The default plugins are as follows:

• war - The changes the packaging so that Gradle creates as WAR file from your application. You can comment out this plugin if you wish to create only a runnable JAR file for standalone deployment.

• asset-pipeline - The asset pipeline plugin enables the compilation of static assets (JavaScript, CSS etc.)

• org.grails.grails-gsp - The Grails GSP plugin adds precompilation of GSP files for production deployments.

• org.grails.grails-doc - A plugin for Gradle for using Grails 2.0’s documentation engine.

• - A plugin for publishing Grails plugins to the central repository.

• org.grails.grails-profile - A plugin for use when creating Grails .