16.1. Creating your first plugin

You always have to start somewhere, and developing a Grails plugin is no different. In this section, we’ll create a project for our security plugin and lay the first bricks. In this case, that means adding some artifacts, much as we do when creating a new Grails application.

16.1.1. Are you sure it’s not an application?

So how do we go about creating a plugin project? That’s easy—we start with a magic incantation: