Clean Up With Alternatives

With alternative database frameworks, like Groovy Sql, MyBatis, JdbcTemplate, we do not need some GORM libraries, like hibernate, let's remove them and maybe exclude some others.

Before you start excluding and removing dependencies, let's run grails dependency-report compile command to see what libraries are loaded for compile scope.

Step 1

Remove runtime ":hibernate4:4.x" or runtime ":hibernate:3.x" from BuildConfig.groovy.

Step 2

Add exclude for grails-plugin-databinding in BuildConfig.groovy.

grails.project.dependency.resolution = {
    inherits("global") {
        'grails-plugin-databinding'
    }