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Create Grails application from existing code

Last modified: 01 August 2022

If you already have a Grails project, you can create an IntelliJ IDEA Grails Application around its source code. IntelliJ IDEA recognizes the structure and creates the Grails project view.

If you work with Grails 3 then you can simply import your project for the Gradle model since Grails 3 uses the Gradle build system.

For Grails 1 / 2 use the following procedure:

IntelliJ IDEA opens a Grails project with its dedicated structure. At this point if IntelliJ IDEA detects a Gradle build tool inside your project, the popup message suggesting to import the Gradle project will be displayed.