Mastering Grails, Grails and legacy databases
Can convention over configuration survive unconventional databases schemas?
From the developerWorks archives
Date archived: April 19, 2017 | First published: July 15, 2008
In this Mastering Grails installment, Scott Davis explores the various ways that Grails can use database tables that don't conform to the Grails naming standard. If you have Java™ classes that already map to your legacy databases, Grails allows you to use them unchanged. You'll see examples that use Hibernate HBM files and Enterprise JavaBeans 3 annotations with legacy Java classes.
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