Grails auto-recompilation not working for bigger projects

Question

I have issues running grails using

grails

> run-app

If I change a controller file in a new project, I see those messages all the time:

Compiling 1 source files...

But as soon as i install spring security plugin, recompilation works only very rare. I assume its to do with my windows system, because I do NOT have any issues on regular linux machines (with the same project!). Do you have any ideas why auto-recompilation on windows could not work?

My setup:

• Windows 7 64bit
• JDK - tried all kind of versions, e.g. 1.6.0_25
• Solid state disk
• GRAILS_OPTS: -XX:MaxPermSize=1G -Xmx4G -server

Answer 1

This is directly related to the following issue http://jira.grails.org/browse/GRAILS-8914.

Let's wait for grails 2.0.2.

Answer 2

could be something wrong with your grails setup.

try to perform

clean - compile

after that, try to run grails with

run-app --stacktrace --verbose

and give me the result