Grails 3.0.1 - Folders missing?

Question

I downloaded Grails 2.4.4 and created a test project (using NetBeans) and it was successful.

I downloaded Grails 3.0.1 and created a test project (using NetBeans) NetBeans says project created successfully but it did not load the project in to project explorer.

I compared Groovy folders of 2.4.4 and 3.0.1 and noticed that few folders are missing in the installation.

I confirmed that I downloaded the correct package.

These are the folders/files missing in Grails 3.0.1

folders conf, doc, plugins, script

files build.properties, readme

Answer 1

Grails 3.0 was a complete re-write of Grails and lots of things have changed. Not the least of which is the folder and file structure. Since Grails 3.0 is based on Spring Boot and Gradle a lot of what was very Grails specific has been removed and replaced with both of these.

This blog entry gives a good amount of detail on what has changed in Grails 3.0. It even talks about directory/file structures.