How to configure Grails 3.1.1 to use Hibernate 5

Question

How do I make Grails 3.1.1 user Hibernate 5?

The following actions report Hibernate version 4.3.11.Final: In Grails 3.1.1

1. grails create-app hello311

Answer 1

In build.gradle change the classpath dependency for the hibernate4 plugin at the top of the file in the buildscript{ dependencies {... section as follows:

classpath "org.grails.plugins:hibernate5:5.0.1"

The classpath section is there for the Gradle scrips like schemaExport, and that section does not support auto versioning.

Change the compile hibernate4 plugin dependency to the following:

compile "org.grails.plugins:hibernate5"

Add the following hibernate-core dependency:

compile "org.hibernate:hibernate-core:5.0.7.Final"

Change the hibernate-ehcache dependency to the 5.0.7.Final version.

compile "org.hibernate:hibernate-ehcache:5.0.7.Final"