How do you access two databases in Grails

Question

Grails makes it very easy to configure datasources for different environments (development, test, production) in its DataSources.groovy file, but there seems to be no facili

Answer 1

The following post seems to be the best source of information on the subject:

How to get mutli-dataSource in grails

It boils down to:

• Define datasource1 in DevelopmentDataSource
• Define datasource2 in resources.xml
• Write a DAO for CRUD of the domain objects using datasource2
• In hibernate.cfg.xml, list all domain objects.

Only the first datasource will have dynamic finder methods.

If its a really simple query you are after and don't mind not having the ORM features you could use Groovy SQL or the native SQL features of Hibernate.