I have a few Java/Maven projects that I want to use in a Grails 2.0.4 project. I have tried various approaches, such as: Installing the JAR files in my local maven repository, and executing grails install-dependency com.foo:my-project:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT Copying the JAR files into the lib folder of grails. Adding compile com.foo:my-project:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT to the dependencies section of BuildConfig.groovy Uncommenting mavenLocal() and passing