Grapestry progress and wishlist

I've been making some progress in making the Grapestry Grails plugin more integrated into Grails. Overall, it hasn't been quite a walk in the park, mostly due to the way Tapestry works. Here are a couple of things that would really be nice-to-have before Grapestry can really be usable as a Grails plugin:

1. Tapestry templates (pages and components) should show up directly under the grails-app/views directory. Overall, the idea is that that's where Grails GSPs typically show up, and it would be most natural for Grapestry to do the same


2. Tapestry page and component classes should live directly under grails-app/controllers. Overall, in Grails, the controllers are what process the requests. Since the page and component classes have the corresponding duty in Tapestry, so it would make sense to keep them there


3. Since Grails emphasizes convention over configuration, creating pages should default to no page specification files. Everything that a page spec does should be accomplished using annotations (totally acceptable in regular Tapestry)


4. Add groovy scripts and templates that would set up a default page template and page classes, e.g. something like 'grails create-grapestry-page' and 'grails create-grapestry-component'


5. Add scaffolding similar to the one that exists in Grails controllers. It seems totally possible that there could be default methods like 'list', 'edit', etc on a grapestry page that would do the equivalent job of the Grails controllers with dynamic or static scaffolding


6. Have some NetBeans support (hopefully coming in NetBeans 6.0) for Grails and Tapestry to make editing the Tapestry components in Groovy at least on par with doing them in Java

I did make some progress in accomplishing the first couple of bullets above. I kinda thought I had that down; however, it turns out that the "Development" grails configuration doesn't quite obey the same rules (it uses some resouce loaders that load resources directly from the ${app_dir}/grails-app/view and controllers directory), so I'm working on some workarounds for that.

Just yesterday, I got the Grails plugin account, but I still need to take a look at a standard grails plugin structure before I put anything out there.