(Quick Reference)
                services
Purpose
The 
services plugin configures Grails' support for 
Services.
Examples
An example service class in the 
grails-app/services directory:
class BookService {
    Book[] getBooks() {
        Book.list() as Book[]
    }
}Description
Refer to the section on 
Services in the Grails user guide which details Grails' services.
Configured Spring Beans given a service class of 
BookService:
- BookServiceServiceClass- The GrailsServiceClass instance which implements the conventions defined within a services class.
- BookService- A bean configured according to the scope of the service: if the service is transactional then the type of the actual bean definition will be a TransactionProxyFactoryBean.