Grails, routing plugin and GORM

I's been brought to my attention today that it is possible that Camel routes start sooner than some of the other services in Grails (GORM in particular). This leads to issues like missing methods in domain classes. To get around this problem you can do as follows:

In your route definition add the .noAutoStartup() part like this:

from('direct:foo').routeId('myRoute').noAutoStartup()....

In BootStrap.groovy's init closure add the following code:

import org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.context.*
[...]
def ctx = ServletContextHolder.servletContext.getAttribute(GrailsApplicationAttributes.APPLICATION_CONTEXT)
ctx.camelContext.startRoute('myRoute')

This will give you the possibility to start and even stop a route anytime you want.

You can read more on this topic on fusesource.com.

I hope this will help someone :)