applicationContext.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd">

	<bean id="grailsApplication" class="org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.GrailsApplicationFactoryBean">
		<description>Grails application factory bean</description>
		<property name="grailsDescriptor" value="/WEB-INF/grails.xml" />
		<property name="grailsResourceLoader" ref="grailsResourceLoader" />
	</bean>

	<bean id="pluginManager" class="org.codehaus.groovy.grails.plugins.GrailsPluginManagerFactoryBean">
		<description>A bean that manages Grails plugins</description>
		<property name="grailsDescriptor" value="/WEB-INF/grails.xml" />
		<property name="application" ref="grailsApplication" />
	</bean>

	<bean id="grailsConfigurator" class="org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.spring.GrailsRuntimeConfigurator">
		<constructor-arg>
			<ref bean="grailsApplication" />
		</constructor-arg>
		<property name="pluginManager" ref="pluginManager" />
	</bean>

	<bean id="grailsResourceLoader" class="org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.GrailsResourceLoaderFactoryBean" />

	<bean id="characterEncodingFilter" class="org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter">
		<property name="encoding">
			<value>utf-8</value>
		</property>
	</bean>
</beans>