Grails Portal

I have been working on a project that will enable Grails to function as a Portal environment. The article for this is on GroovyMag which is a magazine for Groovy/Grails developers. Here is an excerpt from the Abstract:

This article is the first in a series of three that describes a simple way to build a working framework for a user portal. This framework is built upon some very popular features in Grails and provides many examples of how to integrate popular plug-ins such as JSecurity. This article describes concepts that a novice Grails developer may find challenging.

In the first article, a step-by-step approach will show how to construct the architecture and creating a skeleton set of pages that will be used in articles two and three. By the end of this article the reader will be familiar with using basic Grails concepts to form the basis of a Grails-based portal application.