Better Templating for Grails

For all the things I love about Grails I do have one small issue and this isn't really even a Grails specific problem. GSP changes re开发者_JS百科quire redeployments of the entire web application. I'm not talking about adding new dynamic data or major changes. These generally requires server side changes as well anyway.

But I'm talking about smaller changes like flipping the position of a couple of elements or modifying some simple static text on the page. So my question is, what are some patterns used or plugins, etc that allow minor changes to GSP's without redeploying the entire application? How can I make Grails template/GSP's more like templates and less requiring compiling?

I'm also possibly looking for something more designer friendly.

grails.gsp.view.dir, I think.

A trick to remember: add trailing slash and remember that grails-app/views will be added to it.

There is a Grails Plugin for using FreeMarker templates as views (I have not used this plugin myself). It is not listed as SpringSource supported, but I think the author is one the core grails devs and the plugin is based on a relatively new version of FreeMarker.