It appears as if you have to do a recompile from Netbeans - then the reload takes effect
[From my recollection using grails you just needed to save the file, and then it got reloaded]
> The grails support in gfv3 prelude does not appear to
> support reloading of Grails controllers.
>
> .gsp and jsp reload fine - but not groovy code. I
> tried this from the shell (grails run-app) as well as
> Netbeans.
>
> Is this a known issue?
>
> Thx
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