I know that using Class.forName
to load a grails domain class does not work, but I'm not sure why that is. I'm guessing there is some sort of grails magic happening but it would be nice to understand what it is.
I ended up using
GrailsDomainClass dc = grailsApplication.getDomainClass('mypack.myclass' )
def newDomainObject = dc.clazz.newInstance()
But I'm not sure why just doing Class.forName('mypack.myclass')
doesn't work.