If there is a third-party Spring Boot application dependency (or Spring Boot sub-project in a multi-project Gradle build) that has its own database tables, how can Grails create those tables when the application starts up?

doesn’t database migration plugin do this job?

That's one option we are looking into. I wanted to see if anyone had other ideas.

@Mike Saubier Use @EntityScan to search the classpath, similar to @ComponentScan

There is also flyway.