diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 74133a7..b944e9a 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,22 +1,16 @@
-.DS_Store
-target
-target/**/*
-web-app/WEB-INF/classes
-web-app/WEB-INF/classes/**/*
-web-app/WEB-INF/tld/*.tld
-web-app/WEB-INF/tld/**/*
-*.log
-*.iws
-*.ipr
-.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs
 *.iml
-.idea
-.idea/**/*
-out/
+*.ipr
+*.iws
+*.log
 *.sha1
-plugin.xml
 *en_PS.properties
-test/test-restful-api/web-app/css/**-rtl.css
-/plugin.xml
+.DS_Store
+.idea
+.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs
 .vagrant
+out
+plugin.xml
+target
+test/test-restful-api/web-app/css/**-rtl.css
 Vagrantfile
+web-app
diff --git a/RestfulApiGrailsPlugin.groovy b/RestfulApiGrailsPlugin.groovy
index 389b9f6..d38d576 100644
--- a/RestfulApiGrailsPlugin.groovy
+++ b/RestfulApiGrailsPlugin.groovy
@@ -26,11 +26,6 @@ class RestfulApiGrailsPlugin {
 
     def version = "1.0.0"
     def grailsVersion = "2.2.0 > *"
-    def pluginExcludes = [
-        "grails-app/views/**",
-        "web-app/**"
-    ]
-
     def title = "RESTful API Plugin"
     def author = "Charles Hardt, Shane Riddell"
     def authorEmail = "shane_riddell@icloud.com"
@@ -63,4 +58,3 @@ class RestfulApiGrailsPlugin {
         restfulApiController.init()
     }
 }
-
diff --git a/application.properties b/application.properties
index 1790b89..4b63cf1 100644
--- a/application.properties
+++ b/application.properties
@@ -1,3 +1 @@
-#Grails Metadata file
-#Thu Aug 29 17:38:32 EDT 2013
 app.grails.version=2.2.1
diff --git a/grails-app/conf/BuildConfig.groovy b/grails-app/conf/BuildConfig.groovy
index 91008f4..00dddc7 100644
--- a/grails-app/conf/BuildConfig.groovy
+++ b/grails-app/conf/BuildConfig.groovy
@@ -18,18 +18,17 @@ grails.project.work.dir = 'target'
 
 grails.project.dependency.resolution = {
     inherits 'global'
-    log "warn" // log level of Ivy resolver, either 'error', 'warn', 'info', 'debug' or 'verbose'
+    log "warn"
     repositories {
         grailsCentral()
         mavenCentral()
     }
     dependencies {
-        // specify dependencies here under either 'build', 'compile', 'runtime', 'test' or 'provided' scopes eg.
         test "org.spockframework:spock-grails-support:0.7-groovy-2.0"
     }
 
     plugins {
-        build(":release:2.2.1") {
+        build(":release:3.1.2", ':rest-client-builder:2.1.1') {
             export = false
         }
         compile(":inflector:0.2",
diff --git a/grails-app/controllers/net/hedtech/restfulapi/RestfulApiController.groovy b/grails-app/controllers/net/hedtech/restfulapi/RestfulApiController.groovy
index 20cb994..6ebfb1d 100644
--- a/grails-app/controllers/net/hedtech/restfulapi/RestfulApiController.groovy
+++ b/grails-app/controllers/net/hedtech/restfulapi/RestfulApiController.groovy
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ class RestfulApiController {
     private ExtractorAdapter extractorAdapter = new DefaultExtractorAdapter()
 
     private HandlerRegistry<Throwable,ExceptionHandler> handlerConfig = new DefaultHandlerRegistry<Throwable,ExceptionHandler>()
-    def localizingClosure = { mapToLocalize -> this.message( mapToLocalize ) }
+    private localizingClosure = { mapToLocalize -> this.message( mapToLocalize ) }
     private Localizer localizer = new Localizer(localizingClosure)
 
     // Custom headers (may be configured within Config.groovy)
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ class RestfulApiController {
 
     // GET /api/pluralizedResourceName
     //
-    public def list() {
+    def list() {
 
         log.trace "list invoked for ${params.pluralizedResourceName} - request_id=${request.request_id}"
         try {
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ class RestfulApiController {
 
     // GET /api/pluralizedResourceName/id
     //
-    public def show() {
+    def show() {
         log.trace "show() invoked for ${params.pluralizedResourceName}/${params.id} - request_id=${request.request_id}"
         try {
             checkMethod( Methods.SHOW )
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ class RestfulApiController {
 
     // POST /api/pluralizedResourceName
     //
-    public def create() {
+    def create() {
         log.trace "create() invoked for ${params.pluralizedResourceName} - request_id=${request.request_id}"
         def result
 
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ class RestfulApiController {
 
     // PUT/PATCH /api/pluralizedResourceName/id
     //
-    public def update() {
+    def update() {
         log.trace "update() invoked for ${params.pluralizedResourceName}/${params.id} - request_id=${request.request_id}"
         def result
 
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ class RestfulApiController {
 
     // DELETE /api/pluralizedResourceName/id
     //
-    public def delete() {
+    def delete() {
         log.trace "delete() invoked for ${params.pluralizedResourceName}/${params.id} - request_id=${request.request_id}"
         try {
             checkMethod( Methods.DELETE )
diff --git a/web-app/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml b/web-app/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 69fbef3..0000000
--- a/web-app/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
-       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-       xsi:schemaLocation="
-http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd">
-
-	<bean id="grailsApplication" class="org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.GrailsApplicationFactoryBean">
-		<description>Grails application factory bean</description>
-		<property name="grailsDescriptor" value="/WEB-INF/grails.xml" />
-		<property name="grailsResourceLoader" ref="grailsResourceLoader" />
-	</bean>
-
-	<bean id="pluginManager" class="org.codehaus.groovy.grails.plugins.GrailsPluginManagerFactoryBean">
-		<description>A bean that manages Grails plugins</description>
-		<property name="grailsDescriptor" value="/WEB-INF/grails.xml" />
-		<property name="application" ref="grailsApplication" />
-	</bean>
-
-	<bean id="grailsConfigurator" class="org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.spring.GrailsRuntimeConfigurator">
-		<constructor-arg>
-			<ref bean="grailsApplication" />
-		</constructor-arg>
-		<property name="pluginManager" ref="pluginManager" />
-	</bean>
-
-	<bean id="grailsResourceLoader" class="org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.GrailsResourceLoaderFactoryBean" />
-
-	<bean id="characterEncodingFilter" class="org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter">
-		<property name="encoding">
-			<value>utf-8</value>
-		</property>
-	</bean>
-</beans>
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diff --git a/web-app/WEB-INF/sitemesh.xml b/web-app/WEB-INF/sitemesh.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 72399ce..0000000
--- a/web-app/WEB-INF/sitemesh.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-<sitemesh>
-    <page-parsers>
-        <parser content-type="text/html"
-            class="org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.sitemesh.GrailsHTMLPageParser" />
-        <parser content-type="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"
-            class="org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.sitemesh.GrailsHTMLPageParser" />
-        <parser content-type="text/html;charset=UTF-8"
-            class="org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.sitemesh.GrailsHTMLPageParser" />
-    </page-parsers>
-
-    <decorator-mappers>
-        <mapper class="org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.sitemesh.GrailsLayoutDecoratorMapper" />
-    </decorator-mappers>
-</sitemesh>
\ No newline at end of file