diff --git a/plugin/build.gradle b/plugin/build.gradle
index cf773101..a2347bb5 100644
--- a/plugin/build.gradle
+++ b/plugin/build.gradle
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ group = "org.grails.plugins"
 
 apply plugin: 'groovy'
 apply plugin: 'java-library'
+
 apply plugin: 'org.grails.grails-plugin'
 
 dependencies {
@@ -41,7 +42,5 @@ dependencies {
 apply from: rootProject.layout.projectDirectory.file('gradle/java-config.gradle')
 apply from: rootProject.layout.projectDirectory.file('gradle/test-config.gradle')
 
-// groovy docs will be generated by the docs project
-tasks.withType(Groovydoc).configureEach {
-    enabled = false
-}
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+// While the aggregated groovydoc will be generated for the project documentation, we must still leave the groovydoc
+// task for this project enabled so the javadoc is generated and included in the published javadoc jar file
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diff --git a/plugin/grails-app/conf/application.yml b/plugin/grails-app/conf/application.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 05860d38..00000000
--- a/plugin/grails-app/conf/application.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,99 +0,0 @@
----
-grails:
-    profile: web-plugin
-    codegen:
-        defaultPackage: cache
-    gorm:
-        reactor:
-            # Whether to translate GORM events into Reactor events
-            # Disabled by default for performance reasons
-            events: false
-info:
-    app:
-        name: '@info.app.name@'
-        version: '@info.app.version@'
-        grailsVersion: '@info.app.grailsVersion@'
-spring:
-    jmx:
-        unique-names: true
-    main:
-        banner-mode: "off"
-    groovy:
-        template:
-            check-template-location: false
-    devtools:
-        restart:
-            exclude:
-                - grails-app/views/**
-                - grails-app/i18n/**
-                - grails-app/conf/**
-management:
-    endpoints:
-        enabled-by-default: false
-
----
-grails:
-    mime:
-        disable:
-            accept:
-                header:
-                    userAgents:
-                        - Gecko
-                        - WebKit
-                        - Presto
-                        - Trident
-        types:
-            all: '*/*'
-            atom: application/atom+xml
-            css: text/css
-            csv: text/csv
-            form: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
-            html:
-              - text/html
-              - application/xhtml+xml
-            js: text/javascript
-            json:
-              - application/json
-              - text/json
-            multipartForm: multipart/form-data
-            pdf: application/pdf
-            rss: application/rss+xml
-            text: text/plain
-            hal:
-              - application/hal+json
-              - application/hal+xml
-            xml:
-              - text/xml
-              - application/xml
-    urlmapping:
-        cache:
-            maxsize: 1000
-    controllers:
-        defaultScope: singleton
-    converters:
-        encoding: UTF-8
-    views:
-        default:
-            codec: html
-        gsp:
-            encoding: UTF-8
-            htmlcodec: xml
-            codecs:
-                expression: html
-                scriptlets: html
-                taglib: none
-                staticparts: none
-endpoints:
-    jmx:
-        unique-names: true
----
-environments:
-    test:
-        grails:
-            cache:
-                cacheManager: GrailsConcurrentLinkedMapCacheManager
-                caches:
-                    foo:
-                        maxCapacity: 100
-                    bar:
-                        maxCapacity: 200
diff --git a/plugin/grails-app/conf/logback.xml b/plugin/grails-app/conf/logback.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index f4e77836..00000000
--- a/plugin/grails-app/conf/logback.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<configuration>
-
-    <conversionRule conversionWord="clr" converterClass="org.springframework.boot.logging.logback.ColorConverter" />
-    <conversionRule conversionWord="wex" converterClass="org.springframework.boot.logging.logback.WhitespaceThrowableProxyConverter" />
-
-    <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
-        <encoder>
-            <charset>UTF-8</charset>
-            <pattern>'%clr(%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS}){faint} %clr(%5p) %clr(---){faint} %clr([%15.15t]){faint} %clr(%-40.40logger{39}){cyan} %clr(:){faint} %m%n%wex'</pattern>
-        </encoder>
-    </appender>
-
-    <root level="error">
-        <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
-    </root>
-</configuration>
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diff --git a/plugin/grails-app/init/cache/Application.groovy b/plugin/grails-app/init/cache/Application.groovy
deleted file mode 100644
index 14bf6ea9..00000000
--- a/plugin/grails-app/init/cache/Application.groovy
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-package cache
-
-import grails.boot.*
-import grails.boot.config.GrailsAutoConfiguration
-import grails.plugins.metadata.*
-
-@PluginSource
-class Application extends GrailsAutoConfiguration {
-    static void main(String[] args) {
-        GrailsApp.run(Application, args)
-    }
-}