diff --git a/gradle-plugin/build.gradle b/gradle-plugin/build.gradle
index 1c75f55d9..97729c826 100644
--- a/gradle-plugin/build.gradle
+++ b/gradle-plugin/build.gradle
@@ -13,12 +13,7 @@ dependencies {
     // the gradle api is provided by java-gradle-plugin
 
     implementation platform(libs.grails.bom)
-    implementation libs.grails.bootstrap, {
-        // grails-bootstrap leaks groovy-xml which is a problem for Gradle (version conflict)
-        exclude group: 'org.codehaus.groovy', module: 'groovy-xml'
-    }
     implementation libs.grails.gradle.plugin
-    implementation libs.spring.boot.gradle.plugin
     implementation libs.jakarta.annotation.api
 
     compileOnly libs.groovy.core // @CompileStatic
diff --git a/gradle-plugin/src/main/groovy/grails/views/gradle/AbstractGroovyTemplatePlugin.groovy b/gradle-plugin/src/main/groovy/grails/views/gradle/AbstractGroovyTemplatePlugin.groovy
index 2d2acf4f4..56c39b8d7 100644
--- a/gradle-plugin/src/main/groovy/grails/views/gradle/AbstractGroovyTemplatePlugin.groovy
+++ b/gradle-plugin/src/main/groovy/grails/views/gradle/AbstractGroovyTemplatePlugin.groovy
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 package grails.views.gradle
 
-import grails.util.GrailsNameUtils
 import groovy.transform.CompileDynamic
 import groovy.transform.CompileStatic
 import org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.condition.Os
@@ -15,8 +14,6 @@ import org.gradle.api.tasks.bundling.Jar
 import org.grails.gradle.plugin.core.GrailsExtension
 import org.grails.gradle.plugin.core.IntegrationTestGradlePlugin
 import org.grails.gradle.plugin.util.SourceSets
-import org.springframework.boot.gradle.plugin.ResolveMainClassName
-import org.springframework.boot.gradle.plugin.SpringBootPlugin
 
 /**
  * Abstract implementation of a plugin that compiles views
@@ -75,14 +72,14 @@ class AbstractGroovyTemplatePlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
         templateCompileTask.packageName.set(project.name)
         templateCompileTask.setSource(project.file("${project.projectDir}/$pathToSource"))
         templateCompileTask.dependsOn(tasks.named('classes').get())
-        project.plugins.withType(SpringBootPlugin).configureEach {plugin ->
+        project.plugins.withId('org.springframework.boot') {
             tasks.withType(Jar).configureEach { Task task ->
                 if (task.name in ['jar', 'bootJar', 'war', 'bootWar']) {
                     task.dependsOn(templateCompileTask)
                 }
             }
-            tasks.withType(ResolveMainClassName).configureEach {
-                it.dependsOn(templateCompileTask)
+            tasks.named('resolveMainClassName').configure { Task task ->
+                task.dependsOn(templateCompileTask)
             }
         }
         project.plugins.withType(IntegrationTestGradlePlugin).configureEach {
diff --git a/gradle-plugin/src/main/groovy/grails/views/gradle/GrailsNameUtils.groovy b/gradle-plugin/src/main/groovy/grails/views/gradle/GrailsNameUtils.groovy
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..84f764cd2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gradle-plugin/src/main/groovy/grails/views/gradle/GrailsNameUtils.groovy
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+package grails.views.gradle
+
+import groovy.transform.CompileStatic
+
+/**
+ * This class is copying some methods from GrailsNameUtils in grails-bootstrap.
+ * This is done to avoid a dependency on grails-bootstrap.
+ * GrailsNameUtils in grails-bootstrap is probably a candidate for moving to a future "grails-common" module.
+ */
+@CompileStatic
+class GrailsNameUtils {
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the class name for the given logical name and trailing name. For example "person" and "Controller" would evaluate to "PersonController"
+     *
+     * @param logicalName The logical name
+     * @param trailingName The trailing name
+     * @return The class name
+     */
+    static String getClassName(String logicalName, String trailingName) {
+        if (isBlank(logicalName)) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException('Argument [logicalName] cannot be null or blank');
+        }
+
+        String className = logicalName.substring(0,1).toUpperCase(Locale.ENGLISH) + logicalName.substring(1);
+        if (trailingName != null) {
+            className = className + trailingName;
+        }
+        return className;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Return the class name for the given logical name. For example "person" would evaluate to "Person"
+     *
+     * @param logicalName The logical name
+     * @return The class name
+     */
+    static String getClassName(String logicalName) {
+        return getClassName(logicalName, '');
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * <p>Determines whether a given string is <code>null</code>, empty,
+     * or only contains whitespace. If it contains anything other than
+     * whitespace then the string is not considered to be blank and the
+     * method returns <code>false</code>.</p>
+     * <p>We could use Commons Lang for this, but we don't want GrailsNameUtils
+     * to have a dependency on any external library to minimise the number of
+     * dependencies required to bootstrap Grails.</p>
+     * @param str The string to test.
+     * @return <code>true</code> if the string is <code>null</code>, or
+     * blank.
+     */
+    static boolean isBlank(String str) {
+        return str == null || str.trim().isEmpty();
+    }
+
+}
+