diff --git a/grails-shell/src/main/groovy/org/grails/cli/profile/AbstractProfile.groovy b/grails-shell/src/main/groovy/org/grails/cli/profile/AbstractProfile.groovy
index a4bb0abd40b..7152e01dfe5 100644
--- a/grails-shell/src/main/groovy/org/grails/cli/profile/AbstractProfile.groovy
+++ b/grails-shell/src/main/groovy/org/grails/cli/profile/AbstractProfile.groovy
@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ abstract class AbstractProfile implements Profile {
     protected List<String> buildPlugins = []
     protected List<String> buildExcludes = []
     protected List<String> skeletonExcludes = []
+    protected List<String> binaryExtensions = []
+    protected List<String> executablePatterns = []
     protected final List<Command> internalCommands = []
     protected List<String> buildMerge = null
     protected List<Feature> features = []
@@ -203,14 +205,36 @@ abstract class AbstractProfile implements Profile {
         this.buildMerge = (List<String>)navigableConfig.get("build.merge", null)
         this.parentTargetFolder = (String)navigableConfig.get("skeleton.parent.target", null)
         this.skeletonExcludes = (List<String>)navigableConfig.get("skeleton.excludes", [])
+        this.binaryExtensions = (List<String>)navigableConfig.get("skeleton.binaryExtensions", [])
+        this.executablePatterns = (List<String>)navigableConfig.get("skeleton.executable", [])
     }
 
     String getDescription() {
-        return description
+        description
     }
 
     String getInstructions() {
-        return instructions
+        instructions
+    }
+
+    Set<String> getBinaryExtensions() {
+        Set<String> calculatedBinaryExtensions = []
+        def parents = getExtends()
+        for(profile in parents) {
+            calculatedBinaryExtensions.addAll(profile.binaryExtensions)
+        }
+        calculatedBinaryExtensions.addAll(binaryExtensions)
+        return calculatedBinaryExtensions
+    }
+
+    Set<String> getExecutablePatterns() {
+        Set<String> calculatedExecutablePatterns = []
+        def parents = getExtends()
+        for(profile in parents) {
+            calculatedExecutablePatterns.addAll(profile.executablePatterns)
+        }
+        calculatedExecutablePatterns.addAll(executablePatterns)
+        return calculatedExecutablePatterns
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/grails-shell/src/main/groovy/org/grails/cli/profile/Profile.java b/grails-shell/src/main/groovy/org/grails/cli/profile/Profile.java
index 3c3e8eea880..b373b3eb802 100644
--- a/grails-shell/src/main/groovy/org/grails/cli/profile/Profile.java
+++ b/grails-shell/src/main/groovy/org/grails/cli/profile/Profile.java
@@ -21,9 +21,8 @@
 import org.grails.io.support.Resource;
 
 import java.io.File;
-import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.List;
-import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
 
 /**
  * A Profile defines an active code generation and command execution policy. For example the "web" profile allows
@@ -51,6 +50,15 @@ public interface Profile {
      */
     String getDescription();
 
+    /**
+     * @return The list of file extensions which should be treated as binary
+     */
+    Set<String> getBinaryExtensions();
+
+    /**
+     * @return The list of file patterns which should be executable in the resulting application
+     */
+    Set<String> getExecutablePatterns();
 
     /**
      * @return Text to display after an application has been created with the profile
diff --git a/grails-shell/src/main/groovy/org/grails/cli/profile/commands/CreateAppCommand.groovy b/grails-shell/src/main/groovy/org/grails/cli/profile/commands/CreateAppCommand.groovy
index 5cf01fb148d..02c8aa1567d 100644
--- a/grails-shell/src/main/groovy/org/grails/cli/profile/commands/CreateAppCommand.groovy
+++ b/grails-shell/src/main/groovy/org/grails/cli/profile/commands/CreateAppCommand.groovy
@@ -67,7 +67,6 @@ class CreateAppCommand extends ArgumentCompletingCommand implements ProfileRepos
     String groupname
     String defaultpackagename
     File targetDirectory
-    List<String> binaryFileExtensions = ['png','gif','jpg','jpeg','ico','icns','pdf','zip','jar','class']
 
     CommandDescription description = new CommandDescription(name, "Creates an application", "create-app [NAME] --profile=web")
 
@@ -276,7 +275,7 @@ class CreateAppCommand extends ArgumentCompletingCommand implements ProfileRepos
                 appendFeatureFiles(skeletonDir)
 
                 if(skeletonDir.exists()) {
-                    copySrcToTarget(ant, skeletonDir, ['**/' + APPLICATION_YML])
+                    copySrcToTarget(ant, skeletonDir, ['**/' + APPLICATION_YML], profileInstance.binaryExtensions)
                 }
             }
 
@@ -583,8 +582,7 @@ class CreateAppCommand extends ArgumentCompletingCommand implements ProfileRepos
             def tmpDir = unzipProfile(ant, skeletonResource)
             skeletonDir = new File(tmpDir, "META-INF/grails-profile/skeleton")
         }
-        copySrcToTarget(ant, skeletonDir, excludes)
-
+        copySrcToTarget(ant, skeletonDir, excludes, profile.binaryExtensions)
 
         Set<File> sourceBuildGradles = findAllFilesByName(skeletonDir, BUILD_GRADLE)
 
@@ -610,12 +608,11 @@ class CreateAppCommand extends ArgumentCompletingCommand implements ProfileRepos
             }
         }
 
-        ant.chmod(dir: targetDirectory, includes: "**/gradlew*", perm: 'u+x')
-        ant.chmod(dir: targetDirectory, includes: "**/grailsw*", perm: 'u+x')
+        ant.chmod(dir: targetDirectory, includes: profile.executablePatterns.join(' '), perm: 'u+x')
     }
 
     @CompileDynamic
-    protected void copySrcToTarget(GrailsConsoleAntBuilder ant, File srcDir, List excludes) {
+    protected void copySrcToTarget(GrailsConsoleAntBuilder ant, File srcDir, List excludes, Set<String> binaryFileExtensions) {
         ant.copy(todir: targetDirectory, overwrite: true, encoding: 'UTF-8') {
             fileSet(dir: srcDir, casesensitive: false) {
                 exclude(name: '**/.gitkeep')