Grails App on tc Server 2.1.2 - java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: AuthenticationSource

[yadepu]

I am developing a simple grails application in STS 2.5.2 and using spring-security and spring-security-ldap plugins.

This application works in STS workspace, I can even authenticate user against the company active directory (LDAP).

But the problem is, after dropping the application war file in tcServer 2.1.2 runtime instance. It fails to start throws below exception.

However I see the org/springframework/ldap/core/AuthenticationSource.class in \WEB-INF\lib\org.springframework.ldap-1.3.0.RELEASE.jar

1. Not sure what could be the problem on tc Server while no issues in STS.
2. Why the tc Server runtime not able to find the AuthenticatinSource class.
3. The class I am seeing in jar file and the class it is looking, are they same ? The exception doesn't show me the package name...

2011-03-11 09:31:23,696 [WrapperSimpleAppMain] INFO  spring.BeanBuilder  - [RuntimeConfiguration] Configuring data source for environment: PRODUCTION
2011-03-11 09:31:24,258 [WrapperSimpleAppMain] ERROR context.ContextLoader  - Context initialization failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.access.BootstrapException: Error executing bootstraps; nested exception is org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerInvocationException: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: AuthenticationSource
	at org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.context.GrailsContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(GrailsContextLoader.java:87)
	at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:197)
	at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:47)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4205)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4704)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:799)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:779)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:623)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:941)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:778)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:504)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1320)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:324)
	at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:142)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1061)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:862)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:463)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:525)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:754)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:595)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414)
	at net.covalent.tomcat.wrapper.ThreadDumpWrapper.main(ThreadDumpWrapper.java:73)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.tanukisoftware.wrapper.WrapperSimpleApp.run(WrapperSimpleApp.java:197)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerInvocationException: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: AuthenticationSource
	at grails.spring.BeanBuilder.invokeBeanDefiningClosure(BeanBuilder.java:723)
	at grails.spring.BeanBuilder.beans(BeanBuilder.java:573)
	at grails.spring.BeanBuilder.invokeMethod(BeanBuilder.java:519)
	at net.covalent.tomcat.wrapper.ThreadDumpWrapper.main(ThreadDumpWrapper.java:73)
	... 2 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: AuthenticationSource
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
	at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
	at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source)
	at SpringSecurityLdapGrailsPlugin$_closure1.class$(SpringSecurityLdapGrailsPlugin.groovy)
	at SpringSecurityLdapGrailsPlugin$_closure1.$get$$class$org$codehaus$groovy$grails$plugins$springsecurity$ldap$SimpleAuthenticationSource(SpringSecurityLdapGrailsPlugin.groovy)
	at SpringSecurityLdapGrailsPlugin$_closure1.doCall(SpringSecurityLdapGrailsPlugin.groovy:77)
	at SpringSecurityLdapGrailsPlugin$_closure1.doCall(SpringSecurityLdapGrailsPlugin.groovy)
	... 6 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: AuthenticationSource
	... 16 more

Please help, Thanks
YA

[Andy Wilkinson]

I'll try an enlist some help from one of our Grails experts.

In the meantime, when you say that things worked fine in STS, which runtime did you have your application deployed to? I'm interested in any possible differences between it and the runtime where it fails.

[mkerry]

Considering the age of this post, I'm hoping that the solution has been found - I'll keep searching the web but thought I'd leave a breadcrumb here in case the original poster would care to share that solution. I'm getting the same type of error, but deploying to WebLogic 10: in STS 2.6.1, 'run-app' works fine (tomcat), and after changing the destdir for classes, 'run-war' (tomcat) also works. BUT when I deploy a WAR locally or on test to WebLogic, I get the NoClassDefFoundError - specifically related to the Spring Security classes (tags, etc.) despite being able to see them in the 'proper' places.

Thank you in advance for any help you can offer!

M. Kerry