Hello fellow grail seekers
Searching for a hosting provider for my Grails app, I stumbled upon http://grails.org/Hosting with info on providers, that should support Grails apps.

I looked at the provider eatj.com. They have a free trial signup, so I created an account to try them out.

But I am getting an error when their tomcat server attempts to start my app:

Code:
INFO: Deploying web application archive ROOT.war

log4j:ERROR Error initializing log4j: null

java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError

at org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.util.Log4jConfigListener.contextInitialized(Log4jConfigListener.java:54)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3830)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4337)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.access$000(ContainerBase.java:123)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$PrivilegedAddChild.run(ContainerBase.java:145)

at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:769)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:525)

at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:825)

at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:714)

at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:490)

at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1138)

at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311)

at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:117)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:719)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:516)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710)

at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:566)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)

at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:288)

at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413)

Caused by: java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.lang.RuntimePermission getProtectionDomain)

at java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(AccessControlContext.java:323)

at java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(AccessController.java:546)

at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(SecurityManager.java:532)

at java.lang.Class.getProtectionDomain(Class.java:2106)

at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.ClassLoaderForClassArtifacts.define(ClassLoaderForClassArtifacts.java:42)

at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.ClassLoaderForClassArtifacts$1.run(ClassLoaderForClassArtifacts.java:86)

at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.ClassLoaderForClassArtifacts$1.run(ClassLoaderForClassArtifacts.java:84)

at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)

at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.ClassLoaderForClassArtifacts.defineClassAndGetConstructor(ClassLoaderForClassArtifacts.java:84)

at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteGenerator.compileStaticMethod(CallSiteGenerator.java:239)

at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedMethod.createStaticMetaMethodSite(CachedMethod.java:268)

at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.StaticMetaMethodSite.createStaticMetaMethodSite(StaticMetaMethodSite.java:111)

at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.createStaticSite(MetaClassImpl.java:3008)

at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.createCallStaticSite(CallSiteArray.java:59)

at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.createCallSite(CallSiteArray.java:144)

at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCall(CallSiteArray.java:40)

at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:117)

at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:125)

at org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.cfg.ConfigurationHelper.(ConfigurationHelper.groovy:35)

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This is not happening when I deploy the war file to a local tomcat. Given the AccessControlException, I suspect it is their java security policy file that have too strict settings for groovy to run?

Does anyone have experience with eatj.com and Grails apps? Have you managed to get your application to run on their server?

Best regards,
Søren

- Oh, and I'm on Grails 1.3.4 btw