Upgrading grails from 2.1.1 to 2.4.3

Question 1

Upgrading grails from 2.1.1 to 2.4.3

grails upgrade grails-2.4

user955732 · Sep 20, 2014 · Viewed 7.3k times · Source

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I was able to resolve the issue by creating a new 2.4 grails project and copying the applicationContext.xml file from it into my existing project.

Question 2

I am upgrading a grails app from 2.1.1 to 2.4.3 and solving errors along the upgrade is a never ending story.

Now I am stuck at this point.

Any ideas how to solve this?

Thanks!

C:\workspace\grails_apps\monitoring>grails run-app

| Running Grails application
| Error 2014-09-20 17:36:55,136 [localhost-startStop-1] ERROR context.ContextLoader  - Context initialization failed
Message: Error creating bean with name 'grailsApplication' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'grailsResourceLoader' while setting bean property 'grailsResourceLoader'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.CannotLoadBeanClassException: Cannot find class [org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.GrailsResourceLoaderFactoryBean] for bean with name 'grailsResourceLoader' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/appli
cationContext.xml]; nested exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.GrailsResourceLoaderFactoryBean
    Line | Method
->>  334 | innerRun  in java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
|    166 | run       in java.util.concurrent.FutureTask
|   1145 | runWorker in java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor
|    615 | run       in java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker
^    722 | run . . . in java.lang.Thread

Caused by CannotLoadBeanClassException: Cannot find class [org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.GrailsResourceLoaderFactoryBean] for bean with name 'grailsResourceLoader' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]; nested exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.GrailsResourceLoaderFactoryBean
->>  334 | innerRun  in java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
|    166 | run       in java.util.concurrent.FutureTask
|   1145 | runWorker in java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor
|    615 | run       in java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker
^    722 | run . . . in java.lang.Thread

Caused by ClassNotFoundException: org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.GrailsResourceLoaderFactoryBean
->>   59 | findClass in org.grails.plugins.tomcat.ParentDelegatingClassLoader
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
|    423 | loadClass in java.lang.ClassLoader
|    356 | loadClass in     ''
|    334 | innerRun  in java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync
|    166 | run . . . in java.util.concurrent.FutureTask
|   1145 | runWorker in java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor
|    615 | run . . . in java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker
^    722 | run       in java.lang.Thread
| Error 2014-09-20 17:36:55,270 [localhost-startStop-1] ERROR context.GrailsContextLoaderListener  - Error initializing the application: Error creating bean with name 'grailsApplication' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'grailsResourceLoader' while setting bean property 'grailsResourceLoader'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.CannotLoadBeanClassException: Cannot find class [org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commo
ns.GrailsResourceLoaderFactoryBean] for bean with name 'grailsResourceLoader' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]; nested exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.GrailsResourceLoaderFactoryBean
Message: Error creating bean with name 'grailsApplication' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'grailsResourceLoader' while setting bean property 'grailsResourceLoader'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.CannotLoadBeanClassException: Cannot find class [org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.GrailsResourceLoaderFactoryBean] for bean with name 'grailsResourceLoader' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/appli
cationContext.xml]; nested exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.GrailsResourceLoaderFactoryBean
    Line | Method
->>  334 | innerRun  in java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
|    166 | run       in java.util.concurrent.FutureTask
|   1145 | runWorker in java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor
|    615 | run       in java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker
^    722 | run . . . in java.lang.Thread

Caused by CannotLoadBeanClassException: Cannot find class [org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.GrailsResourceLoaderFactoryBean] for bean with name 'grailsResourceLoader' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]; nested exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.GrailsResourceLoaderFactoryBean
->>  334 | innerRun  in java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
|    166 | run       in java.util.concurrent.FutureTask
|   1145 | runWorker in java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor
|    615 | run       in java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker
^    722 | run . . . in java.lang.Thread

Caused by ClassNotFoundException: org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.GrailsResourceLoaderFactoryBean
->>   59 | findClass in org.grails.plugins.tomcat.ParentDelegatingClassLoader
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
|    423 | loadClass in java.lang.ClassLoader
|    356 | loadClass in     ''
|    334 | innerRun  in java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync
|    166 | run . . . in java.util.concurrent.FutureTask
|   1145 | runWorker in java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor
|    615 | run . . . in java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker
^    722 | run       in java.lang.Thread

BuildConfig.groovy

grails.servlet.version = "2.5" // Change depending on target container compliance (2.5 or 3.0)
grails.server.port.http = 8090
grails.project.class.dir = "target/classes"
grails.project.test.class.dir = "target/test-classes"
grails.project.test.reports.dir = "target/test-reports"
grails.project.target.level = 1.6
grails.project.source.level = 1.6
grails.project.dependency.resolver = "maven" 
//grails.project.war.file = "target/${appName}-${appVersion}.war"

// uncomment (and adjust settings) to fork the JVM to isolate classpaths
//grails.project.fork = [
//   run: [maxMemory:1024, minMemory:64, debug:false, maxPerm:256]
//]

grails.project.dependency.resolution = {
    // inherit Grails' default dependencies
    inherits("global") {
        // specify dependency exclusions here; for example, uncomment this to disable ehcache:
        // excludes 'ehcache'
    }
    log "warn" // log level of Ivy resolver, either 'error', 'warn', 'info', 'debug' or 'verbose'
    checksums true // Whether to verify checksums on resolve
    legacyResolve false // whether to do a secondary resolve on plugin installation, not advised and here for backwards compatibility

    repositories {
        inherits true // Whether to inherit repository definitions from plugins

        grailsPlugins()
        grailsHome()
        grailsCentral()

        mavenLocal()
        mavenCentral()

        // uncomment these (or add new ones) to enable remote dependency resolution from public Maven repositories
        //mavenRepo "http://snapshots.repository.codehaus.org"
        //mavenRepo "http://repository.codehaus.org"
        //mavenRepo "http://download.java.net/maven/2/"
        //mavenRepo "http://repository.jboss.com/maven2/"
    }

    dependencies {
        // specify dependencies here under either 'build', 'compile', 'runtime', 'test' or 'provided' scopes e.g.

        // runtime 'mysql:mysql-connector-java:5.1.20'


    }

    plugins {
        runtime ":hibernate4:4.3.5.5"
        runtime ":jquery:1.11.1"

        build ":tomcat:7.0.54"

        runtime ":database-migration:1.4.0"

    }

}

Instead of upgrading an existing grails application I tried to create a new application and copy files to the new project. This approach results in a different error.

grails run-app

| Running Grails application
Error occurred during initialization of VM
agent library failed to init: instrument
Error opening zip file or JAR manifest missing : C:\Program%20Files%20(x86)\Grails\grails-2.4.3\lib\org.springframework\springloaded\jars\springloaded-1.2.0.RELEASE.jar
| Error Forked Grails VM exited with error

java version used: 1.7.0_21

GRAILS_HOME=C:\PROGRA~2\grails\grails-2.4.3

GROOVY_HOME=C:\PROGRA~2\Groovy\groovy-2.3.6

Grails version: 2.4.3

What to do now?

Thanks!

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Based on the suggestion below to remove reference to bean 'grailsResourceLoader, I changed the applicationContext.xml accordingly.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd">

    <bean id="grailsApplication" class="org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.GrailsApplicationFactoryBean">
        <description>Grails application factory bean</description>
        <property name="grailsDescriptor" value="/WEB-INF/grails.xml" />
    </bean>

    <bean id="pluginManager" class="org.codehaus.groovy.grails.plugins.GrailsPluginManagerFactoryBean">
        <description>A bean that manages Grails plugins</description>
        <property name="grailsDescriptor" value="/WEB-INF/grails.xml" />
        <property name="application" ref="grailsApplication" />
    </bean>

    <bean id="grailsConfigurator" class="org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.spring.GrailsRuntimeConfigurator">
        <constructor-arg>
            <ref bean="grailsApplication" />
        </constructor-arg>
        <property name="pluginManager" ref="pluginManager" />
    </bean>


    <bean id="characterEncodingFilter" class="org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter">
        <property name="encoding">
            <value>utf-8</value>
        </property>
    </bean>
</beans>

Unfortunately, the problem remains the same.

| Running Grails application
Error opening zip file or JAR manifest missing : C:\Program%20Files%20(x86)\Grails\grails-2.4.3\lib\org.springframework\springloaded\jars\springloaded-1.2.0.RELEASE.jar
Error occurred during initialization of VM
agent library failed to init: instrument
| Error Forked Grails VM exited with error

Thanks for any further help!!

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Is Java 1.8.0 required for Grails 2.4.3 ?

No it is not, problem is the same even for java 8

Upgrading grails from 2.1.1 to 2.4.3

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