java.lang.LinkageError: loader constraint violation in Grails project

Đinh Hồng Châu picture Đinh Hồng Châu · May 23, 2011 · Viewed 13.1k times · Source

I've built a Grails project with POI (include poi-3.7 and poi-ooxml-3.7). I've added these 2 external libraries to dependencies block in BuildConfig.groovy file of my project. There's nothing strange when I compiled it. But when I called the command "run-app" for that project, an error occured with below stacktrace:

Base Directory: <path-to-my-project>
Resolving dependencies...
Dependencies resolved in 5546ms.
Running script D:\_TOOLS\STS\grails-1.3.5\scripts\RunApp.groovy
Environment set to development
Running Grails application..
2011-05-23 18:51:01,225 [main] ERROR context.GrailsContextLoader  - Error executing bootstraps: java.lang.LinkageError: loader constraint violation: loader (instance of <bootloader>) previously initiated loading for a different type with name "org/w3c/dom/DOMConfiguration"
org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerInvocationException: java.lang.LinkageError: loader constraint violation: loader (instance of <bootloader>) previously initiated loading for a different type with name "org/w3c/dom/DOMConfiguration"
    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 org.grails.tomcat.TomcatServer.start(TomcatServer.groovy:212)
    at grails.web.container.EmbeddableServer$start.call(Unknown Source)
    at RunApp$_run_closure5_closure12.doCall(RunApp:158)
    at RunApp$_run_closure5_closure12.doCall(RunApp)
    at _GrailsSettings_groovy$_run_closure10.doCall(_GrailsSettings_groovy:280)
    at _GrailsSettings_groovy$_run_closure10.call(_GrailsSettings_groovy)
    at RunApp$_run_closure5.doCall(RunApp:149)
    at RunApp$_run_closure5.call(RunApp)
    at RunApp.runInline(RunApp:116)
    at RunApp.this$4$runInline(RunApp)
    at RunApp$_run_closure1.doCall(RunApp:59)
    at RunApp$_run_closure1.doCall(RunApp:33)
    at gant.Gant$_dispatch_closure5.doCall(Gant.groovy:381)
    at gant.Gant$_dispatch_closure7.doCall(Gant.groovy:415)
    at gant.Gant$_dispatch_closure7.doCall(Gant.groovy)
    at gant.Gant.withBuildListeners(Gant.groovy:427)
    at gant.Gant.this$2$withBuildListeners(Gant.groovy)
    at gant.Gant$this$2$withBuildListeners.callCurrent(Unknown Source)
    at gant.Gant.dispatch(Gant.groovy:415)
    at gant.Gant.this$2$dispatch(Gant.groovy)
    at gant.Gant.invokeMethod(Gant.groovy)
    at gant.Gant.executeTargets(Gant.groovy:590)
    at gant.Gant.executeTargets(Gant.groovy:589)

Caused by: java.lang.LinkageError: loader constraint violation: loader (instance of <bootloader>) previously initiated loading for a different type with name "org/w3c/dom/DOMConfiguration"
    at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
    at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2427)
    at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods(Class.java:1791)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.util.LazyReference.getLocked(LazyReference.java:46)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.util.LazyReference.get(LazyReference.java:33)
    at grails.spring.DynamicElementReader.invokeMethod(DynamicElementReader.groovy:121)
    ... 26 more  

And here is my configuration:

dependencies {  
        provided ('com.oracle:ojdbc6_g:11.2.0.1.0')  
        runtime ('org.apache.poi:poi:3.7', 'org.apache.poi:poi-ooxml:3.7')  
    }  

How can I do to make solve this? Thank you so much!

Answer

ptsw picture ptsw · Aug 11, 2011

Here's the fix we finally came around to after several hours of going back and forth. In short, exclude xmlbeans from poi and create another xmlbeans jar with the offending class removed. Here's the incantation to exorcise the evil linkage error.

  • Modify BuildConfig.groovy

    dependencies {
       compile ('org.apache.poi:poi-ooxml:3.6') {excludes "xmlbeans"}
    }
  • Extract xmlbeans

    cd ~
    mkdir xmlbeantmp
    cd xmlbeantmp
    cp ~/.ivy2/cache/org.apache.xmlbeans/xmlbeans/jars/xmlbeans-2.3.0.jar .
    jar xf xmlbeans-2.3.0.jar

  • Remove offending class package

    cd org
    rm -rf w3c/

  • Recreate the jar

    cd ../
    rm xmlbean-2.3.0.jar
    jar cf xmlbean-2.3.0.jar *

  • Copy jar into your projects lib

    cp xmlbean-2.3.0.jar your_grails_project/lib/.

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