Difficulty deploying Grails war file to Geronimo

[Ken T.]

I'm trying to deploy a working (but very simple) grails application war
to Geronimo, but with no luck.  I've already made the changes to the
geronimo-web.xml file that were specified online, leaving me this:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/web-1.1"
 xmlns:nam="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/naming-1.1"
 xmlns:sec="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/security-1.1"
 xmlns:sys="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/deployment-1.1">
  <sys:environment>
    <sys:moduleId>
      <sys:groupId>default</sys:groupId>
      <sys:artifactId>TimeTracker</sys:artifactId>
      <sys:version>0.1</sys:version>
      <sys:type>war</sys:type>
    </sys:moduleId>
    <!-- For Grails to work properly we use the "parent-last" strategy :
-->
    <inverse-classloading/>
  </sys:environment>
  <context-root>/TimeTracker</context-root>
  <virtual-host>www.squeakydolphin.com</virtual-host>
</web-app>


The exception I'm getting is this:

Failed to load servlet class
org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.servlet.GrailsDispatcherServlet
org.apache.geronimo.common.DeploymentException: Failed to load servlet
class org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.servlet.GrailsDispatcherServlet
        at
org.apache.geronimo.jaxws.builder.AdvancedWARWebServiceFinder.getPortInfo
(AdvancedWARWebServiceFinder.java:148)
        at
org.apache.geronimo.jaxws.builder.AdvancedWARWebServiceFinder.discoverPOJOWebServices
(AdvancedWARWebServiceFinder.java:125)
        at
org.apache.geronimo.jaxws.builder.AdvancedWARWebServiceFinder.discoverWebServices
(AdvancedWARWebServiceFinder.java:45)
        at
org.apache.geronimo.jaxws.builder.WARWebServiceFinder.discoverWebServices
(WARWebServiceFinder.java:70)
        at
org.apache.geronimo.jaxws.builder.JAXWSServiceBuilder.discoverWebServices
(JAXWSServiceBuilder.java:97)
        at
org.apache.geronimo.jaxws.builder.JAXWSServiceBuilder.findWebServices
(JAXWSServiceBuilder.java:80)
        at
org.apache.geronimo.web25.deployment.AbstractWebModuleBuilder.basicInitContext
(AbstractWebModuleBuilder.java:364)
        at
org.apache.geronimo.jetty6.deployment.JettyModuleBuilder.initContext
(JettyModuleBuilder.java:350)
        at
org.apache.geronimo.j2ee.deployment.SwitchingModuleBuilder.initContext
(SwitchingModuleBuilder.java:159)
        at
org.apache.geronimo.j2ee.deployment.EARConfigBuilder.buildConfiguration
(EARConfigBuilder.java:595)
        at org.apache.geronimo.deployment.Deployer.deploy
(Deployer.java:254)
        at org.apache.geronimo.deployment.Deployer.deploy
(Deployer.java:133)
        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.geronimo.gbean.runtime.ReflectionMethodInvoker.invoke
(ReflectionMethodInvoker.java:34)
        at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanOperation.invoke
(GBeanOperation.java:124)
        at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.invoke
(GBeanInstance.java:867)
        at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.BasicKernel.invoke
(BasicKernel.java:239)
        at
org.apache.geronimo.deployment.plugin.local.AbstractDeployCommand.doDeploy
(AbstractDeployCommand.java:116)
        at
org.apache.geronimo.deployment.plugin.local.DistributeCommand.run
(DistributeCommand.java:61)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.servlet.GrailsDispatcherServlet in
classloader default/TimeTracker/0.1/war
        at
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.MultiParentClassLoader.loadOptimizedClass
(MultiParentClassLoader.java:437)
        at
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.MultiParentClassLoader.loadClass
(MultiParentClassLoader.java:279)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251)
        at
org.apache.geronimo.jaxws.builder.AdvancedWARWebServiceFinder.getPortInfo
(AdvancedWARWebServiceFinder.java:142)
        ... 22 more

Any help would be appreciated.  Thank you.

--
Ken T. <ktectropy@...>

[Fredrik Jonson-3]

Ken T. wrote:

>  I'm trying to deploy a working (but very simple) grails application war
>  to Geronimo, but with no luck.

Did you include the grails-web-x.y.z.jar dependency in WEB-INF/lib in the war?
 
Could you give us more information about the layout of your war and the
web.xml configuration?

--
Fredrik Jonson

[Ken T.]

On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:42:02 +0000, Fredrik Jonson wrote:

> Ken T. wrote:
>
>>  I'm trying to deploy a working (but very simple) grails application
>>  war to Geronimo, but with no luck.
>
> Did you include the grails-web-x.y.z.jar dependency in WEB-INF/lib in
> the war?

Yes it is there.

>  
> Could you give us more information about the layout of your war and the
> web.xml configuration?

Sure.  The war is the standard produced by grails.  So there isn't
anything strange there.  And it deploys to tomcat without problems.  The
web.xml file is generated.  I ran it through xmlindent and I've included
it after my sig.  It is quite big.  


--
Ken T. <ktectropy@...>



<web-app xsi:schemaLocation='http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://
java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd' version='2.4' xmlns='http://
java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee' xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-
instance'>
    <display-name>/TimeTracker-production-0.1</display-name>
    <context-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name><param-value>/WEB-
INF/applicationContext.xml</param-value>
    </context-param>
    <context-param>
        <param-name>webAppRootKey</param-name><param-value>TimeTracker-
production-0.1</param-value>
    </context-param>
    <filter>
        <filter-name>sitemesh</filter-name><filter-
class>org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.sitemesh.GrailsPageFilter</filter-
class>
    </filter>
    <filter>
        <filter-name>charEncodingFilter</filter-name><filter-
class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>targetBeanName</param-name><param-
value>characterEncodingFilter</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>targetFilterLifecycle</param-name><param-
value>true</param-value>
        </init-param>
    </filter>
    <filter>
        <filter-name>urlMapping</filter-name><filter-
class>org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.mapping.filter.UrlMappingsFilter</
filter-class>
    </filter>
    <filter>
        <filter-name>grailsWebRequest</filter-name><filter-
class>org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.servlet.mvc.GrailsWebRequestFilter</
filter-class>
    </filter>
    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>charEncodingFilter</filter-name><url-pattern>/*</url-
pattern>
    </filter-mapping>
    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>grailsWebRequest</filter-name><url-pattern>/*</url-
pattern><dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher><dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
    </filter-mapping>
    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>sitemesh</filter-name><url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </filter-mapping>
    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>urlMapping</filter-name><url-pattern>/*</url-
pattern><dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher><dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
    </filter-mapping>
    <listener>
        <listener-
class>org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.util.Log4jConfigListener</listener-
class>
    </listener>
    <listener>
        <listener-
class>org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.context.GrailsContextLoaderListener</
listener-class>
    </listener>
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>grails</servlet-name><servlet-
class>org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.servlet.GrailsDispatcherServlet</
servlet-class><load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>gsp</servlet-name><servlet-
class>org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.pages.GroovyPagesServlet</servlet-
class>
    </servlet>
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>grails-errorhandler</servlet-name><servlet-
class>org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.servlet.ErrorHandlingServlet</
servlet-class>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>gsp</servlet-name><url-pattern>*.gsp</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>grails-errorhandler</servlet-name><url-pattern>/
grails-errorhandler</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>grails</servlet-name><url-pattern>*.dispatch</url-
pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file><welcome-file>index.jsp</
welcome-file><welcome-file>index.gsp</welcome-file>
    </welcome-file-list>
    <error-page>
        <error-code>500</error-code><location>/grails-errorhandler</
location>
    </error-page>
    <jsp-config>
        <taglib>
            <taglib-uri>http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core</taglib-
uri><taglib-location>/WEB-INF/tld/c.tld</taglib-location>
        </taglib>
        <taglib>
            <taglib-uri>http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt</taglib-
uri><taglib-location>/WEB-INF/tld/fmt.tld</taglib-location>
        </taglib>
        <taglib>
            <taglib-uri>http://www.springframework.org/tags</taglib-
uri><taglib-location>/WEB-INF/tld/spring.tld</taglib-location>
        </taglib>
        <taglib>
            <taglib-uri>http://grails.codehaus.org/tags</taglib-
uri><taglib-location>/WEB-INF/tld/grails.tld</taglib-location>
        </taglib>
    </jsp-config>
</web-app>

[Ken T.]

On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:53:43 +0000, Ken T. wrote:

> I'm trying to deploy a working (but very simple) grails application war
> to Geronimo, but with no luck.  I've already made the changes to the
> geronimo-web.xml file that were specified online, leaving me this:

This is actually getting really strange.  Once I try to install the war
file and then when it fails go to Web App Wars and try to start it again,
I'm no longer able to view my installed Web Apps.  The war breaks
Geronimo.  

This really shouldn't happen, so I tried installing the latest and
greatest Geronimo and I'm having exactly the same problem.

--
Ken T. <ktectropy@...>

[Ken T.]

On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:46:21 +0000, Ken T. wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:53:43 +0000, Ken T. wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to deploy a working (but very simple) grails application war
>> to Geronimo, but with no luck.  I've already made the changes to the
>> geronimo-web.xml file that were specified online, leaving me this:
>
> This is actually getting really strange.  Once I try to install the war
> file and then when it fails go to Web App Wars and try to start it
> again, I'm no longer able to view my installed Web Apps.  The war breaks
> Geronimo.
>
> This really shouldn't happen, so I tried installing the latest and
> greatest Geronimo and I'm having exactly the same problem.

I've figured out my problem.  The necessary entries in the geronimo-
web.xml file have changed over time.  

Thank you for looking into it.  

For anyone looking for the same information, for 2.1.4 looks something
like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/web-1.1">
    <environment xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/deployment-1.1">
        <moduleId>
            <groupId>grailsApp</groupId>
            <artifactId>TimeTracker</artifactId>
            <version>0.1</version>
            <type>war</type>
        </moduleId>
        <hidden-classes>
            <filter>org.springframework</filter>
            <filter>org.apache.cxf</filter>
            <filter>org.apache.commons</filter>
        </hidden-classes>        
    </environment>
    <context-root>/TimeTracker</context-root>
    <!-- Only if you are using virtual hosting under jetty -->
    <virtual-host>www.mydomain.com</virtual-host>
</web-app>





--
Ken T. <ktectropy@...>

[Joe Bohn]

Hi Ken,

Glad you figured it out.  I had played with this a while ago and
discovered much something similar.  At the time I think I discovered
that I could deploy into a Jetty JavaEE assembly by identifying only the
springframework classes as hidden and in a JavaEE Tomcat assembly with
just the jaxen classes as hidden.

One more thing to consider is that you should be able to deploy a Grails
war into either the Jetty or Tomcat minimal Geronimo assemblies without
any hidden-class entries at all (at least this worked about a year ago -
probably on 2.1.3).  This might be a good solution if you don't need the
additional capabilities in the JavaEE certified assemblies.

Joe


Ken T. wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:46:21 +0000, Ken T. wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:53:43 +0000, Ken T. wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to deploy a working (but very simple) grails application war
>>> to Geronimo, but with no luck.  I've already made the changes to the
>>> geronimo-web.xml file that were specified online, leaving me this:
>> This is actually getting really strange.  Once I try to install the war
>> file and then when it fails go to Web App Wars and try to start it
>> again, I'm no longer able to view my installed Web Apps.  The war breaks
>> Geronimo.
>>
>> This really shouldn't happen, so I tried installing the latest and
>> greatest Geronimo and I'm having exactly the same problem.
>
> I've figured out my problem.  The necessary entries in the geronimo-
> web.xml file have changed over time.  
>
> Thank you for looking into it.  
>
> For anyone looking for the same information, for 2.1.4 looks something
> like this:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <web-app xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/web-1.1">
>     <environment xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/deployment-1.1">
>         <moduleId>
>             <groupId>grailsApp</groupId>
>             <artifactId>TimeTracker</artifactId>
>             <version>0.1</version>
>             <type>war</type>
>         </moduleId>
>         <hidden-classes>
>             <filter>org.springframework</filter>
>             <filter>org.apache.cxf</filter>
>             <filter>org.apache.commons</filter>
>         </hidden-classes>        
>     </environment>
>     <context-root>/TimeTracker</context-root>
>     <!-- Only if you are using virtual hosting under jetty -->
>     <virtual-host>www.mydomain.com</virtual-host>
> </web-app>
>
>
>
>
>