I've been playing around with grails and I encountered this exact same
behavior Michael mentioned. Even with Gianny's recommended hidden
classes I received the dom4j InvalidXPathException on the Tomcat Javaee5
assembly.
I was able to get a grails app working on a tomcat javaee5 assembly by
adding just one more filter for the jaxen classes. So, my
geroniom-web.xml looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/web-1.2";>
<environment xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/deployment-1.2";>
<moduleId>
<groupId>yourGroupId</groupId>
<artifactId>yourArtifactId</artifactId>
<version>yourVersion</version>
<type>war</type>
</moduleId>
<hidden-classes>
<filter>org.jaxen</filter>
<filter>org.springframework</filter>
<filter>org.apache.cxf</filter>
<filter>org.apache.commons</filter>
</hidden-classes>
</environment>
<context-root>/yourContextPath/</context-root>
</web-app>
BTW, it is true that you can deploy a grails app into either minimal
assembly without any hidden-class filters in the deployment plan. The
additional libraries in the javaee5 assemblies make the filters
necessary. Apparently there are some classloader differences between
the Jetty and Tomcat assemblies that make the jaxen addition necessary
when deploying to a Tomcat Javaee5 server.
Joe
michaelg wrote:
I am writing an article for IBM developerWorks on using Grails and Geronimo
together. However, I am unable to deploy a Grails WAR to Geronimo.
I first tried it with Geronimo 2.1.1 with Jetty. The error I got was a
NoClassDefFound for org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileItemFactory. This
class is the Geronimo repository, and is also included with the Grails war.
It's the same version for both.
Next I tried it with Geronimo 2.1.1 with Tomcat. This time I got a dom4j
InvalidXPathException.
Next I tried the Little G distribution. It worked perfectly. I had also
tried standalone Tomcat with success as well, so I guess this should not
have been too surprising.
Obviously I have to point a finger at Grails or Geronimo, and since it works
fine on Tomcat or Little G, I am pointing the finger at Geronimo. The
Geronimo/Jetty error sure smelled like a class loader problem, but I have no
clue on the Geronimo/Tomcat. Note, in all cases I included a Geronimo
deployment plan inside the WAR (/WEB-INF/geronimo-web.xml)
Any ideas/advice is greatly appreciated.
