Could not run Grails project GGTS

Question

I have a grails project that runs perfectly in the command line. When I try to run it in GGTS with

grails run-app

it runs the first time without any error. Then, I stopped the server and ran it again with grails run-app. Now the following errors occur.

| Error 2013-04-29 15:32:14,965 [localhost-startStop-1] ERROR context.GrailsContextLoader  - Error initializing the application: Error creating bean with name 'annotationHandlerMapping': Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/codehaus/jackson/annotate/JacksonAnnotation
Message: Error creating bean with name 'annotationHandlerMapping': Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/codehaus/jackson/annotate/JacksonAnnotation
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 NoClassDefFoundError: org/codehaus/jackson/annotate/JacksonAnnotation
->> 3098 | initAnnotationsIfNecessary in java.lang.Class
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
|   3057 | getAnnotation in     ''
|   3070 | isAnnotationPresent 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
Caused by ClassNotFoundException: org.codehaus.jackson.annotate.JacksonAnnotation
->>  175 | findClass in org.codehaus.groovy.tools.RootLoader
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
|    423 | loadClass in java.lang.ClassLoader
|    147 | loadClass in org.codehaus.groovy.tools.RootLoader
|    356 | loadClass in java.lang.ClassLoader
|   3098 | initAnnotationsIfNecessary in java.lang.Class
|   3057 | getAnnotation in     ''
|   3070 | isAnnotationPresent 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

I also tried to delete .grails/2.2.1/projects/MyProject directory and updated the dependencies. Refresh dependencies works fine but run-app does not work in GGTS. What should I do?

Answer 1

As usual, try the following in this order

grails clean
grails refresh-dependencies
grails run-app

If it still doesn't work, you may want to delete your .grails/2.2.2/projects/* and repeat the above-mentioned steps.

Answer 2

It turns out that the problem is caused by the Java 7 version. Do not user Update 21 then the error will vanish.