Grails ApplicationContext.xml grailsResourceLoader

Question

I’m trying to get a Project running on Tomcat7 that requires some Plugins and is written in Grails.

Creating a -war with the command grails prod war results in no Errors. But if i add the app to my Tomcat7server it dose not get executed.

The log file of my tomcat7 reviels that there must be something wrong with my ApplicationContext.xml.

2014-07-01 15:22:22,325 [http-bio-8080-exec-87] ERROR StackTrace  - Full Stack Trace:
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: 
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/applicationContext.xml]; 
nested exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.GrailsResourceLoaderFactoryBean

My ApplicationContext.xml looks like this:

<?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" />
        <property name="grailsResourceLoader" ref="grailsResourceLoader" />
    </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="grailsResourceLoader" class="org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.GrailsResourceLoaderFactoryBean">
        <property name="grailsResourceHolder" ref="grailsResourceHolder" />
    </bean>

    <bean id="grailsResourceHolder" scope="prototype" class="org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.spring.GrailsResourceHolder">
        <property name="resources">
              <value>classpath*:**/grails-app/**/*.groovy</value>
        </property>
    </bean>    

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

My research showed me that with the new Grails 2.4.0 some things have been deleted like the Holder stuff.

but now i dont know what to do with that Do I remove the lines ? Do I need to replace them or even delete them ?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Simply,

Remove grailsResourceLoader bean reference (the line below) from applicationContext.xml.

<property name="grailsResourceLoader" ref="grailsResourceLoader" />

and remove it from the property of grailsApplication bean

and you will have:

<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>

Answer 2

See the section "Changes To applicationContext.xml" - http://grails.org/doc/2.4.x/guide/upgradingFrom23.html

Basically remove the reference of grailsResourceLoader and corresponding bean declaration form applicationContext.xml