David Jencks wrote:
> 
> On May 13, 2008, at 9:55 PM, michaelg wrote:
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>> 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)
> 
> It doesn't matter whether the plan is included in the app or supplied 
> externally.
>>
>>
>> Any ideas/advice is greatly appreciated.
> 
> I'm surprised you are seeing different results on "big" and "little" 
> geronimo.  You should be getting the same classloader for your app in 
> either server.  


Would it have worked in little G because little G does not include 
commons-fileupload and so there is no chance of loading a class from one 
classloader and using it in another?


Would it be possible to share your app so we can take a
> look at what is going on?
> 
> If I was writing an article on geronimo I would structure the project so 
> it consisted of one or more geronimo plugins and would show how to 
> construct a specialized server including those plugins.  This is by far 
> easier if you are using maven, which I realize might not fit with the 
> requirements you are working under.  There are some instructions on how 
> to do something similar here:
> 
> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GMOxDOC21/Constructing+a+special-purpose+server+using+maven 
> 
> 
> thanks
> david jencks
> 
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