Deployment problems on commercial J2EE containers

[Sebastian Simon]

Hi there,
Just to bring some life into this group.

Maybe a nuts and bolts techie question. Does anyone of you know where
the grailsUrlMappingsHolder Bean gets intialized during startup?
I know it's a standard plugin of grails so it must be somewhere inside
grails framework itself as its not in the applicationContext XML.
I get errors that this bean cannot be initialized when deploying a
grails up on SAP' s J2EE server, the grails app runs however fine on
any other servlet container.

Any hints about it?

[tunggad]

The applicationContext XML File, what you see under WEB-INF, is NOT
the applicationContext of the an Grails Application, its the PARENT
applicationContext which bootstraps the infrastructure of a grails app
(incl. GrailsApplication, PluginManager etc.)

The applicationContext of an Grails app is dynamically/
programmatically constructured by the above infrastructure on startup
process. If something goes wrong on this process, i think, you may use
a remote debugger to connect to the JEE Server and see whats going on
there.

Have Luck!

[Sebastian Simon]

Hello Tung,

Thanks for the reply, actually i solved it already and step by step
came to the conclusion :D
It was a classloader problem. Grails couldn't load a few base plugins
including the urlPlugin.
Fixed with what SAP calls "heavy classloaders" (http://help.sap.com/
saphelp_nwce711core/helpdata/en/46/b902f8d0b22880e10000000a155369/
content.htm)
If the grails jars are in that loader everything works fine. Quite
headache! :D

Best regards
Sebastian

Yes i found that out by going through the grails code.