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John Moore
John Moore

Reputation: 7129

Can I run a Grails 2.2.5 application with Java 8?

I have been trying to run a Grails 2.2.5 application, which works fine on Tomcat 6 and Java 7, on a Tomcat 8 installation with Java 8 (specifically '1.8.0_181'), and have been having startup errors. I seem to recall some compatibility issues but I can't find anything about Grails 2.2.x with Java 8. The error message in question is:

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'pluginManager' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke method getAt() on null object

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1559

Answers (1)

Burt Beckwith
Burt Beckwith

Reputation: 75671

No, Groovy is the limitation here. The first version of Groovy that worked with Java 8 was version 2.3, and Grails 2.4 was the first version to use Groovy 2.3+. Since you cannot change the version of Groovy that Grails uses, you'll need to stick with Java 7 (not great) or upgrade (much better).

Upvotes: 5

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