Spring boot 1.5.1 application can't be launched with gretty 1.4.1

[jissart1]

Hello, I can't launch my springboot application with spring boot version 1.5.1 and Gretty 1.4.1 : SpringBoot has changed the package name for the SpringBootServletInitializer.class : org.springframework.boot.context.web.SpringBootServletInitializer is now org.springframework.boot.web.support.SpringBootServletInitializer

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/springframework/boot/context/web/SpringBootServletInitializer at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:763) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142) at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:467) at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:73) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:368) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:362) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:361) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357) at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:348) at java_lang_Class$forName.call(Unknown Source) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCall(CallSiteArray.java:48) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:113) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:141) at org.akhikhl.gretty.TomcatServerConfigurer.createContext(TomcatServerConfigurer.groovy:231) at org.akhikhl.gretty.TomcatServerConfigurer$createContext$0.callCurrent(Unknown Source) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCallCurrent(CallSiteArray.java:52) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.callCurrent(AbstractCallSite.java:154) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.callCurrent(AbstractCallSite.java:182) at org.akhikhl.gretty.TomcatServerConfigurer.createAndConfigureServer(TomcatServerConfigurer.groovy:205) at org.akhikhl.gretty.TomcatServerConfigurer.createAndConfigureServer(TomcatServerConfigurer.groovy) at org.akhikhl.gretty.TomcatServerConfigurer$createAndConfigureServer.call(Unknown Source) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCall(CallSiteArray.java:48) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:113) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:117) at org.akhikhl.gretty.TomcatServerManager.startServer(TomcatServerManager.groovy:45) at org.akhikhl.gretty.ServerManager$startServer$0.call(Unknown Source) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCall(CallSiteArray.java:48) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:113) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:125) at org.akhikhl.gretty.Runner.run(Runner.groovy:117) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) at org.springsource.loaded.ri.ReflectiveInterceptor.jlrMethodInvoke(ReflectiveInterceptor.java:1426) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PogoMetaMethodSite$PogoCachedMethodSiteNoUnwrapNoCoerce.invoke(PogoMetaMethodSite.java:210) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PogoMetaMethodSite.call(PogoMetaMethodSite.java:71) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCall(CallSiteArray.java:48) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:113) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:117) at org.akhikhl.gretty.Runner.main(Runner.groovy:44) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.boot.context.web.SpringBootServletInitializer at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357) ... 45 more Exception in thread "Thread-18" org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: Process 'command '/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0_91/bin/java'' finished with non-zero exit value 1 at org.gradle.process.internal.DefaultExecHandle$ExecResultImpl.assertNormalExitValue(DefaultExecHandle.java:369) at org.gradle.process.internal.DefaultJavaExecAction.execute(DefaultJavaExecAction.java:31) at org.gradle.api.internal.file.DefaultFileOperations.javaexec(DefaultFileOperations.java:170) at org.gradle.api.internal.project.DefaultProject.javaexec(DefaultProject.java:914) at org.gradle.api.internal.project.DefaultProject.javaexec(DefaultProject.java:910) at org.gradle.api.Project$javaexec$7.call(Unknown Source) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCall(CallSiteArray.java:48) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:113) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:125) at org.akhikhl.gretty.DefaultLauncher.javaExec(DefaultLauncher.groovy:89) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedMethod.invoke(CachedMethod.java:93) at groovy.lang.MetaMethod.doMethodInvoke(MetaMethod.java:325) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.metaclass.ClosureMetaClass.invokeMethod(ClosureMetaClass.java:384) at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeMethod(MetaClassImpl.java:1024) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PogoMetaClassSite.callCurrent(PogoMetaClassSite.java:69) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCallCurrent(CallSiteArray.java:52) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.callCurrent(AbstractCallSite.java:154) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.callCurrent(AbstractCallSite.java:166) at org.akhikhl.gretty.LauncherBase$_launchThread_closure4.doCall(LauncherBase.groovy:256) at org.akhikhl.gretty.LauncherBase$_launchThread_closure4.doCall(LauncherBase.groovy) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedMethod.invoke(CachedMethod.java:93) at groovy.lang.MetaMethod.doMethodInvoke(MetaMethod.java:325) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.metaclass.ClosureMetaClass.invokeMethod(ClosureMetaClass.java:294) at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeMethod(MetaClassImpl.java:1024) at groovy.lang.Closure.call(Closure.java:414) at groovy.lang.Closure.call(Closure.java:408) at groovy.lang.Closure.run(Closure.java:495) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

[henrik242]

I worked around it by adding the following class to my app:

package org.springframework.boot.context.web;

@Deprecated
public abstract class SpringBootServletInitializer
        extends org.springframework.boot.web.support.SpringBootServletInitializer {

    // workaround for https://github.com/akhikhl/gretty/issues/334
}

[henrik242]

Solved in Gretty 2.0.0!

[youngfuture]

@henrik242 we can add SpringBootServletInitializer class into "package org.springframework.boot.context.web" ?

[henrik242]

@youngfuture Have you tried the latest Gretty? You can find it at https://github.com/gretty-gradle-plugin/gretty