Deploying a simple grails (1.3.7) WAR file to JBoss 7.0.1

We are trying to get a simple grails (1.3.7) war file deployed onto JBoss 7.0.1. But we are running into this exception that prevents the application from deploying.

$ sudo bin/standalone.sh
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  JBoss Bootstrap Environment

  JBOSS_HOME: /opt/jboss-as-7.0.1.Final

  JAVA: java

  JAVA_OPTS: -server -Xms64m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Dorg.jboss.resolver.warning=true -Dsun.rmi.dgc.client.gcInterval=3600000 -Dsun.rmi.dgc.serv开发者_运维知识库er.gcInterval=3600000 -Djboss.modules.system.pkgs=org.jboss.byteman

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16:32:28,744 INFO  [org.jboss.modules] JBoss Modules version 1.0.1.GA
16:32:28,992 INFO  [org.jboss.msc] JBoss MSC version 1.0.0.GA
16:32:29,061 INFO  [org.jboss.as] JBoss AS 7.0.1.Final "Zap" starting
16:32:29,856 WARN  [org.jboss.as] No security realm defined for native management service, all access will be unrestricted.
16:32:29,874 INFO  [org.jboss.as] creating http management service using network interface (management) port (9990)
16:32:29,876 WARN  [org.jboss.as] No security realm defined for http management service, all access will be unrestricted.
16:32:29,886 INFO  [org.jboss.as.logging] Removing bootstrap log handlers
16:32:29,907 INFO  [org.jboss.as.connector.subsystems.datasources] (Controller Boot Thread) Deploying JDBC-compliant driver class org.h2.Driver (version 1.2)
16:32:29,922 INFO  [org.jboss.as.clustering.infinispan.subsystem] (Controller Boot Thread) Activating Infinispan subsystem.
16:32:30,081 INFO  [org.jboss.as.naming] (Controller Boot Thread) Activating Naming Subsystem
16:32:30,091 INFO  [org.jboss.as.naming] (MSC service thread 1-4) Starting Naming Service
16:32:30,095 INFO  [org.jboss.as.osgi] (Controller Boot Thread) Activating OSGi Subsystem
16:32:30,119 INFO  [org.jboss.as.security] (Controller Boot Thread) Activating Security Subsystem
16:32:30,122 INFO  [org.jboss.remoting] (MSC service thread 1-2) JBoss Remoting version 3.2.0.Beta2
16:32:30,139 INFO  [org.xnio] (MSC service thread 1-2) XNIO Version 3.0.0.Beta3
16:32:30,154 INFO  [org.xnio.nio] (MSC service thread 1-2) XNIO NIO Implementation Version 3.0.0.Beta3
16:32:30,346 INFO  [org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener] (MSC service thread 1-4) The Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the java.library.path: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0.x86_64/jre/lib/amd64/server:/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0.x86_64/jre/lib/amd64:/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0.x86_64/jre/../lib/amd64:/usr/java/packages/lib/amd64:/usr/lib64:/lib64:/lib:/usr/lib
16:32:30,370 INFO  [org.jboss.as.remoting] (MSC service thread 1-3) Listening on /127.0.0.1:9999
16:32:30,381 INFO  [org.jboss.as.jmx.JMXConnectorService] (MSC service thread 1-3) Starting remote JMX connector
16:32:30,414 INFO  [org.jboss.as.ee] (Controller Boot Thread) Activating EE subsystem
16:32:30,453 INFO  [org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol] (MSC service thread 1-4) Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http--127.0.0.1-8080
16:32:30,820 INFO  [org.jboss.as.connector] (MSC service thread 1-2) Starting JCA Subsystem (JBoss IronJacamar 1.0.3.Final)
16:32:30,917 INFO  [org.jboss.as.connector.subsystems.datasources] (MSC service thread 1-2) Bound data source [java:jboss/datasources/ExampleDS]
16:32:31,279 INFO  [org.jboss.as.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-4) Started FileSystemDeploymentService for directory /opt/jboss-as-7.0.1.Final/standalone/deployments
16:32:31,297 INFO  [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) JBoss AS 7.0.1.Final "Zap" started in 2821ms - Started 93 of 148 services (55 services are passive or on-demand)
16:32:31,334 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-1) Starting deployment of "helloGrails-0.1.war"
16:32:34,278 WARN  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment.service-loader] (MSC service thread 1-2) Encountered invalid class name "org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParser,org.xmlpull.mxp1_serializer.MXSerializer" for service type "org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserFactory"
16:32:34,331 INFO  [org.jboss.as.jpa] (MSC service thread 1-4) added javax.persistence.api dependency to helloGrails-0.1.war
16:32:34,338 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-4) MSC00001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."helloGrails-0.1.war".POST_MODULE: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."helloGrails-0.1.war".POST_MODULE: Failed to process phase POST_MODULE of deployment "helloGrails-0.1.war"
    at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:121)
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1765)
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$ClearTCCLTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:2291)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110) [:1.6.0_20]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603) [:1.6.0_20]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636) [:1.6.0_20]
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
    at org.jboss.as.ejb3.deployment.processors.BusinessViewAnnotationProcessor.deploy(BusinessViewAnnotationProcessor.java:72)
    at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:115)
    ... 5 more

16:32:34,348 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.controller] (DeploymentScanner-threads - 2) Deployment of "helloGrails-0.1.war" was rolled back with failure message {"Failed services" => {"jboss.deployment.unit.\"helloGrails-0.1.war\".POST_MODULE" => "org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit.\"helloGrails-0.1.war\".POST_MODULE: Failed to process phase POST_MODULE of deployment \"helloGrails-0.1.war\""}}
16:32:34,434 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-4) Stopped deployment helloGrails-0.1.war in 92ms
16:32:34,441 ERROR [org.jboss.as.deployment] (DeploymentScanner-threads - 1) {"Composite operation failed and was rolled back. Steps that failed:" => {"Operation step-2" => {"Failed services" => {"jboss.deployment.unit.\"helloGrails-0.1.war\".POST_MODULE" => "org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit.\"helloGrails-0.1.war\".POST_MODULE: Failed to process phase POST_MODULE of deployment \"helloGrails-0.1.war\""}}}}

We've found a few JIRA issues containing the exception:

https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-1551

https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-1601

But since we aren't changing anything on the BuildConfig.groovy, we suspect that it might be an issue with how JBoss handles OSGi dependencies.

Seems to be fixed in 7.1 but another problem exists see: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-2941