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Got me tests working, and tomcat is finally running my application.
However, now grails jetty will not start.
09-05-14 22:46:37,899 [main] ERROR context.ContextLoader - Context initialization failedorg.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'pluginMetaManager' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.LinkageError: loader constraints violated when linking javax/xml/namespace/QName class at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at grails.web.container.EmbeddableServer$start.call(Unknown Source) at _GrailsRun_groovy$_run_closure5_closure11.doCall(_GrailsRun_groovy:145) at _GrailsRun_groovy$_run_closure5_closure11.doCall(_GrailsRun_groovy) at _GrailsSettings_groovy$_run_closure10.doCall(_GrailsSettings_groovy:269) at _GrailsRun_groovy$_run_closure5.doCall(_GrailsRun_groovy:137) at _GrailsRun_groovy.runInline(_GrailsRun_groovy:104) at _GrailsRun_groovy.this$4$runInline(_GrailsRun_groovy) at _GrailsRun_groovy$_run_closure1.doCall(_GrailsRun_groovy:58) at RunApp$_run_closure1.doCall(RunApp.groovy:33) at gant.Gant$_dispatch_closure4.doCall(Gant.groovy:324) at gant.Gant$_dispatch_closure6.doCall(Gant.groovy:334) at gant.Gant$_dispatch_closure6.doCall(Gant.groovy) at gant.Gant.withBuildListeners(Gant.groovy:344) at gant.Gant.this$2$withBuildListeners(Gant.groovy) at gant.Gant$this$2$withBuildListeners.callCurrent(Unknown Source) at gant.Gant.dispatch(Gant.groovy:334) at gant.Gant.this$2$dispatch(Gant.groovy) at gant.Gant.invokeMethod(Gant.groovy) at gant.Gant.processTargets(Gant.groovy:495) at gant.Gant.processTargets(Gant.groovy:480)When I include the jars jaxb-impl-2.0.1.jar and jaxb-api-2.0.jar, this is conflicting with the xfire plugin staxapi.Okay, part II of problem solving. I am uninstalling the xfire plugin and going to add my own dependencies.