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[Jutta Biernath <>]

Hi,

I try to have Grouper 2.2.2 run on a VM with Jessie, Openjdk7 and Tomcat 8,
and I am facing an odd problem. After the installation the GrouperShell runs
without any problem, but as soon as I copy the war-file into the tomcat
webapps folder I get a severe error saying

....
 java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:
edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.GrouperSourceAdapter.initParams()Ljava/util/P
roperties;
        at
edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.GrouperSourceAdapter.init(GrouperSourceAdapte
r.java:420)
        at
edu.internet2.middleware.subject.provider.SourceManager.loadSource(SourceManag
er.java:347)
.....

This error occurs whenever Tomcat tries an auto deploy of the war file.

After many many hours of searching I found out the following:

GrouperSourceAdapter extends BaseSourceAdapter; the above named method
"initParams()" is a method which is declared in BaseSourceAdapter.java, right?

Not necessaril: It is declared in a newer version of BaseSourceAdapter.java,
which is built within grouper.jar. But: BaseSourceAdapter.java is also used in
subject.jar, which comes along with Grouper 2.2.2, but this time in the old
version *without* the method "initParams()".

Having no other explanation for my problem I think that Tomcat 8 reads for any
reason first the old version of BaseSourceAdapter in subject.jar, then is read
GrouperSourceAdapter in grouper.jar - oops, no initParams-Method found, so an
error is thrown.

Can you confirm this behaviour? If no: Do you have an idea what else could
cause this problem? If yes: Could you provide another subject.jar with an
updated BaseSourceAdapter?

Thank you,

Jutta Biernath
Freie Universität Berlin