While running the application in developement..it wrks fine. when i build the war and try to deploy in tomcat it's giving the following error:
log4j:ERROR Error initializing log4j: tried to access field org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder.SINGLETON from class org.slf4j.LoggerFactory
java.lang.IllegalAccessError: tried to access field org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder.SINGLETON from class org.slf4j.LoggerFactory
at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.staticInitialize(LoggerFactory.java:83)
at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.<clinit>(LoggerFactory.java:73)
at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.SLF4JLogFactory.getInstance(SLF4JLogFactory.java:155)
at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.SLF4JLogFactory.getInstance(SLF4JLogFactory.java:131)
at org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.getLog(LogFactory.java:685)
at org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.DefaultGrailsApplication.<clinit>(DefaultGrailsApplication.java:82)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:379)
at org.codehaus.groovy.grails.plugins.log4j.web.util.Log4jConfigListener.createGrailsApplication(Log4jConfigListener.java:54)
at org.codehaus.groovy.grails.plugins.log4j.web.util.Log4jConfigListener.contextInitialized(Log4jConfigListener.java:42)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:5017)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5531)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:901)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:652)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:1095)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1930)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
According to SLF4j FAQs
This error is caused by the static initializer of the LoggerFactory class attempting to directly access the SINGLETON field of org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder. While this was allowed in SLF4J 1.5.5 and earlier, in 1.5.6 and later the SINGLETON field has been marked as private access.
If you get the exception shown above, then you are using an older version of slf4j-api, e.g. 1.4.3, with a new version of a slf4j binding, e.g. 1.5.6. Typically, this occurs when your Maven pom.ml file incorporates hibernate 3.3.0 which declares a dependency on slf4j-api version 1.4.2. If your pom.xml declares a dependency on an slf4j binding, say slf4j-log4j12 version 1.5.6, then you will get illegal access errors. In your pom.xml file, explicitly declaring a dependency on slf4j-api matching the version of the declared binding will make the problem go away.
See this answer also. You might need to verify that your server doesn't contains the older version for slf4j-api.