[SOLVED] Deploying Grails WAR file from Tomcat 7 to Tomcat 8 gives Ehcache error

Deploying Grails WAR file from Tomcat 7 to Tomcat 8 gives Ehcache error

I have Grails web project developed in 2.5.1 version. It works fine in Tomcat 7.0.63. When I deploy same running WAR file in Tomcat 8.0.33, it gives ehcache error:

Caused by: org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Failed to instantiate [org.springframework.cache.ehcache.EhCacheFactoryBean]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.cache.ehcache.EhCacheFactoryBean.setMaxEntriesLocalHeap(J)V

I know it's due to ehcache old version, but the same war was working fine in Tomcat 7, so, what's wrong in Tomcat 8 ?

Any help would be great.

Thanks.

Update: If I replace all jar files of Tomcat 8 by Tomcat 7, then it works. But it seems like stupid thing to do this.

Solution

There was multiple ehcache jar files in project. Hibernate cache and spring cache, seems like spring cache was pointing to old jar in Tomcat8. We forced excluding ehcache-core and it worked.

For more info: Exclude plugin