I am new to Java and have been struggling to get simplecaptcha to work with Grails so I can check out the examples given. I have rolled back my grails version to 2.0.0 already since otherwise Grails would throw an error. After doing so, I had to set the $JAVA_HOME variable (I am running Ubuntu 17.04) to /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-amd64 (I have also tried /usr/lib/jvm/default-java and /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64).
When trying to run the simplecaptcha example, I get the following error:
~/Documents/simplecaptcha-code/examples/grails$ grails run-app
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: ignoring option PermSize=256m; support was removed in 8.0
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: ignoring option MaxPermSize=256m; support was removed in 8.0
| Error java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
| Error at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
| Error at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
| Error at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
| Error at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
| Error at com.springsource.loaded.ri.ReflectiveInterceptor.jlrMethodInvoke(ReflectiveInterceptor.java:1231)
| Error at org.codehaus.groovy.grails.cli.support.GrailsStarter.rootLoader(GrailsStarter.java:234)
| Error at org.codehaus.groovy.grails.cli.support.GrailsStarter.main(GrailsStarter.java:262)
| Error Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: [Ljava/util/HashMap$Entry;
| Error at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
| Error at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2701)
| Error at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods(Class.java:1975)
| Error at com.springsource.loaded.ri.ReflectiveInterceptor.jlClassGetDeclaredMethods(ReflectiveInterceptor.java:123)
| Error at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedClass$3$1.run(CachedClass.java:84)
| Error at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
| Error at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedClass$3.initValue(CachedClass.java:81)
| Error at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedClass$3.initValue(CachedClass.java:79)
| Error at org.codehaus.groovy.util.LazyReference.getLocked(LazyReference.java:46)
| Error at org.codehaus.groovy.util.LazyReference.get(LazyReference.java:33)
| Error at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedClass.getMethods(CachedClass.java:250)
| Error at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.populateMethods(MetaClassImpl.java:341)
| Error at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.fillMethodIndex(MetaClassImpl.java:291)
| Error at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.initialize(MetaClassImpl.java:2908)
| Error at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.ClassInfo.getMetaClassUnderLock(ClassInfo.java:166)
| Error at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.ClassInfo.getMetaClass(ClassInfo.java:182)
| Error at groovy.util.ConfigObject.$getStaticMetaClass(ConfigObject.groovy)
| Error at groovy.util.ConfigObject.<init>(ConfigObject.groovy)
| Error at grails.util.AbstractBuildSettings.<init>(AbstractBuildSettings.java:33)
| Error at grails.util.BuildSettings.<init>(BuildSettings.groovy)
| Error at grails.util.BuildSettings.<init>(BuildSettings.groovy:729)
| Error at org.codehaus.groovy.grails.cli.GrailsScriptRunner.main(GrailsScriptRunner.java:162)
| Error ... 7 more
| Error Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: java.util.HashMap$Entry
| Error at org.codehaus.groovy.tools.RootLoader.findClass(RootLoader.java:156)
| Error at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
| Error at org.codehaus.groovy.tools.RootLoader.loadClass(RootLoader.java:128)
| Error at org.codehaus.groovy.grails.cli.support.GrailsRootLoader.loadClass(GrailsRootLoader.java:43)
| Error at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
| Error ... 29 more