Could not initialize class org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerHelper

[aggiepilot04]

Back in May, upgraded to Activiti 5.15.1.  We have a 60 day expiration timer on some of our workflow tasks, and we recently noticed that they started failing.  Everything works fine with our workflows so long as a user is at the keyboard processing a task.  However, when a task progresses as a result of a timer firing, we get this exception (stack trace below).  Has anyone seen a similar issue?  I haven't seen this mentioned elsewhere, so I'm at a bit of a loss.  Thanks in advance.


08:46:42,015 [pool-1-thread-2] ERROR org.activiti.engine.impl.jobexecutor.ExecuteJobsRunnable  - exception during job execution: Job 4094418 failed
org.activiti.engine.ActivitiException: Job 4094418 failed
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.cmd.ExecuteJobsCmd.execute(ExecuteJobsCmd.java:101)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.interceptor.CommandInvoker.execute(CommandInvoker.java:24)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.interceptor.CommandContextInterceptor.execute(CommandContextInterceptor.java:57)
        at org.activiti.spring.SpringTransactionInterceptor$1.doInTransaction(SpringTransactionInterceptor.java:47)
        at org.springframework.transaction.support.TransactionTemplate.execute(TransactionTemplate.java:131)
        at org.activiti.spring.SpringTransactionInterceptor.execute(SpringTransactionInterceptor.java:45)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.interceptor.LogInterceptor.execute(LogInterceptor.java:31)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.cfg.CommandExecutorImpl.execute(CommandExecutorImpl.java:40)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.cfg.CommandExecutorImpl.execute(CommandExecutorImpl.java:35)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.jobexecutor.ExecuteJobsRunnable.run(ExecuteJobsRunnable.java:52)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerHelper
       at groovy.lang.GroovyObjectSupport.<init>(GroovyObjectSupport.java:32)
        at groovy.lang.Binding.<init>(Binding.java:36)
        at org.codehaus.groovy.jsr223.GroovyScriptEngineImpl$1.<init>(GroovyScriptEngineImpl.java:263)
        at org.codehaus.groovy.jsr223.GroovyScriptEngineImpl.eval(GroovyScriptEngineImpl.java:263)
        at org.codehaus.groovy.jsr223.GroovyScriptEngineImpl.eval(GroovyScriptEngineImpl.java:146)
        at javax.script.AbstractScriptEngine.eval(AbstractScriptEngine.java:216)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.scripting.ScriptingEngines.evaluate(ScriptingEngines.java:87)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.scripting.ScriptingEngines.evaluate(ScriptingEngines.java:73)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.bpmn.behavior.ScriptTaskActivityBehavior.execute(ScriptTaskActivityBehavior.java:63)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.pvm.runtime.AtomicOperationActivityExecute.execute(AtomicOperationActivityExecute.java:54)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.interceptor.CommandContext.performOperation(CommandContext.java:90)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.persistence.entity.ExecutionEntity.performOperationSync(ExecutionEntity.java:571)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.persistence.entity.ExecutionEntity.performOperation(ExecutionEntity.java:566)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.pvm.runtime.AtomicOperationTransitionNotifyListenerStart.eventNotificationsCompleted(AtomicOperationTransitionNotifyListenerStart.java:52)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.pvm.runtime.AbstractEventAtomicOperation.execute(AbstractEventAtomicOperation.java:56)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.interceptor.CommandContext.performOperation(CommandContext.java:90)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.persistence.entity.ExecutionEntity.performOperationSync(ExecutionEntity.java:571)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.persistence.entity.ExecutionEntity.performOperation(ExecutionEntity.java:566)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.pvm.runtime.AbstractEventAtomicOperation.execute(AbstractEventAtomicOperation.java:49)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.interceptor.CommandContext.performOperation(CommandContext.java:90)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.persistence.entity.ExecutionEntity.performOperationSync(ExecutionEntity.java:571)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.persistence.entity.ExecutionEntity.performOperation(ExecutionEntity.java:566)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.pvm.runtime.AtomicOperationTransitionCreateScope.execute(AtomicOperationTransitionCreateScope.java:49)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.interceptor.CommandContext.performOperation(CommandContext.java:90)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.persistence.entity.ExecutionEntity.performOperationSync(ExecutionEntity.java:571)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.persistence.entity.ExecutionEntity.performOperation(ExecutionEntity.java:566)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.pvm.runtime.AtomicOperationTransitionNotifyListenerTake.execute(AtomicOperationTransitionNotifyListenerTake.java:66)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.interceptor.CommandContext.performOperation(CommandContext.java:90)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.persistence.entity.ExecutionEntity.performOperationSync(ExecutionEntity.java:571)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.persistence.entity.ExecutionEntity.performOperation(ExecutionEntity.java:566)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.pvm.runtime.AtomicOperationTransitionDestroyScope.execute(AtomicOperationTransitionDestroyScope.java:116)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.interceptor.CommandContext.performOperation(CommandContext.java:90)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.persistence.entity.ExecutionEntity.performOperationSync(ExecutionEntity.java:571)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.persistence.entity.ExecutionEntity.performOperation(ExecutionEntity.java:566)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.pvm.runtime.AtomicOperationTransitionNotifyListenerEnd.eventNotificationsCompleted(AtomicOperationTransitionNotifyListenerEnd.java:44)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.pvm.runtime.AbstractEventAtomicOperation.execute(AbstractEventAtomicOperation.java:56)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.interceptor.CommandContext.performOperation(CommandContext.java:90)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.persistence.entity.ExecutionEntity.performOperationSync(ExecutionEntity.java:571)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.persistence.entity.ExecutionEntity.performOperation(ExecutionEntity.java:566)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.pvm.runtime.AbstractEventAtomicOperation.execute(AbstractEventAtomicOperation.java:49)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.interceptor.CommandContext.performOperation(CommandContext.java:90)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.persistence.entity.ExecutionEntity.performOperationSync(ExecutionEntity.java:571)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.persistence.entity.ExecutionEntity.performOperation(ExecutionEntity.java:566)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.persistence.entity.ExecutionEntity.take(ExecutionEntity.java:407)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.bpmn.behavior.BpmnActivityBehavior.performOutgoingBehavior(BpmnActivityBehavior.java:105)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.bpmn.behavior.BpmnActivityBehavior.performDefaultOutgoingBehavior(BpmnActivityBehavior.java:54)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.bpmn.behavior.FlowNodeActivityBehavior.leave(FlowNodeActivityBehavior.java:44)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.bpmn.behavior.AbstractBpmnActivityBehavior.leave(AbstractBpmnActivityBehavior.java:47)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.bpmn.behavior.IntermediateCatchEventActivityBehavior.signal(IntermediateCatchEventActivityBehavior.java:27)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.persistence.entity.ExecutionEntity.signal(ExecutionEntity.java:378)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.jobexecutor.TimerCatchIntermediateEventJobHandler.execute(TimerCatchIntermediateEventJobHandler.java:46)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.persistence.entity.JobEntity.execute(JobEntity.java:84)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.persistence.entity.TimerEntity.execute(TimerEntity.java:64)
        at org.activiti.engine.impl.cmd.ExecuteJobsCmd.execute(ExecuteJobsCmd.java:73)
        … 12 more

[martin_grofcik]

Hi,


Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerHelper

is InvokerHelper in your classpath?

Regards
Martin

[aggiepilot04]

Thanks for the response.  I think I have it figured out.  We only use activiti-explorer for deploying new process definitions…everything else we do via the REST API.  Most of my investigation was directed at activiti-rest for this reason.  It turns out that the activiti-explorer deployment is processing some of these timer jobs though, and that deployment had duplicate groovy-all's (and different versions) in the classpath.  I can't easily recreate in a test environment, but this will go into production tonight.  I'm fairly confident that it will resolve our problems.