Grails with Intellij - java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError - spring

Question

I am trying to run an existing Grails project within Intellij Idea. The project will run from the command line using grails run-app, however when I try to run the project from within Intellij I get the error
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/springframework/web/filter/GenericFilterBean
The GenericFilterBean class exists within the grails directory in the location C:\grails-2.4.3\lib\org.springframework\spring-web\jars, and I have additionally tried to add the Jar as a dependency of the module within the project structure (to ensure that it is included on the classpath).
I don't understand why the project will run from the command line but fails within Intellij.
I am using Grails version 2.4.3 and Java 1.8.
Does anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening?
2015-07-20 12:33:46,752 [localhost-startStop-1] ERROR context.GrailsContextLoaderListener - Error initializing the application: org/springframework/web/filter/GenericFilterBean
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/springframework/web/filter/GenericFilterBean
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:760)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:467)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:73)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:368)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:362)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:361)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:411)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2701)
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods(Class.java:1975)
at org.codehaus.groovy.util.LazyReference.getLocked(LazyReference.java:46)
at org.codehaus.groovy.util.LazyReference.get(LazyReference.java:33)
at SpringSecurityCoreGrailsPlugin$_closure2.doCall(SpringSecurityCoreGrailsPlugin.groovy:209)
at grails.spring.BeanBuilder.invokeBeanDefiningClosure(BeanBuilder.java:754)
at grails.spring.BeanBuilder.beans(BeanBuilder.java:584)
at grails.spring.BeanBuilder.invokeMethod(BeanBuilder.java:527)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.web.filter.GenericFilterBean
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
... 21 more
Error |
Forked Grails VM exited with error
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: ignoring option MaxPermSize=256m; support was removed in 8.0
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: ignoring option PermSize=256m; support was removed in 8.0
Process finished with exit code 1