Grails exclude a jar from dependency - spring

Question

I have a grails 2.4.5 project with dependency section in BuildConfig.groovy as:
dependencies {
// specify dependencies here under either 'build', 'compile', 'runtime', 'test' or 'provided' scopes eg.
//compile ":memcached:1.0.3.2"
//compile ":grails-melody:1.47.2"
// runtime 'mysql:mysql-connector-java:5.1.16'
compile "org.grails:grails-core:2.2.2.BUILD-SNAPSHOT", { exclude "grails"} // added for 2.2.1 support of inner class enums (http://jira.grails.org/browse/GRAILS-9627)
}
The program on running gives this error:
Fatal error during compilation org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Failed to read candidate component class: URL [jar:file:/C:/Users/Rahulserver/.m2/repository/org/grails/grails-project-api/2.4.5/grails-project-api-2.4.5.jar!/org/codehaus/groovy/grails/compiler/Grailsc.class]; nested exception is java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: class org.springframework.core.type.classreading.ClassMetadataReadingVisitor has interface org.springframework.asm.ClassVisitor as super class
I did some research on error java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: class org.springframework.core.type.classreading.ClassMetadataReadingVisitor has interface org.springframework.asm.ClassVisitor as super class
And found here that with spring 3.2 above, we don't need any spring-asm explicitly.
The dependency report on my project shows that org.grails:grails-core:2.2.2.BUILD-SNAPSHOT depends on spring-asm:
+--- org.grails:grails-core:2.2.2.BUILD-20130226.093746-1
| \--- commons-collections:commons-collections:3.2.1
| \--- commons-io:commons-io:2.1
| \--- org.springframework:spring-context:4.0.9.RELEASE
| \--- org.springframework:spring-beans:4.0.9.RELEASE
| \--- org.springframework:spring-aspects:3.1.4.RELEASE
| \--- org.springframework:spring-expression:4.0.9.RELEASE
| \--- org.springframework:spring-asm:3.1.4.RELEASE
| \--- org.springframework:spring-context-support:4.0.9.RELEASE
| \--- org.springframework:spring-core:4.0.9.RELEASE
| \--- org.springframework:spring-web:4.0.9.RELEASE
| \--- aopalliance:aopalliance:1.0
| \--- org.hibernate.javax.persistence:hibernate-jpa-2.0-api:1.0.1.Final
| \--- commons-validator:commons-validator:1.3.1
| \--- org.springframework:spring-aop:4.0.9.RELEASE
So what should I do to resolve this conflict? Is there any way I could avoid the
org.springframework:spring-asm:3.1.4.RELEASE dependency?

Answer 1

What is a dependency on Grails 2.2.x doing in a 2.4.5 project?
The bug you are referring to in the comments was fixed in 2.3-M1, so is not present in 2.4.x.
I suspect your errors will disappear if you remove the explicit dependency on grails-core 2.2.2*.