Grails: Native2ascii error when I add a new property to message.properties

Question

I get a strange error when I add a new property to message.properties file in my grails application during runtime. When I restart the application via the command line, or resta

Answer 1

I had a similar error when compiling Grails 2 from the command line under linux.

Error packaging application: Error occurred processing message bundles: Error starting Sun's native2ascii:
...
Caused by: : Error starting Sun's native2ascii: 
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Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: sun.tools.native2ascii.Main`

I solved it by setting JAVA_HOME to JDK as mentioned above, something like

JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.161.x86_64

and not:

JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64

also include $JAVA_HOME/bin in the PATH variable