Errors like this occur: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'grailsApplication' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed, AdminController: 1: unable to resolve class uk.co.enotions.admin.Common @ line 1, column 1. 1 error Caused by: org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed, AdminController: 1: unable to resolve class uk.co.enotions.admin.Common @ line 1, column 1. 1 error at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ErrorCollector.failIfErrors(ErrorCollector.java:326) at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.applyToSourceUnits(CompilationUnit.java:848) at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.compile(CompilationUnit.java:480) at groovy.lang.GroovyClassLoader.parseClass(GroovyClassLoader.java:306) Also found in the previous snapshot that it would not load jars from ./lib either - maybe this is fixed now but I can't be sure because this problem is stopping webtest doing anything.