I'm creating a very simple CRUD app but am having problems. When I run a generate-xxx target, Grails finds multiple ApplicationBootStrap.groovy files. These files do exist in GRAILS_HOME/samples/** so I thought since GRAILS_HOME was in my classpath it might be picking them up there. But if I remove GRAILS_HOME then Grails chokes because it can't find GrailsApplicationFactoryBean. I read in a forum about someone who had the same problem and fixed it by removing '.' from the classpath, but that does't work in my case since I only have GRAILS_HOME in my classpath With Java 5 and Java 1.4, I get an "Error starting Sun's native2ascii:" message.