Me está costando mucho descubrir esto. Tengo una aplicación que funciona bien en intellij y como guerra independiente (creada congradlew assemble) Pero cuando intento desplegar esta guerra (creada congradlew assemble pero con tomcat starter configurado comoprovided en el archivo build.gradle) en el tomcat 8.5, obtengo esta excepción. Pero si genero una guerra usandogradlew war entonces no veo esta excepción y tomcat se implementa correctamente. Pero en ese caso, mi aplicación está dando todo tipo de errores en el front-end relacionados con gsps y g: namespace.

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
    at grails.plugin.springsecurity.web.access.intercept.AnnotationFilterInvocationDefinition.findActionRoles(AnnotationFilterInvocationDefinition.groovy:458)
    at grails.plugin.springsecurity.web.access.intercept.AnnotationFilterInvocationDefinition.findAnnotations(AnnotationFilterInvocationDefinition.groovy:425)
    at grails.plugin.springsecurity.web.access.intercept.AnnotationFilterInvocationDefinition.findAnnotations(AnnotationFilterInvocationDefinition.groovy)
    at grails.plugin.springsecurity.web.access.intercept.AnnotationFilterInvocationDefinition.findControllerAnnotations(AnnotationFilterInvocationDefinition.groovy:382)
    at grails.plugin.springsecurity.web.access.intercept.AnnotationFilterInvocationDefinition.initialize(AnnotationFilterInvocationDefinition.groovy:223)
    at grails.plugin.springsecurity.web.access.intercept.AnnotationFilterInvocationDefinition$initialize.call(Unknown Source)
    at grails.plugin.springsecurity.SpringSecurityCoreGrailsPlugin.initializeFromAnnotations(SpringSecurityCoreGrailsPlugin.groovy:770)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PogoMetaMethodSite$PogoCachedMethodSiteNoUnwrapNoCoerce.invoke(PogoMetaMethodSite.java:210)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PogoMetaMethodSite.callCurrent(PogoMetaMethodSite.java:59)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.callCurrent(AbstractCallSite.java:166)
    at grails.plugin.springsecurity.SpringSecurityCoreGrailsPlugin.doWithApplicationContext(SpringSecurityCoreGrailsPlugin.groovy:651)
    at org.grails.plugins.DefaultGrailsPlugin.doWithApplicationContext(DefaultGrailsPlugin.java:523)
    at org.grails.plugins.AbstractGrailsPluginManager.doPostProcessing(AbstractGrailsPluginManager.java:224)
    at grails.boot.config.GrailsApplicationPostProcessor.onApplicationEvent(GrailsApplicationPostProcessor.groovy:246)
    at grails.boot.config.GrailsApplicationPostProcessor.onApplicationEvent(GrailsApplicationPostProcessor.groovy)
    at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.invokeListener(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:167)
    at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:139)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.publishEvent(AbstractApplicationContext.java:383)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.publishEvent(AbstractApplicationContext.java:389)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.publishEvent(AbstractApplicationContext.java:337)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishRefresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:882)
    at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.finishRefresh(EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.java:144)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:545)
    at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.refresh(EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.java:122)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refresh(SpringApplication.java:762)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refreshContext(SpringApplication.java:372)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:316)
    at grails.boot.GrailsApp.run(GrailsApp.groovy:83)
    at org.springframework.boot.web.support.SpringBootServletInitializer.run(SpringBootServletInitializer.java:151)
    at org.grails.boot.context.web.GrailsAppServletInitializer.createRootApplicationContext(GrailsAppServletInitializer.groovy:57)
    at org.springframework.boot.web.support.SpringBootServletInitializer.onStartup(SpringBootServletInitializer.java:86)
    at org.springframework.web.SpringServletContainerInitializer.onStartup(SpringServletContainerInitializer.java:169)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5205)
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)

¿Realmente no puedo entender por qué sucede esto? Este es miapplication.groovy archivo (configuración relacionada con la seguridad)

grails.plugin.springsecurity.userLookup.userDomainClassName = 'my.domain.Person'
grails.plugin.springsecurity.authority.className = 'my.domain.Role'
grails.plugin.springsecurity.securityConfigType = 'Annotation' //"InterceptUrlMap"
grails.plugin.springsecurity.password.algorithm = 'MD5'
grails.plugin.springsecurity.useSecurityEventListener = true
grails.plugin.springsecurity.useSessionFixationPrevention = true
grails.plugin.springsecurity.rejectIfNoRule = true
grails.plugin.springsecurity.fii.rejectPublicInvocations = false // make this true only in dev mode. XXX
/**
 * Salting a password is a good strategy from security point of view.
 * @see  https://grails-plugins.github.io/grails-spring-security-core/v3/#salt
 */
grails.plugin.springsecurity.dao.reflectionSaltSourceProperty = 'username'
grails.plugin.springsecurity.controllerAnnotations.staticRules = [
        [pattern: '/', access: ['permitAll']],
        [pattern: '/error/**', access: ['permitAll']],
        [pattern: '/index', access: ['permitAll']],
        [pattern: '/index.gsp', access: ['permitAll']],
        [pattern: '/shutdown', access: ['permitAll']],
        [pattern: '/assets/**', access: ['permitAll']],
        [pattern: '/**/js/**', access: ['permitAll']],
        [pattern: '/**/css/**', access: ['permitAll']],
        [pattern: '/**/images/**', access: ['permitAll']],
        [pattern: '/**/favicon.ico', access: ['permitAll']],
        [pattern: '/installrep/**', access: ['permitAll']],
        [pattern: '/status/**', access: ['permitAll']],
        [pattern: '/upgradeRepository/**', access: ['permitAll']],
        [pattern: '/patchUpgradeRepository/**', access: ['permitAll']],
        [pattern: '/log/**', access: ['permitAll']],
        [pattern: '/help/**', access: ['permitAll']],
        [pattern: '/login/**', access: ['permitAll']],
        [pattern: '/logout/**', access: ['permitAll']]
]

grails.plugin.springsecurity.filterChain.chainMap = [
        [pattern: '/assets*', filters: 'none'],
        [pattern: 'js*', filters: 'none'],
        [pattern: 'css*', filters: 'none'],
        [pattern: 'images*', filters: 'none'],
        [pattern: 'favicon.ico', filters: 'none'],
        [pattern: '/endpoints*', filters: 'JOINED_FILTERS,-filterInvocationInterceptor'],
        [pattern: '/services*', filters: 'JOINED_FILTERS,-filterInvocationInterceptor'],
        [pattern: '/**', filters: 'JOINED_FILTERS']
]

¿Alguien puede ayudarme a entender lo que está pasando?