Gradle dependency Is not loaded with gradle tomcat plugin

Question

I have

compile 'org.slf4j:slf4j-jdk14:1.0'

in my dependencies, still getting

Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/slf4j/spi/LoggerFactoryBinder

when running

gradle clean tomcatRun

what is wrong with this tomcat class loader?

Answer 1

Has your tomcatRun task got a classpath from compile?

configurations{
    tomcatRun 
}

dependecies{
     compile 'org.slf4j:slf4j-jdk14:1.0'
     tomcatRun configurations.compile
}

tomcatRun{
    classpath = configurations.tomcatRun 
}