Tomcat grails plugin 8.0.50 java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.catalina.core.JasperListener

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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72791126/tomcat-grails-plugin-8-0-50-java-lang-classnotfoundexception-org-apache-catalin
I have a Grails 2.4.5 application that has the tomcat grails plugin 8.0.50 as a dependency in the pom.xml with the provided scope.

<dependency>
            <groupId>org.grails.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>tomcat</artifactId>
            <version>8.0.50</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
            <type>zip</type>
        </dependency>

Everything works fine locally, however, during the deployment, it fails to start on the server that has Tomcat 8.5.76 and jdk 1.8.0_321.

The exception stacktrace is below (@jeffbrown @graemerocher):

Jun 28, 2022 12:48:00 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester startElement
SEVERE: Begin event threw exception
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.catalina.core.JasperListener
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:387)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:418)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:351)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.ObjectCreateRule.begin(ObjectCreateRule.java:114)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.startElement(Digester.java:1235)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.startElement(AbstractSAXParser.java:510)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractXMLDocumentParser.emptyElement(AbstractXMLDocumentParser.java:183)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1341)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:2786)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:605)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:507)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:867)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:796)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:142)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1216)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:644)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1496)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:618)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:669)
        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.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.load(Bootstrap.java:305)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:475)

Jun 28, 2022 12:48:00 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
WARNING: Catalina.start using conf/server.xml: Error at (29, 67) : org.apache.catalina.core.JasperListener
Jun 28, 2022 12:48:00 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
SEVERE: Cannot start server. Server instance is not configured.