Cannot run Grails CLI: Grails CLI: Bad method call from inside of a branch

Question

Trying to run a Groovy/Grails application in NetBeans I got the following error message:

Error occurred running Grails CLI: Bad <init> method call from inside of a branch

Grails version: 3.0.4 Java: jdk1.8.0_20

Thomasleveil · Accepted Answer

setting the GRAILS_OPTS environment variable to -XX:-UseSplitVerifier -Xverify:none fixes the issue

Cannot run Grails CLI: Grails CLI: Bad <init> method call from inside of a branch