groovy/lang/GroovyObject not found error when running batch_runner.jar on windows in headless mode

Question

I am trying to build a pipeline to generate a service that can set up and run a repast simphony model in a remote machine. Following several posts, it seems that the easiest way to achieve it is by using the batch configuration, together with the batch_runner.jar, as it is explained in the official documentation.

However, when running the following command prompt:

java -jar batch_runner.jar -hl -r -c path/to/cofnfig.properties

An exception is thrown:

INFO  13:22:33,709 repast.simphony.batch.gui.HeadlessMain - Writing batch run config file to: C:\Users\mpena\RepastSimphony-2.10.0\output\config.props
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
        at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
        at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566)
        at repast.simphony.batch.standalone.StandAloneMain.run(StandAloneMain.java:207)
        at repast.simphony.batch.standalone.StandAloneMain.main(StandAloneMain.java:276)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: groovy/lang/GroovyObject
        at repast.simphony.batch.gui.HeadlessMain.createAntProject(HeadlessMain.java:87)
        at repast.simphony.batch.gui.HeadlessMain.run(HeadlessMain.java:66)
        at repast.simphony.batch.gui.HeadlessMain.main(HeadlessMain.java:310)

Any ideas to solve it? Btw: I have already included the -plugin_dir flag on the command prompt with the plugins directory in the eclipse distribution.

Thank you!