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<dependency>
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    <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
    <version>4.3.18.RELEASE</version>
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    Developer almost 2 years

    I upgraded Spring from version 1.5.8 to version 4.2.3.RELEASE. Project compiles fine but when i start tomcat i get following error.

    INFO: Initializing Spring root WebApplicationContext
    02 Sep 2016 21:07:46,235  INFO ContextLoader:285 - Root WebApplicationContext: initialization started
    02 Sep 2016 21:07:46,264 ERROR ContextLoader:336 - Context initialization failed
    java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/springframework/core/ResolvableTypeProvider
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:800)
        at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.findClassInternal(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:3116)
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.findClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1344)
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1825)
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1705)
        at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)
        at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Class.java:2585)
        at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Class.java:2885)
        at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructor(Class.java:2058)
        at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:104)
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:360)
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:293)
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:106)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:5077)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5591)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:901)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:652)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:1095)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1957)
        at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
    Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.core.ResolvableTypeProvider
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1856)
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1705)
        ... 28 more
    

    Below is the pom.xml

    <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
        <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
        <groupId>net.nationalpayment.cp20</groupId>
        <artifactId>wsrv</artifactId>
        <packaging>war</packaging>
        <version>versionUpgrade-SNAPSHOT</version>
        <name>wsrv Spring-WS Application</name>
        <url>http://www.springframework.org/spring-ws</url>
        <reporting>
            <plugins>
                <plugin>
                    <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
                    <configuration>
                        <stylesheetfile>${basedir}/../../src/main/javadoc/javadoc.css</stylesheetfile>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                    <artifactId>findbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                    <!-- <version>2.5.1</version> -->
                    <version>3.0.0</version>
                    <configuration>
                        <findbugsXmlOutput>true</findbugsXmlOutput>
                        <findbugsXmlWithMessages>true</findbugsXmlWithMessages>
                        <xmlOutput>true</xmlOutput>
                        <!-- <excludeFilterFile>${project.basedir}/conf/findbugs-exclude.xml</excludeFilterFile> -->
                        <effort>Max</effort>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>
            </plugins>
        </reporting>
        <build>
            <resources>
                <resource>
                    <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
    
                    <filtering>true</filtering>
                </resource>
                <!--<resource> <directory>src/main/resources</directory> <excludes> <exclude>**/*.properties</exclude> 
                    </excludes> <filtering>false</filtering> </resource> -->
            </resources>
            <plugins>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                    <artifactId>findbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                    <!-- <version>2.5.1</version> -->
                    <version>3.0.0</version>
                </plugin>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>com.google.code.maven-replacer-plugin</groupId>
                    <artifactId>replacer</artifactId>
                    <version>1.5.3</version>
                    <configuration>
                        <file>pom.xml</file>
                        <replacements>
                            <replacement>
                                <token>${current.build.version}</token>
                                <value>${replacer.current.build.version}</value>
                            </replacement>
                        </replacements>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>com.google.code.maven-svn-revision-number-plugin</groupId>
                    <artifactId>maven-svn-revision-number-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>1.7</version>
                    <executions>
                        <execution>
                            <goals>
                                <goal>revision</goal>
                            </goals>
                        </execution>
                    </executions>
                    <!-- put your configurations here -->
                    <configuration>
                        <entries>
                            <entry>
                                <prefix>CPIIWSRV-svn</prefix>
                            </entry>
                        </entries>
                    </configuration>
                    <dependencies>
                        <dependency>
                            <groupId>org.tmatesoft.svnkit</groupId>
                            <artifactId>svnkit</artifactId>
                            <version>1.8.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
                        </dependency>
                    </dependencies>
                </plugin>
                <!-- <plugin> <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId> <artifactId>aspectj-maven-plugin</artifactId> 
                    <version>1.2</version> <configuration> <source>1.6</source> <verbose>true</verbose> 
                    <complianceLevel>1.6</complianceLevel> <showWeaveInfo>true</showWeaveInfo> 
                    <aspectLibraries> <aspectLibrary> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> 
                    <artifactId>spring-aspects</artifactId> </aspectLibrary> </aspectLibraries> 
                    </configuration> <executions> <execution> <goals> <goal>compile</goal> </goals> 
                    </execution> </executions> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId> 
                    <artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId> <version>1.6.6</version> </dependency> 
                    <dependency> <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId> <artifactId>aspectjtools</artifactId> 
                    <version>1.6.6</version> </dependency> </dependencies> </plugin> -->
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                    <artifactId>aspectj-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                    <!-- <version>1.2</version> -->
                    <version>1.6</version>
                    <configuration>
                        <source>1.7</source>
                        <verbose>true</verbose>
                        <complianceLevel>1.7</complianceLevel>
                        <showWeaveInfo>true</showWeaveInfo>
                        <aspectLibraries>
                            <aspectLibrary>
                                <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
                                <artifactId>spring-aspects</artifactId>
                            </aspectLibrary>
                        </aspectLibraries>
                    </configuration>
                    <executions>
                        <execution>
                            <goals>
                                <goal>compile</goal>
                            </goals>
                        </execution>
                    </executions>
                    <dependencies>
                        <dependency>
                            <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
                            <artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>
                            <version>${aspectj.version}</version>
                        </dependency>
                        <dependency>
                            <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
                            <artifactId>aspectjtools</artifactId>
                            <version>${aspectj.version}</version>
                        </dependency>
                    </dependencies>
                </plugin>
    
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>eviware</groupId>
                    <artifactId>maven-soapui-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>2.5.1</version>
                    <configuration>
                        <projectFile>src/test/soap-ui-tests/webservicetestsuite1.xml</projectFile>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>3.2</version>
                    <configuration>
                        <source>1.7</source>
                        <target>1.7</target>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                    <artifactId>maven-enforcer-plugin</artifactId>
                    <executions>
                        <execution>
                            <id>enforce-versions</id>
                            <goals>
                                <goal>enforce</goal>
                            </goals>
                            <configuration>
                                <rules>
                                    <requireJavaVersion>
                                        <version>1.7</version>
                                    </requireJavaVersion>
                                </rules>
                            </configuration>
                        </execution>
                    </executions>
                </plugin>
                <!-- <plugin> <groupId>com.sun.tools.xjc.maven2</groupId> <artifactId>maven-jaxb-plugin</artifactId> 
                    <version>1.1.1</version> <executions> <execution> <phase>generate-sources</phase> 
                    <goals> <goal>generate</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> <configuration> 
                    <generatePackage>net.nationalpayment.cp20.ws.schema</generatePackage> <schemaDirectory>src/main/webapp/</schemaDirectory> 
                    </configuration> </plugin> -->
    
                <!-- Added for Stack Upgrade starts -->
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.jvnet.jaxb2.maven2</groupId>
                    <artifactId>maven-jaxb2-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>0.12.3</version>
                    <executions>
                        <execution>
                            <phase>generate-sources</phase>
                            <goals>
                                <goal>generate</goal>
                            </goals>
                        </execution>
                    </executions>
                    <configuration>
                        <generatePackage>net.nationalpayment.cp20.ws.schema</generatePackage>
                        <schemaDirectory>src/main/webapp/</schemaDirectory>
                        <!-- <generateDirectory>${project.build.directory}/generated-sources/kyc</generateDirectory> -->
                        <generateDirectory>src/main/java/</generateDirectory>
                        <verbose>true</verbose>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>
                <!-- Added for Stack Upgrade ends -->
    
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                    <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>2.3</version>
                    <configuration>
                        <descriptors>
                            <descriptor>src/main/assembly/assembly.xml</descriptor>
                        </descriptors>
                    </configuration>
                    <executions>
                        <execution>
                            <id>make-assembly</id>
                            <phase>package</phase>
                            <goals>
                                <goal>single</goal>
                            </goals>
                        </execution>
                    </executions>
                </plugin>
    
            </plugins>
        </build>
        <dependencies>
    
            <!-- Added for Stack Upgrade starts -->
            <dependency>
                <groupId>javax.cache</groupId>
                <artifactId>cache-api</artifactId>
                <version>1.0.0</version>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>javax.transaction</groupId>
                <artifactId>javax.transaction-api</artifactId>
                <version>1.2</version>
            </dependency>
    
            <!-- Added for Stack Upgrade ends -->
    
    
            <dependency>
                <groupId>net.nationalpayment.cp20</groupId>
                <artifactId>services</artifactId>
                <version>${current.build.version}</version>
            </dependency>
    
    
            <!-- Spring-WS dependencies -->
    <!--        <dependency>
                <groupId>org.springframework.ws</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-xml</artifactId>
                <version>2.2.0.RELEASE</version>
            </dependency> -->
    
            <!-- Added for Stack Upgrade starts -->
    
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.springframework.ws</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-xml</artifactId>
                <version>${spring.ws.version}</version>
            </dependency>
    
            <!-- Added for Stack Upgrade ends -->
    
    <!--        <dependency>
                <groupId>org.springframework.ws</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-ws-core</artifactId>
                <version>2.2.4.RELEASE</version>
            </dependency> -->
    
            <!-- Added for Stack Upgrade starts -->
    
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.springframework.ws</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-ws-core</artifactId>
                <version>${spring.ws.version}</version>
            </dependency>
    
            <!-- Added for Stack Upgrade ends -->       
    
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.springframework.ws</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-ws-core-tiger</artifactId>
                <version>1.5.10</version>
            </dependency>
    
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.springframework.ws</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-oxm</artifactId>
                <version>1.5.10</version>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.springframework.ws</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-oxm-tiger</artifactId>
                <version>1.5.10</version>
                <scope>runtime</scope>
            </dependency>
    
    <!--        <dependency>
                <groupId>org.springframework.ws</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-ws-support</artifactId>
                <version>2.2.0.RELEASE</version>
                <scope>runtime</scope>
            </dependency> -->
    
            <!-- Added for Stack Upgrade starts -->
    
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.springframework.ws</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-ws-support</artifactId>
                <version>${spring.ws.version}</version>
                <scope>runtime</scope>
            </dependency>       
    
            <!-- Added for Stack Upgrade ends -->
    
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.springframework.ws</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-ws-security</artifactId>
                <!-- <version>2.2.0.RELEASE</version> -->
                <version>${spring.ws.version}</version>
                <scope>runtime</scope>
                <exclusions>
                    <exclusion>
                        <groupId>org.apache.ws.security</groupId>
                        <artifactId>wss4j</artifactId>
                    </exclusion>
                </exclusions>
            </dependency>
            <!-- Spring dependencies -->
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
                <version>${spring.version}</version>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
                <version>${spring.version}</version>
            </dependency>
    
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
                <artifactId>cxf-api</artifactId>
                <version>${cxf.version}</version>
                <scope>compile</scope>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
                <artifactId>cxf-rt-frontend-jaxws</artifactId>
                <version>${cxf.version}</version>
                <scope>compile</scope>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
                <artifactId>cxf-rt-frontend-jaxrs</artifactId>
                <version>${cxf.version}</version>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
                <artifactId>cxf-rt-transports-http</artifactId>
                <version>${cxf.version}</version>
                <scope>compile</scope>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
                <artifactId>cxf-bundle-jaxrs</artifactId>
                <version>${cxf.version}</version>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
                <artifactId>cxf-bundle-jaxrs</artifactId>
                <version>${cxf.version}</version>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.apache.neethi</groupId>
                <artifactId>neethi</artifactId>
                <version>3.0.2</version>
                <exclusions>
                    <exclusion>
                        <groupId>org.codehaus.woodstox</groupId>
                        <artifactId>woodstox-core-asl</artifactId>
                    </exclusion>
                </exclusions>
            </dependency>
    
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
                <artifactId>jackson-jaxrs</artifactId>
                <version>1.1.1</version>
                <exclusions>
                    <exclusion>
                        <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
                        <artifactId>jackson-core-asl</artifactId>
                    </exclusion>
                </exclusions>
            </dependency>
    
            <dependency>
                <groupId>commons-codec</groupId>
                <artifactId>commons-codec</artifactId>
                <version>1.10</version>
            </dependency>
    
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.jasypt</groupId>
                <artifactId>jasypt</artifactId>
                <version>1.9.2</version>
                <scope>compile</scope>
            </dependency>
    
    
            <!-- Test dependencies -->
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.easymock</groupId>
                <artifactId>easymock</artifactId>
                <scope>test</scope>
                <version>2.2</version>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>xalan</groupId>
                <artifactId>xalan</artifactId>
                <version>2.7.2</version>
            </dependency>
        </dependencies>
        <properties>
            <!-- Database settings -->
            <dbunit.dataTypeFactoryName>org.dbunit.ext.mysql.MySqlDataTypeFactory</dbunit.dataTypeFactoryName>
            <hibernate.dialect>org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect</hibernate.dialect>
            <jdbc.groupId>mysql</jdbc.groupId>
            <jdbc.artifactId>mysql-connector-java</jdbc.artifactId>
            <cxf.version>2.6.0</cxf.version>
            <jdbc.version>5.1.28</jdbc.version>
            <jdbc.driverClassName>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</jdbc.driverClassName>
            <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
            <timestamp>${maven.build.timestamp}</timestamp>
    
    
            <!-- Added for Stack Upgrade starts -->
    
            <aspectj.version>1.7.4</aspectj.version>
            <spring.version>4.2.3.RELEASE</spring.version>
            <spring.ws.version>2.2.0.RELEASE</spring.ws.version>
            <!-- <dao.framework>hibernate</dao.framework> <web.framework>spring</web.framework> 
                <commons.fileupload.version>1.2.1</commons.fileupload.version> <commons.io.version>1.3.2</commons.io.version> 
                <hibernate.version>4.0.1.Final</hibernate.version> <spring.version>4.2.3.RELEASE</spring.version> -->
    
            <!-- Added for Stack Upgrade ends -->
    
    
    
            <wsrv.timestamp>${timestamp}</wsrv.timestamp>
            <maven.build.timestamp.format>yyyy-MM-dd_HH-mm-ss</maven.build.timestamp.format>
            <current.build.version>versionUpgrade-SNAPSHOT</current.build.version>
    
        </properties>
    
    </project>
    

    Below is web.xml

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
    
    <web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
             xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
             xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"
             version="2.4">
        <listener>
            <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
        </listener>
        <servlet>
            <servlet-name>ws</servlet-name>
            <servlet-class>org.springframework.ws.transport.http.MessageDispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
        </servlet>
        <servlet-mapping>
            <servlet-name>ws</servlet-name>
            <url-pattern>/services</url-pattern>
        </servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-mapping>
            <servlet-name>ws</servlet-name>
            <url-pattern>/service</url-pattern>
        </servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-mapping>
            <servlet-name>ws</servlet-name>
            <url-pattern>*.wsdl</url-pattern>
        </servlet-mapping>
        <servlet>
            <servlet-name>mvc</servlet-name>
            <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
        </servlet>
    
        <servlet>
            <servlet-name>CXFServlet</servlet-name>
            <servlet-class>org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.CXFServlet</servlet-class>
            <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
        </servlet>
    
        <servlet-mapping>
            <servlet-name>CXFServlet</servlet-name>
            <url-pattern>/cftRest/*</url-pattern>
        </servlet-mapping>
    
        <servlet-mapping>
            <servlet-name>CXFServlet</servlet-name>
            <url-pattern>/cftAuth/*</url-pattern>
        </servlet-mapping>
    
        <filter>
        <filter-name>Spring OpenEntityManagerInViewFilter</filter-name>
        <filter-class>org.springframework.orm.jpa.support.OpenEntityManagerInViewFilter</filter-class>
        </filter>
    
        <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>Spring OpenEntityManagerInViewFilter</filter-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
        </filter-mapping>
    
        <!--PBE encription configs-->
        <servlet>
            <servlet-name>webPBEConfigServlet</servlet-name>
            <servlet-class>
              org.jasypt.web.pbeconfig.WebPBEConfigServlet
            </servlet-class>
            <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
          </servlet>
    
          <servlet-mapping>
            <servlet-name>webPBEConfigServlet</servlet-name>
            <url-pattern>/webPBEConfig.do</url-pattern>
          </servlet-mapping>
    
    
         <filter>
            <filter-name>webPBEConfigFilter</filter-name>
            <filter-class>org.jasypt.web.pbeconfig.WebPBEConfigFilter</filter-class>
        </filter>
    
        <filter-mapping>
            <filter-name>webPBEConfigFilter</filter-name>
            <servlet-name>ws</servlet-name>
        </filter-mapping>
    
        <mime-mapping>
            <extension>xsd</extension>
            <mime-type>text/xml</mime-type>
        </mime-mapping>
        <welcome-file-list>
            <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
        </welcome-file-list>
    
        <context-param>
        <param-name>log4jConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>file:${CONFIG_PATH}/log4j.properties</param-value>
    </context-param>
    
    <context-param>
        <param-name>log4jRefreshInterval</param-name>
        <param-value>1000</param-value>
    </context-param>
    
    <listener>
        <listener-class>org.springframework.web.util.Log4jConfigListener</listener-class>
    </listener>
    
    
    </web-app>
    

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.I am using Eclipse and Maven3.