Error creating bean with name 'cxf' defined in class path resource META-INF/cxf/cxf.xml

Question

I just try to run a simple web service application with Apache CXF and spring by Maven , but I got the following error when I started Tomcat

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'cxf' defined in class path resource [META-INF/cxf/cxf.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.addApplicationListener(Lorg/springframework/context/ApplicationListener;)V
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.addApplicationListener(Lorg/springframework/context/ApplicationListener;)V
    at org.apache.cxf.bus.spring.SpringBus.setApplicationContext(SpringBus.java:78)
    at org.springframework.context.support.ApplicationContextAwareProcessor.postProcessBeforeInitialization(ApplicationContextAwareProcessor.java:86)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyBeanPostProcessorsBeforeInitialization(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:296)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:843)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:419)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:241)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:152)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.getBeansOfType(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:199)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.getBeansOfType(AbstractApplicationContext.java:661)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.registerListeners(AbstractApplicationContext.java:505)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:328)
    at org.springframework.web.context.support.AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.java:155)
    at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:246)
    at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:184)
    at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:49)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4205)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4704)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:840)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:463)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:525)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:754)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:595)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414)

Is there any way to resolve this error? thanks in advance

Solution 1

You probably have multiple versions of Spring (2.5.6 vs 3.0 or 3.1) on the classpath. Check your Maven dependencies.

Solution 2

Couple of options:

1) Update to Spring 3.x - it looks like you are using 2.5.x.

2) Update to the latest releases of CXF released last week. CXF SHOULD still work with spring 2.5.x (but likely not for much longer), but an errant commit caused the 2.5.2 to no longer work with 2.5.x. This was fixed for 2.6/2.5.3.