java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError for org/springframework/aop/framework/AbstractAdvisingBeanPostProcessor

Question

Folks I am getting the following compilation error:

 May 11, 2014 1:30:41 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
 SEVERE: StandardWrapper.Throwable
 org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException: Configuration    problem: Failed to import bean definitions from URL location [classpath*:META-  INF/spring/context.xml]
 Offending resource: ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/spring/appServlet/servlet-  context.xml]; nested exception is  org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Unexpected exception parsing   XML document from URL [jar:file:/C:/Users/Dean/Downloads/springsource/vfabric-tc-server-  developer-2.9.5.SR1/base-instance/wtpwebapps/cointraders-api/WEB-INF/lib/data-core-1.0.0-  SNAPSHOT.jar!/META-INF/spring/context.xml]; nested exception is    org.springframework.beans.FatalBeanException: Invalid NamespaceHandler class  [org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.config.JpaRepositoryNameSpaceHandler] for namespace  [http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa]: problem with handler class file or dependent  class; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:  org/springframework/aop/framework/AbstractAdvisingBeanPostProcessor

I am running spring 3.1.1.RELEASE. I have been trying to figure out this problem and there's little help from previous searches. My stack trace here link

Solution 1

The documentation for AbstractAdvisingBeanPostProcessor says that it exists since version 3.2, not Spring 3.1. Also from here where you can see all the classes in the spring-aop artifact from Spring 3.1.4, that class does not seem to exist.

I suggest you upgrade to Spring 3.2 and make sure that there are no Spring 3.1 dependencies on your classpath

Solution 2

After seeing your stack trace I noticed it saying Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.aop.framework.AbstractAdvisingBeanPostProcessor

This is the cause for No class def found exception. Add spring-aop jar to your run time class path. That jar must be missing now.

Solution 3

If you use maven,you can use command 'mvn dependency tree' to check you project all jar dependencies,find depend on spring3.1.x and exclusion that.