Spring annotation configuration java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/objectweb/asm/util/TraceClassVisitor
Solution 1
I actually don't really know what solved the problem, but I did go to some tutorial website that does the same thing and just copied their pom file dependencies. I still don't understand what was missing.
In any case Balint Bako might be right with his answer but i am not sure, i got it solved by the time I got back to StackOverflow.
Here is the pom file
<!-- Spring 3 dependencies --> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId> <version>${spring.version}</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId> <version>${spring.version}</version> </dependency> <!-- JavaConfig need this library --> <dependency> <groupId>cglib</groupId> <artifactId>cglib</artifactId> <version>2.2.2</version> </dependency>
Good luck
Solution 2
As per exception it seems that ASM related jar is missing. You can add asm-all
<dependency>
<groupId>asm</groupId>
<artifactId>asm-all</artifactId>
<version>2.1</version>
</dependency>
Solution 3
It worked with me with following dependencies. Thanks Rubens Mariuzzo. You cracked with cglib version problem. It never worked with 3.0 but worked with 2.2.2
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-expression</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>cglib</groupId>
<artifactId>cglib</artifactId>
<version>2.2.2</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
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Gleeb almost 2 years
i am trying to run a very simple Spring application with java configuration. i am getting the following exception and i dont understand why. as far as i can tell i have all the required dependencies
public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println( "Hello World from main!" ); ApplicationContext ctx = new AnnotationConfigApplicationContext(AppConfig.class); HelloWorld helloWorld = ctx.getBean(HelloWorld.class); System.out.println( helloWorld.getMessage() ); }
The exception occures at - AnnotationConfigApplicationContext function call
worth mentioning: I have the following dependency in my POM.XML file.
<dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-asm</artifactId> <version>${org.springframework.version}</version> </dependency>
And the exception:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot load configuration class: spring.play.springStart.AppConfig at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.enhanceConfigurationClasses(ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.java:313) at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.postProcessBeanFactory(ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.java:197) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.invokeBeanFactoryPostProcessors(AbstractApplicationContext.java:681) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.invokeBeanFactoryPostProcessors(AbstractApplicationContext.java:620) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:446) at org.springframework.context.annotation.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext.<init>(AnnotationConfigApplicationContext.java:73) at spring.play.springStart.App.main(App.java:14) Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/objectweb/asm/util/TraceClassVisitor at net.sf.cglib.core.DebuggingClassWriter.toByteArray(DebuggingClassWriter.java:73) at net.sf.cglib.core.DefaultGeneratorStrategy.generate(DefaultGeneratorStrategy.java:26) at net.sf.cglib.core.AbstractClassGenerator.create(AbstractClassGenerator.java:216) at net.sf.cglib.core.KeyFactory$Generator.create(KeyFactory.java:144) at net.sf.cglib.core.KeyFactory.create(KeyFactory.java:116) at net.sf.cglib.core.KeyFactory.create(KeyFactory.java:108) at net.sf.cglib.core.KeyFactory.create(KeyFactory.java:104) at net.sf.cglib.proxy.Enhancer.<clinit>(Enhancer.java:69) at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassEnhancer.newEnhancer(ConfigurationClassEnhancer.java:136) at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassEnhancer.enhance(ConfigurationClassEnhancer.java:109) at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.enhanceConfigurationClasses(ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.java:303) ... 6 more Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.objectweb.asm.util.TraceClassVisitor at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247) ... 17 more