error with @Transactional and websphere 8

[usama_ra1]

HI
I am facing strange error with Spring 3.1 on Websphere 8 when I am using <tx:annotation-driven I got below error.
I am not sure is it related to Spring version 3.1 or Websphere. I used Spring 3.0.0 on WAS 7 without any issue

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Wrong type at constant pool index
	at com.ibm.oti.reflect.AnnotationParser.getUTF8At(Native Method)
	at com.ibm.oti.reflect.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotation(AnnotationParser.java:122)
	at com.ibm.oti.reflect.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotations(AnnotationParser.java:57)
	at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredAnnotations(Class.java:1652)
	at java.lang.Class.getAnnotations(Class.java:1609)
	at java.lang.Class.getAnnotation(Class.java:1589)
	at org.springframework.core.annotation.AnnotationUtils.getAnnotation(AnnotationUtils.java:69)
	at org.springframework.transaction.annotation.SpringTransactionAnnotationParser.parseTransactionAnnotation(SpringTransactionAnnotationParser.java:38)
	at org.springframework.transaction.annotation.AnnotationTransactionAttributeSource.determineTransactionAttribute(AnnotationTransactionAttributeSource.java:134)
	at org.springframework.transaction.annotation.AnnotationTransactionAttributeSource.findTransactionAttribute(AnnotationTransactionAttributeSource.java:118)
	at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.AbstractFallbackTransactionAttributeSource.computeTransactionAttribute(AbstractFallbackTransactionAttributeSource.java:152)
	at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.AbstractFallbackTransactionAttributeSource.getTransactionAttribute(AbstractFallbackTransactionAttributeSource.java:99)
	at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionAttributeSourcePointcut.matches(TransactionAttributeSourcePointcut.java:36)
	at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.canApply(AopUtils.java:226)
	at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.canApply(AopUtils.java:263)
	at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.findAdvisorsThatCanApply(AopUtils.java:295)
	at org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.findAdvisorsThatCanApply(AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.java:117)
	at org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.findEligibleAdvisors(AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.java:87)
	at org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.getAdvicesAndAdvisorsForBean(AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.java:68)
	at org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AbstractAutoProxyCreator.wrapIfNecessary(AbstractAutoProxyCreator.java:359)
	at org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AbstractAutoProxyCreator.postProcessAfterInitialization(AbstractAutoProxyCreator.java:322)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyBeanPostProcessorsAfterInitialization(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:407)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1461)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:519)
	... 32 more

[aravicamp]

i am also facing the same issue. anyone has the solution for this?