Application failed to start after upgrade to Spring 3.1

[mustangxu]

After I upgraded my projects from Spring 3.0.6 to 3.1 release, they cannot start in Glassfish, the error messages are:

WARN: Error in annotation processing: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/springframework/beans/factory/Aware
......
SEVERE: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.setEnvironment(Lorg/springframework/core/env/Environment;)V
	at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:87)
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:131)
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.obtainFreshBeanFactory(AbstractApplicationContext.java:522)
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:436)
	at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:384)
	at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:283)
	at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:111)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.contextListenerStart(StandardContext.java:4750)
	at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebModule.contextListenerStart(WebModule.java:550)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:5366)
	at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebModule.start(WebModule.java:498)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:917)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:901)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:733)
	at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebContainer.loadWebModule(WebContainer.java:2000)
	at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebContainer.loadWebModule(WebContainer.java:1651)
	at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebApplication.start(WebApplication.java:109)
	at org.glassfish.internal.data.EngineRef.start(EngineRef.java:130)
	at org.glassfish.internal.data.ModuleInfo.start(ModuleInfo.java:269)
	at org.glassfish.internal.data.ApplicationInfo.start(ApplicationInfo.java:294)
	at com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLifecycle.deploy(ApplicationLifecycle.java:462)
	at com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLifecycle.deploy(ApplicationLifecycle.java:240)
	at org.glassfish.deployment.admin.DeployCommand.execute(DeployCommand.java:382)
	at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$1.execute(CommandRunnerImpl.java:355)
	at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl.doCommand(CommandRunnerImpl.java:370)
	at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl.doCommand(CommandRunnerImpl.java:1064)
	at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl.access$1200(CommandRunnerImpl.java:96)
	at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$ExecutionContext.execute(CommandRunnerImpl.java:1244)
	at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$ExecutionContext.execute(CommandRunnerImpl.java:1232)
	at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.AdminAdapter.doCommand(AdminAdapter.java:459)
	at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.AdminAdapter.service(AdminAdapter.java:209)
	at com.sun.grizzly.tcp.http11.GrizzlyAdapter.service(GrizzlyAdapter.java:168)
	at com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.HK2Dispatcher.dispath(HK2Dispatcher.java:117)
	at com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.ContainerMapper.service(ContainerMapper.java:238)
	at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.invokeAdapter(ProcessorTask.java:828)
	at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.doProcess(ProcessorTask.java:725)
	at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.process(ProcessorTask.java:1019)
	at com.sun.grizzly.http.DefaultProtocolFilter.execute(DefaultProtocolFilter.java:225)
	at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.executeProtocolFilter(DefaultProtocolChain.java:137)
	at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.execute(DefaultProtocolChain.java:104)
	at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.execute(DefaultProtocolChain.java:90)
	at com.sun.grizzly.http.HttpProtocolChain.execute(HttpProtocolChain.java:79)
	at com.sun.grizzly.ProtocolChainContextTask.doCall(ProtocolChainContextTask.java:54)
	at com.sun.grizzly.SelectionKeyContextTask.call(SelectionKeyContextTask.java:59)
	at com.sun.grizzly.ContextTask.run(ContextTask.java:71)
	at com.sun.grizzly.util.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.doWork(AbstractThreadPool.java:532)
	at com.sun.grizzly.util.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.run(AbstractThreadPool.java:513)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)

It is claimed that Spring 3.1 is 100% compatitable with the previous versions 3.0.x, but for my project seems it is not. Should I do some changes to the old configurations?

[Marten Deinum]

Judging from the stack trace you have some old jars in your class path somewhere or have duplicate jars resulting in class loading issues.

[mustangxu]

Yeah, i use Maven for lib maintaince and use spring ldap 1.3 in my project, which depends on Spring 3.0.5. It is ok now after I exclude the old Spring libs

[KingAndrew]

Yeah, i use Maven for lib maintaince and use spring ldap 1.3 in my project, which depends on Spring 3.0.5. It is ok now after I exclude the old Spring libs

Could you please discribe how you excluded the old Spring libs? I'm using intellij/maven and need spring-web 3.1.0 but have 2.5.6 sticking around even though i explicitly have

<dependency>
			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
			<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
			<version>3.1.0.RELEASE</version>

		</dependency>

if you could describe how you got rid of the old references that would be a big help.

Thanks,

Andrew

[objectamit]

You need to identify which jar is actually responsible for bringing in the old jars and then go to its dependency declaration in POM and write something like

<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
<version>${spring.core.version}</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
<exclusions>
<!-- Exclude Commons Logging in favor of SLF4j -->
<exclusion>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>