Spring3 NoClassDefFoundError aopalliance/.../MethodInterceptor tx:annotation-driven

[jgarrison]

One of our bean definition XML files contains

<tx:annotation-driven/>

which causes a NoClassDefFoundError looking for "org/aopalliance/intercept/MethodInterceptor". Removing the tx:annotation-driven clause eliminates the error.

Google returns very old hits from Spring 1 having to do with not including the aopalliance classes. These are not included in Spring 3, and I would rather not have to pull additional jars (Spring is supposed to be self-contained, right?)

Are these old internal references that should have been updated to use Spring's AOP instead?

[ramnivas]

You need aopalliance jar file in application's classpath. You may get it from http://www.springsource.com/reposito...ersi on=1.0.0 or from the Maven central repository.

-Ramnivas

[jgarrison]

Is this a permanent requirement, or just a stopgap until the next Spring release?

[ramnivas]

Adding aopalliance jar has been and will be a requirement. Prior to 3.0, Spring used to ship the required jars in a distribution (you still were required to add those jars to the classpath). There is a JIRA issue that will make such a distribution available in a future 3.x release.

-Ramnivas