Problem while using transaction in spring frame work

[biju]

hi,
i got a problem in using spring db declarative transaction.when i put my dao class in transaction i am getting exception while starting the server as

"org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionS toreException: Error registering bean with name 'test' defined in resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml] of ServletContext: Class that bean class [org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.Transa ctionProxyFactoryBean] depends on not found; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/aopalliance/aop/Advice"

my code is as below

the buisiness class from where i will be calling my dao
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public void setDataAccessObject(TestSpring tst) {
this.ts = tst;
}
public boolean CreateRetirementDataObject(RetirementPlanBean rpb) {

try {
ts.myQuery();
return true;
} catch (Exception e) {
return false;
}
}

my dao method
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public String myQuery() {
String name = "";

try {

jt = new JdbcTemplate();

jt.setDataSource(dataSource);
name =
(String) jt.queryForObject(
"select name from retiredb where Id=1",
java.lang.String.class);



} catch (Exception ee) {



}

return name;

}

//setting data source
public void setDataSource(DataSource dataSource) {
this.dataSource = dataSource;
}


and my entries in xml files applicationContext.xml
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<bean id="propertyConfigurer" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.Pr opertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
<property name="locations">
<list>
<value>WEB-INF/jdbc.properties</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>

<bean id="retirementBusinessObject" class="beans.RetirementBusinessObject">
<property name="dataAccessObject"><ref bean="testSpring"/></property>
</bean>

<bean id="test" class="org.springframework.transaction.interceptor .TransactionProxyFactoryBean">
<property name="transactionManager"><ref bean="transactionManager"/></property>
<property name="target"><ref local="retirementBusinessObject"/></property>
<property name="transactionAttributes">
<props>
</props>
</property>

</bean>
----------------------------

dataAcessContext-Local.xml
---------------------------------

<bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close">
<property name="driverClassName"><value>sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOd bcDriver</value></property>
<property name="url"><value>jdbc:odbc:Retirement</value></property>
</bean>


<bean id="testSpring" class="beans.TestSpring">
<property name="dataSource"><ref local="dataSource"/></property>

</bean>


<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.transaction.PlatformTra nsactionManager">
<property name="dataSource"><ref local="dataSource"/></property>
</bean>

[2devnull]

You need aopalliance.jar in you WEB-INF/lib directory. It is shipped with the Spring distribution.