Spring: nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/aopalliance/aop/Advice

Question

Stack trace:

Oct 24, 2014 8:12:04 AM org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext prepareRefresh
INFO: Refreshing org.         


        

Answer 1

Be totally sure you have the following in your pom.xml file:

    org.springframework
    spring-aop
    ${springframework.version}

According with your error stack trace.

Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/aopalliance/aop/Advice

The following is mandatory

    org.aspectj
    aspectjrt
    ${aspectj.version}


    org.aspectj
    aspectjweaver
    ${aspectj.version}

Of course you must set or configure each version, for Spring and AOP.

I did realize later you are not working with Maven, even with that in Maven Central Repository you are able to download the jars required according with my dependencies shared above