Hibernate Validator java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ConfigurationImpl

Question

I have read this and this, but that didn\'t help...

I am using hibernate validator with the following versions/dependencies:

Answer 1

I would suspect multiple implementations of javax.el. That's usually what causes this sort of issues.

Check that you don't have another one with a different name.

If it's not that, add a checkpoint in the ConfigurationImpl constructor and check what's failing.