Error : java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.objectweb.asm.ClassWriter.(I)V

Question

I am developing a small Spring application. I have to store the details of the student information in the database. I have developed one SimpleFormController. I have used Ne

Answer 1

You have an incompatibility between the version of ASM required by Hibernate (asm-1.5.3.jar) and the one required by Spring. But, actually, I wonder why you have asm-2.2.3.jar on your classpath (ASM is bundled in spring.jar and spring-core.jar to avoid such problems AFAIK). See HHH-2222.

Answer 2

Update your pom.xml

<dependency>
  <groupId>asm</groupId>
  <artifactId>asm</artifactId>
  <version>3.1</version>
</dependency>

Answer 3

I had the same error when initializing Spring on startup, using some different library versions, but everything worked when I got my versions in this order in the classpath (the other libraries in the cp were not important):

1. asm-3.1.jar
2. cglib-nodep-2.1_3.jar
3. asm-attrs-1.5.3.jar