Class Conflict when starting up Java project: ClassMetadataReadingVisitor has interface org.springframework.asm.ClassVisitor as super class

Question

I am developing a Java web project using the latest Spring framework version (3.2.2-RELEASE), but now I have a problem when the project is started up. The detail error is

Answer 1

I had similar issue and the root cause was other spring lib include spring-asm 3.1.0 as dependency.

Fixed this issue by exluding the 'spring-asm' from all configuration in my gradle build script.

configurations {
    all*.exclude group: 'org.springframework', module: 'spring-asm'
}