Error on creating first Hello world application using Spring mvc

Question

First of all, I want to apologize for maybe duplicate topic but I couldn\'t find the answer to my question.

I started today with spring mvc and i have some issues wi

Answer 1

I ran into the same problem using the sample project from https://github.com/cheptsov/SpringMVCApp and changed the Spring Framework version to

<spring.version>4.1.1.RELEASE</spring.version>

in the pom.xml.

Answer 2

The ClassReader class constructor shown in your stack trace has a piece of code commented in version 4+ (in other words, it's there in version 3)

// checks the class version
/* SPRING PATCH: REMOVED FOR JDK 1.8 BYTECODE COMPATIBILITY
if (readShort(off + 6) > Opcodes.V1_7) {
    throw new IllegalArgumentException();
}
*/

Basically, you can't use Java 8 with Spring 3 (there is no Spring 3.5.0). Upgrade to Spring 4 or downgrade to Java 7.