Spring Security Warning: Class AuthorityUtils is abstract?

Question

Since moving to Spring Security 3.2.5.RELEASE and Spring 4.1.1.RELEASE we are getting a Spring Bean Validation warning in Eclipse (Luna).

The exact warning is:

Answer 1

This is a bug in version 3.6.0 of the Spring Tool Suite, as Luke Taylor pointed out. The bug report is at https://issuetracker.springsource.com/browse/STS-3875, and won't be fixed before STS version 3.6.3. You can examine the code for this class at http://www.docjar.com/html/api/org/springframework/orm/jpa/SharedEntityManagerCreator.java.html

[Edit] The bug report notes that this bug is now fixed. The fix is in version 3.6.4