Parsing applicationContext.xml renders a `java.lang.NoSuchMethodError`. Could this be caused by dependency issues?

Question

I am invoking a test method (Junit) with an annotated application context (@ContextConfiguration(locations={\"classpath:applicationContext.xml\"})). The test fa

Answer 1

As Jens and Xstian hinted, there was a problem with the version of some of the jars in my classpath. Problem solved by doing a mvn clean install -U. I tried that before posting this question, but sometimes it just does not seem to do the trick, while sometimes it does.

Answer 2

I just encountered this with Spring 4.1.1.RELEASE, Spring Security 3.2.5.RELEASE and OAuth2 2.0.3.RELEASE. It was OAuth2 that needed the getEnvironment method.

One of the Spring Security dependencies downloaded Spring Beans 4.0.3.RELEASE which does not have getEnvironment. I fixed by explicitly defining spring-beans 4.1.1.RELEASE as a dependency.