Hibernate Validator java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ConfigurationImpl

Question

I have read this and this, but that didn\'t help...

I am using hibernate validator with the following versions/dependencies:

Answer 1

Add this in spring-servelt.xml

 <beans:bean id="validator" class="org.springframework.validation.beanvalidation.LocalValidatorFactoryBean"> </beans:bean> 

and following jars

1. hibernate-validator-6.0.17.Final.jar
2. validation-api-2.0.1.Final.jar
3. classmate-1.3.4.jar
4. jboss-logging-3.3.2.Final.jar

then all will work fine.

Happy to help...