After upgrading to Spring Boot 1.4.0, NullPointerException in AbstractPlatformTransactionManager

Question

I have upgraded from Spring Boot 1.3.2 to 1.4.0, and now fail to start my application - My BeanPostProcessor invokes the 3d party open source Lazy Chopper, whi

Answer 1

I also encountered this problem. In my case, I just enabled Spring aspects tooling and built the project. It worked.

Answer 2

I had the very same problem. My fault was that due to wrong pointcut definition I ended up applying aspect onto TransactionManager (I had the standard one extended). So the null logger was the one of the CGLIB's generated extended class. The real bean had its logger nicely instantiated.