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Maven project sourcing old spring dependencies not part of the pom.xml in Eclipse

My maven java project is sourcing versions of spring libraries that are not defined in my pom.xml
My pom.xml does not have any references to v3.0.5 for spring dependencies.
A snippet of my pom.xml:
<properties>
<org.springframework.version>3.2.4.RELEASE</org.springframework.version>
</properties>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context-support</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-jdbc</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-oxm</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
However when I do a mvn clean -U compile package, I am getting v3.0.5 of the spring libraries in my target:
Can someone help me with how I can remove the outdated/ out of version spring libraries which seem to be sourced 'automatically' without being included in my pom please.
Thanks

Add an element in the element by which the problematic jar is getting fetched or included.these unwanted version of the libs are coming as transitive dependency from one of the mentioned dependency entry in your POM.xml. Use you eclipse or IntelliJ dependence tree to din out the jar that is bringing those transitive dependency and then exclude them fro that element .
<project>
...
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>sample.ProjectA</groupId>
<artifactId>Project-A</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
<exclusions>
<exclusion> <!-- declare the exclusion here -->
<groupId>sample.ProjectB</groupId>
<artifactId>Project-B</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
For finding transitive dependency tree / list : How can I view transitive dependencies of a Maven pom.xml file?

Running Spring application returns ClassNotFounfException : ApplicationStartup

I am trying to run a simple email sending application with Spring and Javax Mail API using Maven, however on launch it returns an exception.
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/springframework/core/metrics/ApplicationStartup
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.<init>(SpringApplication.java:233)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.<init>(SpringApplication.java:246)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1306)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1295)
at Email.Email.run(Email.java:19)
at Menu.Menu.menu(Menu.java:28)
at org.example.Main.main(Main.java:25)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.core.metrics.ApplicationStartup
at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:641)
at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:188)
at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:521)
... 7 more
My pom.xml dependencies are like this
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
<version>2.19.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
<version>2.19.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
<version>5.2.9.RELEASE</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.mail</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.mail</artifactId>
<version>1.6.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context-support</artifactId>
<version>5.3.23</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-mail</artifactId>
<version>2.7.5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<version>2.7.5</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework.boot/spring-boot -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot</artifactId>
<version>2.7.5</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework/spring-context -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
<version>5.3.23</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework/spring-webmvc -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>5.3.23</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework.boot/spring-boot-autoconfigure -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-autoconfigure</artifactId>
<version>2.7.5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>RELEASE</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
<artifactId>junit-jupiter</artifactId>
<version>RELEASE</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
Tried downgrading to 2.3.3, got a different exception: ClassNotFound: NativeDetector instead of ApplicationStartup.
mvn clean installing changed nothing, deleting and reinstalling contents of .m2 folder didn't help either.
Would be grateful to hear an advice. Thank you.

Caused by: org.aspectj.apache.bcel.classfile.ClassFormatException: File: 'java.lang.CharSequence': Invalid byte tag in constant pool: 18

I am trying to upgrade my web application from JDK 1.7 to JDK 1.8.
I have changed the compiler and targeted JDK to 1.8 for my application and in testing environment the JDK property has been updated to jdk 1.8 in was server.
But I am getting the below error:
WARN [server.startup : 0] o.s.w.c.s.XmlWebApplicationContext [AbstractApplicationContext.java:487] Exception encountered during context initialization - cancelling refresh attempt
With some more bean initialization failed and cause by as below:-
Caused by: org.aspectj.apache.bcel.classfile.ClassFormatException: File: 'java.lang.CharSequence': Invalid byte tag in constant pool: 18
Solutions tried:-
Aspectjrt and aspectweaver jars are already been updated to 1.8.13 and also tried using 1.9.6 for the same
but this did not resolve the issue.
The plugin used is as below:-
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectj-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.10</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>compile</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<complianceLevel>1.8</complianceLevel>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>
<version>1.8.13</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectjtools</artifactId>
<version>1.8.13</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>
Can anyone please provide some suggestion to fix this issue??
Adding the spring dependencies
<properties>
<springframework-version>4.1.1.RELEASE</springframework-version>
</properties>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>${springframework-version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
<version>${springframework-version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context-support</artifactId>
<version>${springframework-version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-expression</artifactId>
<version>${springframework-version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
<version>${springframework-version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId>
<version>${springframework-version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
<version>${springframework-version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-jdbc</artifactId>
<version>${springframework-version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId>
<version>${springframework-version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
<version>${springframework-version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
<version>${springframework-version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-aspects</artifactId>
<version>${springframework-version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
<version>${springframework-version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-core</artifactId>
<version>${spring-security.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-web</artifactId>
<version>${spring-security.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-ldap</artifactId>
<version>${spring-security.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-config</artifactId>
<version>${spring-security.version}</version>
</dependency>

Thanks for the response.
Actually I managed it to resolve by deleting the older jars of aspectj(1.6 version) in testing server.
Somehow, the server was having the old jars which were not getting cleared up with each deployment.
So after deleting those jars, application got up.

maven Missing artifact javax.transaction:jta:jar:1.0.1B

I know i probably put together different versions which don't work together but i don;t know how to figure out where. I'm new to maven and spring and this is a common problem i have so can you tell me what's wrong here and how to recognize on the future incompatible versions ?
Here is my pom.xml:
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>aopalliance</groupId>
<artifactId>aopalliance</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectjweaver</artifactId>
<version>1.8.6</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.gatein.common</groupId>
<artifactId>common-logging</artifactId>
<version>2.2.2.Final</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId>
<version>4.2.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-asm</artifactId>
<version>3.1.4.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>servletapi</groupId>
<artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>2.4-20040521</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
<version>4.2.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
<version>4.2.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
<version>4.2.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-expression</artifactId>
<version>4.2.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-jdbc</artifactId>
<version>1.2.6</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-config</artifactId>
<version>4.0.2.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-core</artifactId>
<version>4.0.2.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-web</artifactId>
<version>4.0.2.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
<version>4.2.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>4.2.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId>
<version>4.2.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
I follow different tutorials while creating projects and because they are older I always face the dependency problem
http://www.studytrails.com/frameworks/spring/spring-security-using-xml.jsp

First try to create the property values as such (in pom.xml):
<properties>
<spring.version>4.2.0.RELEASE</spring.version>
</properties>
<!-- both properties as dependencies are directly under `project`!, don't use
`dependencyManagement` until later -->
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
which makes it easier to update all at the same time.
To see whether different dependencies are used, open the pom.xml (in Eclipse)
Click on the Dependency Hierarchy tab (bottom)
Here you can see whether there are conflicts between dependencies, and how they are related with your code and the hierarchy of directly or indirectly imported dependencies.
Also what helps, is to check whether you've imported the last versions, by calling (see https://stackoverflow.com/a/2687228/928952 for an example)
mvn versions:display-dependency-updates
One more thing, wrt versions (see version update policy):
7.1 How Version Numbers Work in Maven Maven's versioning scheme uses the following standards:
MajorVersion
MinorVersion
IncrementalVersion
BuildNumber
Qualifier For
example:
MajorVersion: 1.2.1
MinorVersion: 2.0
IncrementalVersion: 1.2-SNAPSHOT
BuildNumber: 1.4.2-12
Qualifier: 1.2-beta-2

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I have an application using Spring-3.2.X and cxf-2.7.5
I'm importing cxf into my spring's app context like so:
<import resource="classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf.xml" />
<import resource="classpath:cxf.xml" />
However, When I run the tests I end up with the following exception:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to load ApplicationContext
at org.springframework.test.context.CacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.loadContext(CacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.java:99)
at org.springframework.test.context.TestContext.getApplicationContext(TestContext.java:122)
at org.springframework.test.context.web.ServletTestExecutionListener.setUpRequestContextIfNecessary(ServletTestExecutionListener.java:154)
at org.springframework.test.context.web.ServletTestExecutionListener.prepareTestInstance(ServletTestExecutionListener.java:100)
at org.springframework.test.context.TestContextManager.prepareTestInstance(TestContextManager.java:312)
at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.createTest(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:211)
at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner$1.runReflectiveCall(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:288)
at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:12)
at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.methodBlock(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:284)
at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:231)
at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:88)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:238)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:63)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:236)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:53)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:229)
at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.statements.RunBeforeTestClassCallbacks.evaluate(RunBeforeTestClassCallbacks.java:61)
at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.statements.RunAfterTestClassCallbacks.evaluate(RunAfterTestClassCallbacks.java:71)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:309)
at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.run(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:174)
at org.junit.runner.JUnitCore.run(JUnitCore.java:160)
at com.intellij.junit4.JUnit4IdeaTestRunner.startRunnerWithArgs(JUnit4IdeaTestRunner.java:74)
at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.prepareStreamsAndStart(JUnitStarter.java:202)
at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.main(JUnitStarter.java:65)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:120)
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'cxf' defined in class path resource [META-INF/cxf/cxf.xml]: Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [org.apache.cxf.bus.spring.SpringBus]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is org.apache.cxf.bus.extension.ExtensionException: Could not load extension class org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.AssertionBuilderRegistryImpl.
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.instantiateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1037)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBeanInstance(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:983)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:487)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:458)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:296)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:223)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:293)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:194)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:628)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:932)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:479)
at org.springframework.test.context.web.AbstractGenericWebContextLoader.loadContext(AbstractGenericWebContextLoader.java:128)
at org.springframework.test.context.web.AbstractGenericWebContextLoader.loadContext(AbstractGenericWebContextLoader.java:60)
at org.springframework.test.context.support.AbstractDelegatingSmartContextLoader.delegateLoading(AbstractDelegatingSmartContextLoader.java:100)
at org.springframework.test.context.support.AbstractDelegatingSmartContextLoader.loadContext(AbstractDelegatingSmartContextLoader.java:248)
at org.springframework.test.context.CacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.loadContextInternal(CacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.java:64)
at org.springframework.test.context.CacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.loadContext(CacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.java:91)
... 28 more
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [org.apache.cxf.bus.spring.SpringBus]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is org.apache.cxf.bus.extension.ExtensionException: Could not load extension class org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.AssertionBuilderRegistryImpl.
at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:163)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.SimpleInstantiationStrategy.instantiate(SimpleInstantiationStrategy.java:87)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.instantiateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1030)
... 44 more
Caused by: org.apache.cxf.bus.extension.ExtensionException: Could not load extension class org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.AssertionBuilderRegistryImpl.
at org.apache.cxf.bus.extension.Extension.tryClass(Extension.java:173)
at org.apache.cxf.bus.extension.Extension.getClassObject(Extension.java:185)
at org.apache.cxf.bus.extension.ExtensionManagerImpl.activateAllByType(ExtensionManagerImpl.java:138)
at org.apache.cxf.bus.extension.ExtensionManagerBus.<init>(ExtensionManagerBus.java:126)
at org.apache.cxf.bus.extension.ExtensionManagerBus.<init>(ExtensionManagerBus.java:138)
at org.apache.cxf.bus.spring.SpringBus.<init>(SpringBus.java:47)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:148)
... 46 more
Caused by: java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: Implementing class
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:632)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:616)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:283)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:58)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:197)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:632)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:616)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:283)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:58)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:197)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)
at org.apache.cxf.bus.extension.Extension.tryClass(Extension.java:169)
... 56 more
From reading What causes java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError? it looks like IncompatibleClassChangeError - Means I probably have conflicting library versions on my classpath. I can't tell from the stack trace which class/library is being duplicated.
My POM looks like so:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<properties>
<wicket.version>1.5.11</wicket.version>
<spring.version>3.2.6.RELEASE</spring.version>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>windows-1252</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<netbeans.hint.deploy.server>Tomcat60</netbeans.hint.deploy.server>
<bootClassPath>
${env.JRE_6_HOME}\lib\rt.jar;${env.JAVA_HOME}\lib\tools.jar;${env.JRE_6_HOME}\lib\jsse.jar;
</bootClassPath>
<toolsDir>${env.JAVA_HOME}\lib</toolsDir>
<jsseDir>${env.JAVA_HOME}\jre\lib</jsseDir>
<m2Repository>${env.USERPROFILE}/.m2/repository</m2Repository>
</properties>
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
<version>1.6.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.wicket</groupId>
<artifactId>wicket</artifactId>
<version>${wicket.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.wicket</groupId>
<artifactId>wicket-core</artifactId>
<version>${wicket.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.wicket</groupId>
<artifactId>wicket-extensions</artifactId>
<version>${wicket.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.wicket</groupId>
<artifactId>wicket-datetime</artifactId>
<version>${wicket.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.wicket</groupId>
<artifactId>wicket-spring</artifactId>
<version>${wicket.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-expression</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-web</artifactId>
<version>3.2.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-config</artifactId>
<version>3.2.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-collections</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>
<version>3.2</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<!-- shared look/functionality -->
<dependency>
<groupId>us.ak.state.revenue.cssd</groupId>
<artifactId>myAlaska</artifactId>
<version>1.6.2</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.apache.wicket</groupId>
<artifactId>wicket-datetime</artifactId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<groupId>commons-collections</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>us.ak.state.revenue.cssd</groupId>
<artifactId>doc</artifactId>
<version>1.6.2</version>
</dependency>
<!-- WICKET DEPENDENCIES -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.wicket</groupId>
<artifactId>wicket-datetime</artifactId>
<version>${wicket.version}</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.apache.wicket</groupId>
<artifactId>wicket-core</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<!-- JUNIT DEPENDENCY FOR TESTING -->
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.11</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- SPRING Testing -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
<!-- TODO: once unit tests work test if this should be test scoped -->
</dependency>
<!-- Make Sure CXF starts properly -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-config</artifactId>
<version>3.2.0.RELEASE</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-web</artifactId>
<version>3.2.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Spring Transactional Support -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectjweaver</artifactId>
<version>1.7.2</version>
</dependency>
<!-- LDAP Authentication -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.novell.ldap</groupId>
<artifactId>jldap</artifactId>
<version>4.3</version>
</dependency>
<!-- PDF report Generation -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.lowagie</groupId>
<artifactId>itext</artifactId>
<version>2.0.4</version>
</dependency>
<!-- email -->
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.mail</groupId>
<artifactId>mail</artifactId>
<version>1.5.0-b01</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun</groupId>
<artifactId>jsse</artifactId>
<version>1.6.0_21</version>
<scope>system</scope>
<systemPath>${env.JRE_6_HOME}\lib\jsse.jar</systemPath>
</dependency>
<!-- Mainframe/Broker -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.softwareAG.entirex</groupId>
<artifactId>entirex-runtime</artifactId>
<version>9.5.1</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Unknown / Miscl -->
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-collections</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>
<version>3.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-dbcp</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-dbcp</artifactId>
<version>1.2.2</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.0.2</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.6</source>
<target>1.6</target>
<encoding>${project.build.sourceEncoding}</encoding>
<compilerArguments>
<bootclasspath>
${bootClassPath};
</bootclasspath>
<endorseddirs>
${m2Repository}/javax/xml/bind/jaxb-api/2.2.6/;${m2Repository}/org/apache/cxf/cxf-rt-frontend-jaxws/2.7.5/;${toolsDir};${jsseDir};
</endorseddirs>
</compilerArguments>
<compilerArgument> -Xlint:unchecked </compilerArgument>
<showDeprecation>true</showDeprecation>
<showWarnings>true</showWarnings>
<optimize>true</optimize>
<debug>true</debug>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>com.atlassian.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-clover2-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.2.2</version>
<configuration>
<!-- License info removed -->
<excludes>
<exclude>**/SessionFactoryBean*.java</exclude>
</excludes>
<cloverDatabase>${project.basedir}/.clover/db</cloverDatabase>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>clover</id>
<phase>generate-sources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>instrument</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<!-- moves the test results outside of clover-->
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.10</version>
<configuration>
<reportsDirectory>
${project.build.directory}/surefire-reports
</reportsDirectory>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
MyAlaska is a shared library that another project is successfully using,
with the following dependencies:
<!-- another shared jar sits here that pulls in Wicket,Look-feel stuff -->
<!-- ADFS attempt #2, this time with WS-Federation/SAML support -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
<artifactId>cxf-rt-frontend-jaxws</artifactId>
<version>2.7.5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
<artifactId>cxf-rt-transports-http-hc</artifactId>
<version>2.7.5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId>
<version>2.2.6</version>
</dependency>
<!--https WS stuff-->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
<artifactId>cxf-rt-rs-security-sso-saml</artifactId>
<version>2.7.5</version>
</dependency>
<!-- specifically adds SAML/federation to the stack -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.cxf.fediz</groupId>
<artifactId>fediz-core</artifactId>
<version>1.1.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.cxf.fediz</groupId>
<artifactId>fediz-cxf</artifactId>
<version>1.1.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.cxf.fediz</groupId>
<artifactId>fediz-spring</artifactId>
<version>1.1.0</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Spring Security integration-->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-web</artifactId>
<version>3.1.3.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.wicket</groupId>
<artifactId>wicket-spring</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- configuration update "magic" -->
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-configuration</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-configuration</artifactId>
<version>1.9</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.11</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
<version>3.0.7.RELEASE</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
If you're still here, thanks for reading.
What am I doing wrong?
Why won't CXF/Spring start, and how do I fix it?
UPDATE:
After running the debugger the offending class appears to be:
org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.AssertionBuilderRegistryImpl
which resides in cxf-rt-ws-policy-2.7.5
As far as I can tell though that's the only place for that jar and It's only included once.
JHades Update
When I initially ran the report Log4J and Log4J-extras were overlapping, so was
JavaMail-1.5 and geronimo-javamail_1.4_spec. I've resolved those uses.
report results:
>>>> Jar overlap report:
Total number of classes with more than one version: 0
Both Jhades and mvn dependency:tree -Ddetail=true inidicate that cxf-rt-ws-policy is 2.7.5 just like every other cxf jar version.

So I it turns out my IDE intellij-dea was messing up my build.
I thought that since I had maven configured, that it would just be running pure maven, under the hood.
In my IDE I had configured an installed Directory for Axis2-1.6.0 to be used before my maven dependencies. Axis-2 was left over from an OLD version of my application and held duplicates of a lot dependencies including something called Neethi, which I've seen listed else where as a potential source of this error with CXF.

It seems the version of class org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.AssertionBuilderRegistryImpl that is being loaded is invalid.
You can check the WAR to see if there are any duplicate classes using this command (from JHades, a tool I've made), see here for the duplicate classes report:
java -jar jhades-standalone-report.jar path/to/war/webapp.war
The report should give something like this:
>>>> Jar overlap report:
poi-3.5-FINAL-20090928.jar overlaps with poi-3.7-20101029.jar - total overlapping classes: 990
xercesImpl-2.7.0.jar overlaps with xercesImpl-2.9.1.jar - total overlapping classes: 867
xalan-2.6.0.jar overlaps with xalan-2.7.1.jar - total overlapping classes: 711
bcel-5.2.jar overlaps with xalan-2.7.1.jar - total overlapping classes: 361
xml-apis-2.9.1.jar overlaps with xml-apis.jar - total overlapping classes: 301
jasperreports-applet-3.7.1.jar overlaps with jasperreports-javaflow-3.7.1.jar - total overlapping classes: 254
jasperreports-3.7.1.jar overlaps with jasperreports-applet-3.7.1.jar - total overlapping classes: 254
...
Total number of classes with more than one version: 6169
Also it's possible to query the classpath for all versions of the class and for the currently used version:
System.out.println("All versions of AssertionBuilderRegistryImpl:" + getClass().getClassLoader().getResources("org/apache/cxf/ws/policy/AssertionBuilderRegistryImpl.class"));
System.out.println("Currently used version of AssertionBuilderRegistryImpl:" + getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("org/apache/cxf/ws/policy/AssertionBuilderRegistryImpl.class"));
There are a couple of possibilities: either multiple versions exist, and only one is correct. In that case exclude the jars with the wrong versions in maven.
If only one version exists, then it's the wrong one, use mvn dependency:tree -Ddetail=true to find why it's included, and update the pom to load the correct version.