Error During deploying Spring application on Weblogic 12.1.3.0

Question

I am trying to deploy an application consisting of apache CXF, Spring and Hibernate libraries on weblogic server, the application leverages the JMS and dataSource from weblogic server.

However when I am trying to deploy the application, the deployment is failing with error :

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.aop.framework.AopProxyUtils.getSingletonTarget(Ljava/lang/Object;)Ljava/lang/Object;

I have researched this error on google but got nothing relevant to fix this. Please help me to fix this. Below is my pom.xml and spring applicationContext.xml

<dependencies>

<!-- CXF Dependencies -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
<artifactId>cxf-rt-frontend-jaxws</artifactId>
<version>${cxf.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
<artifactId>cxf-rt-transports-http</artifactId>
<version>${cxf.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.cxf.xjc-utils</groupId>
<artifactId>cxf-xjc-runtime</artifactId>
<version>${cxf.xjc-utils.version}</version>
</dependency>

<!-- Spring Dependencies -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-jdbc</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-expression</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-jms</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Hibernate Dependencies -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
<version>4.3.1.Final</version><!-- Use the same version for EHCache -->
</dependency>
<!-- Hibernate annotation -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate.common</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-commons-annotations</artifactId>
<version>4.0.4.Final</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
<version>4.3.1.Final</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate.javax.persistence</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-jpa-2.1-api</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0.Final</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Hibernate Dependencies Above -->
<dependency>
<groupId>antlr</groupId>
<artifactId>antlr</artifactId>
<version>2.7.7</version>
</dependency>


<dependency>
<groupId>javassist</groupId>
<artifactId>javassist</artifactId>
<version>3.12.0.GA</version>
</dependency>

<!-- Servlet API -->
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>${servletapi.version}</version>
</dependency>

<!-- Active MQ, Weblogic JMS Dependencies -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.activemq</groupId>
<artifactId>activemq-all</artifactId>
<version>5.15.3</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>com.oracle.weblogic</groupId>
<artifactId>weblogic-t3thinclient</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
</dependency>

</dependencies>  

===================ApplicationContext.xml========================

<context:component-scan base-package="com.wls.deployable.cxf"/>

<jee:jndi-lookup id="devUserDatasource" jndi-name="jdbc/devUserDatasource" expected-type="javax.sql.DataSource"/> 


<bean id="stock" class="com.wls.deployable.cxf.stockquote.StockQuotePortTypeImpl" />

<jaxws:endpoint id="stockService" implementor="#stock" address="/StockService" />

<bean id="jndiTemplate" class="org.springframework.jndi.JndiTemplate">
<property name="environment">
<props>
<prop key="java.naming.factory.initial">weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory</prop>
<prop key="java.naming.provider.url">t3://localhost:7001</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="queueConnectionFactory" class="org.springframework.jndi.JndiObjectFactoryBean">
<property name="jndiTemplate">
<ref bean="jndiTemplate" />
</property>
<property name="jndiName">
<value>/com/jms/dev/cf</value>
</property>
</bean>

<bean id="jmsDestinationResolver" class="org.springframework.jms.support.destination.JndiDestinationResolver">
<property name="jndiTemplate">
<ref bean="jndiTemplate" />
</property>
<property name="cache">
<value>true</value>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="jmsTemplate" class="org.springframework.jms.core.JmsTemplate">
<property name="connectionFactory">
<ref bean="queueConnectionFactory" />
</property>
<property name="destinationResolver">
<ref bean="jmsDestinationResolver" />
</property>
</bean>

Please let me know if anything else is required.

Answer 1

This error is because your web application is pulling in an older version of spring AOP, you need to pull spring-aop-5.0.5.RELEASE which contains the missing method.

How to get around the issue:

Spring AOP jar is being pulled into your application dependencies as a transitive dependency. To see which dependency in your POM file is causing to pull spring AOP jar you can see dependency hierarchy for your web application by opening its pom file in eclipse(or other IDE) and then searching for spring-aop , once you have spotted the direct dependency in your application's POM that requires spring AOP, you need to then change its version to latest so that it would then pull correct version of sprint-aop i.e. the version which contains the missing method org.springframework.aop.framework.AopProxyUtils.getSingletonTarget

For example there is a dependency in your application's POM say abc which has dependency on spring AOP, you need to change the version of abc to latest to solve the problem.

Any queries/clarifications! Please let me know!

Answer 2

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError is mostly due to JAR version conflict: another Spring AOP JAR is on the classpath before yours.