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

Question

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>

Answer 1

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.