NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext.findAnnotationOnBean in JBoss EAP 5.x

Issue

• We are able to run our webapp application on JBoss Developer Studio (JBDS) 4.0 without any issues on my local development environment. When I port the application to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 5.1.2, it is giving error " Initialization of bean failed; nested exception NoSuchMethod as shown below:

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping': Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext.findAnnotationOnBean(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/Class;)Ljava/lang/annotation/Annotation;
  at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:480)
  at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory$1.run(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:409)
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Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext.findAnnotationOnBean(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/Class;)Ljava/lang/annotation/Annotation;
  at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping.determineUrlsForHandler(DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping.java:108)
  at org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.AbstractDetectingUrlHandlerMapping.detectHandlers(AbstractDetectingUrlHandlerMapping.java:80)
  at org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.AbstractDetectingUrlHandlerMapping.initApplicationContext(AbstractDetectingUrlHandlerMapping.java:58)
  at org.springframework.context.support.ApplicationObjectSupport.initApplicationContext(ApplicationObjectSupport.java:119)
  at org.springframework.web.context.support.WebApplicationObjectSupport.initApplicationContext(WebApplicationObjectSupport.java:71)
  at org.springframework.context.support.ApplicationObjectSupport.setApplicationContext(ApplicationObjectSupport.java:73)
  at org.springframework.context.support.ApplicationContextAwareProcessor.postProcessBeforeInitialization(ApplicationContextAwareProcessor.java:70)
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