java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.util.ReflectionUtils.makeAccessible (Ljava/lang/reflect/Constructor;)V

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Issue

  • We are deploying an application based in spring which seems to context initialization failed, we find this error in server.log:
2015-07-30 09:15:16,590 ERROR [org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader] (MSC service thread 1-5) Context initialization failed: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.util.ReflectionUtils.makeAccessible(Ljava/lang/reflect/Constructor;)V
    at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:99) [spring-beans-2.5.6.jar:2.5.6]
    at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:78) [spring-beans-2.5.6.jar:2.5.6]
    at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:249) [spring-2.5.6.jar:2.5.6]
    at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:199) [spring-2.5.6.jar:2.5.6]
    at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:45) [spring-2.5.6.jar:2.5.6]
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.contextListenerStart(StandardContext.java:3392) [jbossweb-7.0.17.Final-redhat-1-JBPAPP6-1709.jar:]
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3850) [jbossweb-7.0.17.Final-redhat-1-JBPAPP6-1709.jar:]
    at org.jboss.as.web.deployment.WebDeploymentService.start(WebDeploymentService.java:89) [jboss-as-web-7.1.3.Final-redhat-4.jar:7.1.3.Final-redhat-4]
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1811)
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1746)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) [rt.jar:1.7.0_09-icedtea]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [rt.jar:1.7.0_09-icedtea]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) [rt.jar:1.7.0_09-icedtea]

Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
    • 6.0.1
  • Spring

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