Application throws NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.util.ReflectionUtils.makeAccessible in EAP6

Issue

• Facing an error during deployment of war file in jboss.
• While deploying a Spring based application on JBoss EAP6, it throws the following exception:

15:24:58,871 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[jboss.web].[default-host].[/demoApp]] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 70) JBWEB000287: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.util.ReflectionUtils.makeAccessible(Ljava/lang/reflect/Constructor;)V
    at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:125) [org.springframework.beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar:3.0.5.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:104) [org.springframework.beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar:3.0.5.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:234) [spring.jar:2.0.5]
    at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:187) [spring.jar:2.0.5]
    at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:49) [spring.jar:2.0.5]
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.contextListenerStart(StandardContext.java:3339) [jbossweb-7.2.0.Final-redhat-1.jar:7.2.0.Final-redhat-1]
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3777) [jbossweb-7.2.0.Final-redhat-1.jar:7.2.0.Final-redhat-1]
    at org.jboss.as.web.deployment.WebDeploymentService.doStart(WebDeploymentService.java:156) [jboss-as-web-7.2.0.Final-redhat-8.jar:7.2.0.Final-redhat-8]
    at org.jboss.as.web.deployment.WebDeploymentService.access$000(WebDeploymentService.java:60) [jboss-as-web-7.2.0.Final-redhat-8.jar:7.2.0.Final-redhat-8]
    at org.jboss.as.web.deployment.WebDeploymentService$1.run(WebDeploymentService.java:93) [jboss-as-web-7.2.0.Final-redhat-8.jar:7.2.0.Final-redhat-8]
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]
    at org.jboss.threads.JBossThread.run(JBossThread.java:122)