Why there is a NoSuchMethod exception when knowledge session is created ?

Issue

When new knowledge session is being created, like this:

public class JPAKnowledgeServiceTest extends HttpServlet {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    private StatefulKnowledgeSession knowledgeSession;


    @Override
    public void init() {

        EntityManagerFactory emf = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("DroolsPersistence");

        Environment environment = KnowledgeBaseFactory.newEnvironment();
        environment.set(EnvironmentName.ENTITY_MANAGER_FACTORY, emf);

        KnowledgeBuilder knowledgeBuilder = KnowledgeBuilderFactory.newKnowledgeBuilder();
        KnowledgeBase knowledgeBase = knowledgeBuilder.newKnowledgeBase();
        knowledgeSession = JPAKnowledgeService.newStatefulKnowledgeSession(knowledgeBase, null, environment);
    }


    protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {

        knowledgeSession.insert("Hello world");
    }
}

Following exception can be observed in the log:

15:07:05,075 ERROR [[JPAKnowledgeServiceTest]] Allocate exception for servlet JPAKnowledgeServiceTest
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.drools.SessionConfiguration.addProperties(Ljava/util/Properties;)V
        at org.drools.persistence.jpa.KnowledgeStoreServiceImpl.mergeConfig(KnowledgeStoreServiceImpl.java:135)
        at org.drools.persistence.jpa.KnowledgeStoreServiceImpl.newStatefulKnowledgeSession(KnowledgeStoreServiceImpl.java:54)
        at org.drools.persistence.jpa.JPAKnowledgeService.newStatefulKnowledgeSession(JPAKnowledgeService.java:122)
        at com.sample.drools.JPAKnowledgeServiceTest.init(JPAKnowledgeServiceTest.java:38)
        at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:212)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1048)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.allocate(StandardWrapper.java:777)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:129)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
        at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:183)
        at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:95)
        at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.process(SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.java:126)
        at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.invoke(SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.java:70)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
        at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
        at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.jca.CachedConnectionValve.invoke(CachedConnectionValve.java:158)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
        at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.request.ActiveRequestResponseCacheValve.internalProcess(ActiveRequestResponseCacheValve.java:74)
        at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.request.ActiveRequestResponseCacheValve.invoke(ActiveRequestResponseCacheValve.java:47)
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:330)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:829)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:599)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:451)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)