Deploying SpringWS application on Websphere without any database component throwing Error creating bean with name defaultValidator - spring

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Hi have been trying to deploy a SpringWS Application onto Websphere-8.5.5.12 application server. but It's throwing the following error. Though I understood the error but not able to solve it.
[2/10/20 23:24:23:348 IST] 0000009d SystemErr R com.ibm.ws.exception.RuntimeWarning: com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.exception.WebAppNotLoadedException: Failed to load webapp: Failed to load webapp: Error creating bean with name 'defaultValidator' defined in class path resource [org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/validation/ValidationAutoConfiguration.class]: Invocation of init method failed&#59; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax/validation/Configuration.getDefaultParameterNameProvider()Ljavax/validation/ParameterNameProvider&#59; (loaded from file:/C:/Program Files (x86)/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/plugins/javax.j2ee.validation.jar by org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.DefaultClassLoader#20dbc652) called from class org.springframework.validation.beanvalidation.LocalValidatorFactoryBean (loaded from file:/C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/AppSrv01/installedApps/DDRFFSN2Node01Cell/Pru_FeService-1-0_0_1-SNAPSHOT_war.ear/Pru_FeService-1-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.war/WEB-INF/lib/spring-context-5.2.3.RELEASE.jar by
com.ibm.ws.classloader.CompoundClassLoader#b09dd62[war:Pru_FeService-1-0_0_1-SNAPSHOT_war/Pru_FeService-1-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.war]
The service is a soap service without any database component or Hibernate or anything else. Plain vanilla SpringWS
The Pom.xml is as given below.
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.2.4.RELEASE</version>
<relativePath /> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>
<groupId>com.test.ipru.api</groupId>
<artifactId>Pru_FeService-1</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>XXXX_FE</name>
<description>Project for FeService</description>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<properties>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
<maven-jar-plugin.version>3.1.1</maven-jar-plugin.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web-services</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
<scope>runtime</scope>
<optional>true</optional>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>wsdl4j</groupId>
<artifactId>wsdl4j</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>net.sf.dozer</groupId>
<artifactId>dozer</artifactId>
<version>5.5.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.springfox</groupId>
<artifactId>springfox-swagger-ui</artifactId>
<version>2.8.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.springfox</groupId>
<artifactId>springfox-swagger2</artifactId>
<version>2.8.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.xml.ws</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxws-rt</artifactId>
<version>2.3.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-validation</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.validation</groupId>
<artifactId>validation-api</artifactId>
<version>2.0.1.Final</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
I have been looking into StackOverflow for days now but none of the solutions seem to work.
Any help would be appreciated very much