Spring 2.0.0 - migrate gives error: NoClassDefFoundError: com/jayway/jsonpath/spi/mapper/JacksonMappingProvider - spring

Question

When migrating my Spring Boot 1.4.3-release application to Spring Boot 2.0.0. I get this error:
NoClassDefFoundError:
com/jayway/jsonpath/spi/mapper/JacksonMappingProvider
The Spring Boot Parent has the 2.0.0. The jsonpath jayway has the 2.2.0 version.
For the Jsonpath I use. I want to scan parts of the JSON, not map the whole json string to objects ... in this case.
import net.minidev.json.JSONArray;
import net.minidev.json.JSONObject;
import net.minidev.json.JSONValue;
What I am doing wrong?
SOLVED: there were 2 issues:
See below thanks to #Barath -- json-path for Spring Boot 2.0.0 needs at least the 2.4.0 version.
While upgrading the source part to Spring Boot 2.0.0 I forgot to remove the older version specification for the spring-boot-starter-test.
My pom.xml is:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
standard init
<!-- Use parent POM.xml -->
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.0.0.RELEASE</version>
<relativePath/>
</parent>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
<maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
<maven-jaxb2-plugin.version>0.13.3</maven-jaxb2-plugin.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-logging</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</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-data-rest</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- Chat websocket stuff -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-websocket</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-reactor-netty</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- logging -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-log4j2</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-datatype-jsr310</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- Database for Openshift -->
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<version>5.1.40</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.jsonwebtoken</groupId>
<artifactId>jjwt</artifactId>
<version>0.9.0</version>
</dependency>
<!-- JSON path -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.jayway.jsonpath</groupId>
<artifactId>json-path</artifactId>
<version>2.2.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
<artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
<version>4.5.6</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-codec</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-codec</artifactId>
<!--<version>1.9</version>-->
<version>1.10</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-crypto</artifactId>
<!--<version>4.2.3.RELEASE</version>-->
</dependency>
<!-- TESTING -->
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>geosolutions</finalName>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0</version>
<configuration>
<filesets>
<fileset>
<directory>src/main/webapp/</directory>
</fileset>
</filesets>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.6</version>
<configuration>
<failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.6.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>npm install</id>
<goals>
<goal>exec</goal>
</goals>
<phase>initialize</phase>
<configuration>
<executable>npm</executable>
<arguments>
<argument>install</argument>
</arguments>
</configuration>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>build Angular production code</id>
<goals>
<goal>exec</goal>
</goals>
<phase>compile</phase>
<configuration>
<executable>npm</executable>
<arguments>
<argument>run</argument>
<argument>build</argument>
<argument>--prod</argument>
</arguments>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<!-- for testing -->
<...>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>

Answer 1

As part of Spring-Boot 2.0.0.RELEASE, json-path version to be used is 2.4.0
<dependency>
<groupId>com.jayway.jsonpath</groupId>
<artifactId>json-path</artifactId>
<version>2.4.0</version>
</dependency>