Java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: [Lorg/hibernate/engine/FilterDefinition; Exception encountered while running Spring4.x and Hibernate 4.x Webapp - spring

Question

-- I am trying to run a Spring 4.x, Hibernate 4.x web application with Tomcat7 and Java 8 in Eclipse Mars IDE.
This is a basic webapp which will insert values in SQL database using SpringMVC, Hibernate and Maven.
-- While starting tomcat I am getting the exception :Java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: [Lorg/hibernate/engine/FilterDefinition.
-- I tried searching online for the solution and found the configuration to be done to resolve this exception which is already there in my code.
The solution says to use the below configuration in dispatcher-servlet xml file for sessionFactory and transactionManger.
<bean id="sessionFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager">
-- To check if its a jar compatibility issue did hit and trial with lot many combination of Spring4 and Hibernate4 versions, like Hibernate Version as : 4.3.5.Final and Spring 4.0.3.RELEASE.
-- As its giving NoClassDefFoundError I checked in Hibernate-Core jar. The FilterDefinition class is unavailable at the mentioned path and its available in hibernate-core-4.3.5.Final.zip\org\hibernate\engine\spi path. So probably this exception is coming.
-- Kindly let me know how to avoid this exception.
pom.xml
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>MavenWeb</groupId>
<artifactId>MavenWeb</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<properties>
<java.version>1.6</java.version>
<org.springframework-version>4.0.3.RELEASE</org.springframework-version>
<hibernate.version>3.6.9.Final</hibernate.version>
<slf4j.version>1.7.5</slf4j.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework-version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework-version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework-version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Spring ORM support -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework-version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Logging with SLF4J-->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
<version>${slf4j.version}</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- Hibernate -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
<version>${hibernate.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
<version>${hibernate.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<version>5.1.9</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-dbcp</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-dbcp</artifactId>
<version>1.4</version>
</dependency>
<!-- for compilation -->
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>3.1.0</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.servlet.jsp-api</artifactId>
<version>2.3.1</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- jstl dependency -->
<dependency>
<groupId>jstl</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>