spring-webmvc 4.2.3 and 4.2.2 incompatible? - spring

Question

I am experimenting with Spring Security. The built-in login page can be displayed with:
spring-webmvc-4.2.2.RELEASE
spring-security-core-4.0.3.RELEASE
This is the good combination of jars:
But when I change to:
spring-webmvc-4.2.3.RELEASE
spring-security-core-4.0.3.RELEASE
This is the failedcombination of jars:
I encountered the following error when starting the tomcat. How could this minor change be in-compatible?
My pom.xml is quite simple as below, I only specify the org.springframework.version and org.springframework.security.version, which are both the latest. And all the others are transitive dependencies which I totally leave to Maven.
<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>mygroup</groupId>
<artifactId>mycloud-server</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<properties>
<org.springframework.version>4.2.3.RELEASE</org.springframework.version>
<org.springframework.security.version>4.0.3.RELEASE</org.springframework.security.version>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-web</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.security.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-config</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.security.version}</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<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.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.7</source>
<target>1.7</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
Dec 08, 2015 12:04:26 AM org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader initWebApplicationContext
SEVERE: Context initialization failed
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:
org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AutoProxyUtils.determineTargetClass(Lorg/springframework/beans/factory/config/ConfigurableListableBeanFactory;Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/Class;
at
org.springframework.context.event.EventListenerMethodProcessor.afterSingletonsInstantiated(EventListenerMethodProcessor.java:78)
at
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:792)
at
org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:838)
at
org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:537)
at
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:446)
at
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:328)
at
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:107)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4770)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5196)
at
org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1409)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1399)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262) at
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
at
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Dec 08, 2015 12:04:26 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext
listenerStart SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to
listener instance of class
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:
org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AutoProxyUtils.determineTargetClass(Lorg/springframework/beans/factory/config/ConfigurableListableBeanFactory;Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/Class;
at
org.springframework.context.event.EventListenerMethodProcessor.afterSingletonsInstantiated(EventListenerMethodProcessor.java:78)
at
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:792)
at
org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:838)
at
org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:537)
at
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:446)
at
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:328)
at
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:107)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4770)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5196)
at
org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1409)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1399)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262) at
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
at
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Dec 08, 2015 12:04:26 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext
startInternal SEVERE: Error listenerStart Dec 08, 2015 12:04:26 AM
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal SEVERE: Context
[/mycloud-server] startup failed due to previous errors Dec 08, 2015
12:04:26 AM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log INFO:
Closing Spring root WebApplicationContext Dec 08, 2015 12:04:26 AM
org.springframework.web.context.support.AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext
doClose INFO: Closing Root WebApplicationContext: startup date [Tue
Dec 08 00:04:25 CST 2015]; root of context hierarchy Dec 08, 2015
12:04:26 AM
org.springframework.web.context.support.AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext
doClose WARNING: Exception thrown from LifecycleProcessor on context
close java.lang.IllegalStateException: LifecycleProcessor not
initialized - call 'refresh' before invoking lifecycle methods via the
context: Root WebApplicationContext: startup date [Tue Dec 08 00:04:25
CST 2015]; root of context hierarchy at
org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.getLifecycleProcessor(AbstractApplicationContext.java:414)
at
org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.doClose(AbstractApplicationContext.java:972)
at
org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.close(AbstractApplicationContext.java:931)
at
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.closeWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:583)
at
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextDestroyed(ContextLoaderListener.java:116)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStop(StandardContext.java:4813)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.stopInternal(StandardContext.java:5413)
at
org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.stop(LifecycleBase.java:232)
at
org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:160)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1409)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1399)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262) at
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
at
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

Answer 1

Thanks to #M.Deinum's suggestion. I followed this link to use the Spring IO Platform.
I encountered several strange issues during Maven update with my 10G old local repository. I solved it by using a new empty local repository.
And it works. It's quite neat to use maven dependency management.
My pom.xml now looks like this:
<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>xxx</groupId>
<artifactId>mycloud-server</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.spring.platform</groupId>
<artifactId>platform-bom</artifactId>
<version>2.0.0.RELEASE</version>
<type>pom</type>
<scope>import</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-config</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<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.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.7</source>
<target>1.7</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
And the so-called managed dependency are displayed as below:
And some tips:
Based on my experience, many Maven errors are caused by failed download of dependencies or plugins. For each failed download, a *.lastUpdated file will be created. Sometimes this file will block a second download attempt. You can use the following commands to remove them.
cd to local repository.
run: dir *.lastUpdated /s to identify all of them.
run: del *.lastUpdated /s to remove all of them.
run: Maven -> Update in eclipse again.