spring webflow not working with Spring 4 - spring

Question

I have recently upgraded to spring 4 and also spring webflow to 2.4.1
Here is the dependencies of webflow
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.webflow</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webflow</artifactId>
<version>2.4.1.RELEASE</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.webflow</groupId>
<artifactId>org.springframework.webflow</artifactId>
<version>2.0.0.RELEASE</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.webflow</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-binding</artifactId>
<version>2.4.1.RELEASE</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.webflow</groupId>
<artifactId>org.springframework.js</artifactId>
<version>2.0.5.RELEASE</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.webflow</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-js-resources</artifactId>
<version>2.4.1.RELEASE</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.webflow</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-js</artifactId>
<version>2.4.1.RELEASE</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
ApplicationContext file for springwebflow
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:webflow="http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow-config"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow-config
http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow-config/spring-webflow-config.xsd">
<bean id="randomUserGenerator" class="com.userGenerator.randomUserGenerator.RandomUserGenerator" >
</bean>
<bean id="appSign" class="com.dao.service.ApplicationSignManager">
<description>List of Dao in ApplicationLogin Manager</description>
<property name="iSecurityQuestionDao" ref="securityQuestionsDao"/>
<property name="randomUserGeneratorInterface" ref="randomUserGenerator"/>
</bean>
<bean id="webflowEventDelegator" class="com.bhaskar.web.WebFLowEventDelegatorController">
<property name="iApplicationSignInterface" ref="appSign"/>
</bean>
<bean id="iFileReadManager" class="com.dao.service.FileReadManager">
<property name="shoppingBrandMasterDao" ref="shoppingBrandMasterDao"/>
</bean>
<bean id="fileUploadController" class="com.bhaskar.web.FileUploadController">
<property name="iFileReadManager" ref="iFileReadManager"/>
</bean>
<bean id="tilesConfigurer"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesConfigurer">
<property name="definitions" >
<list>
<value>/WEB-INF/flowTiles/tiles.xml</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="tilesViewResolver" class="org.springframework.js.ajax.AjaxUrlBasedViewResolver">
<property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.webflow.mvc.view.FlowAjaxTilesView" />
</bean>
<bean id="viewFactoryCreator"
class="org.springframework.webflow.mvc.builder.MvcViewFactoryCreator">
<property name="viewResolvers" ref="tilesViewResolver" />
</bean>
<bean id="handlerMapping" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping">
<property name="mappings">
<value>/*.org=flowController</value>
</property>
<property name="order" value="1"></property>
</bean>
<bean id="flowController" class="org.springframework.webflow.mvc.servlet.FlowController">
<property name="flowExecutor" ref="flowExecutor"/>
</bean>
<webflow:flow-executor id="flowExecutor" flow-registry="flowRegistry"/>
<webflow:flow-registry id="flowRegistry" flow-builder-services="flowBuilderServices" >
<webflow:flow-location id="register" path="/WEB-INF/flows/register.xml"></webflow:flow-location>
<webflow:flow-location id="fileUpload" path="/WEB-INF/flows/fileUpload.xml"/>
</webflow:flow-registry>
<webflow:flow-builder-services id="flowBuilderServices"
view-factory-creator="viewFactoryCreator" development="true"/>
</beans>
But now it is throwing an exception as
Unexpected exception parsing XML document from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationFlowContext.xml]; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.springframework.core.enums.LabeledEnum
Please help to resolve this issue.

Answer 1

You can modify your pom to have this. Our project uses Spring 4 and Spring Web Flow 2.4.1 without issues. I also have Spring Security in there (you can remove it if you don't plan to use it). You can add other resources as needed. Remove any jars in your WEB-INF/lib folder and run mvn compile.
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-framework-bom</artifactId>
<version>4.1.0.RELEASE</version>
<type>pom</type>
<scope>import</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<!-- Spring -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-jdbc</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-expression</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-core</artifactId>
<version>3.2.4.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-config</artifactId>
<version>3.2.4.RELEASE</version>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-web</artifactId>
<version>3.2.4.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-taglibs</artifactId>
<version>3.2.4.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-dbcp</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-dbcp</artifactId>
<version>1.2.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.webflow</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webflow</artifactId>
<version>2.4.1.RELEASE</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.webflow</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-binding</artifactId>
<version>2.4.1.RELEASE</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
</dependencies>