java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org/springframework/beans/MutablePropertyValues.add(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/Object;)

Question

While deploying application on weblogic 11g I get following error. java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org/springframework/beans/MutablePropertyValues.add(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/Object;)Lorg/springframework/beans/MutablePropertyValues;

I have following spring jars in my application

     com.springsource.org.aopalliance-1.0.0.jar
     com.springsource.org.aopalliance-sources-1.0.0.jar
     org.springframework.beans-3.2.1.RELEASE.jar
     org.springframework.context-3.2.1.RELEASE.jar
     org.springframework.core-3.2.1.RELEASE.jar
     org.springframework.expression-3.2.1.RELEASE.jar
     org.springframework.jdbc-3.2.1.RELEASE.jar
     org.springframework.transaction-3.2.1.RELEASE.jar
     org.springframework.web.servlet-3.2.1.RELEASE.jar
     org.springframework.web-3.2.1.RELEASE.jar
     spring-aop-3.2.1.RELEASE.jar

And I have following other jars as well
commons-beanutils.jar, commons-collections.jar, commons-dbcp-1.4.jar, commons-digester.jar, commons-io-1.1.jar, dom4j-1.3.jar, jackson-core-asl-1.4.2.jar, jackson-mapper-asl-1.4.2.jar, jcommon-1.0.16.jar, jfreechart-1.0.13.jar, jstl-1.2.jar, ojdbc6-11.2.0.3.jar, slf4j.api-1.6.1.jar, slf4j-nop-1.6.1.jar, log4j-1.2.17.jar ,

Please help

Answer 1

You obviously have another version of this class in classpath. Do you have spring-beans in system classloader? As Oracle documentation says, WebLogic web deployment descriptor weblogic.xml has a special element prefer-web-inf-classes.

By setting this element to true, you are changing classloader policy such that classes from application are loaded in preference to system classloader classes.