Apr 23, 2010

Resolve java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/aopalliance/intercept/MethodInterceptor

Spring 3.0 is emphatically remarkable! When we moved to Spring 3.0, everything worked fine and the team was of course happy! While doing this, we were also trying to move transactions from the old-school way (using hibernate.cfg.xml) to autowiring session factory and making it annotation driven! The latter move forced us to introduce the following code in out applicationContext.xml
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" />


When we thought everything would work, we were surprised to see that on deployment, tomcat reported: 
<br />java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/aopalliance/intercept/MethodInterceptor<br />

While this Resolve java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/aopalliance/intercept/MethodInterceptor kept us in surprise, I had to google around a bit! On searching a bit across the Internet, I came across the following solution

Solution:

The previous versions of Spring (<3.0)were shipping AOPAlliance.jar which was required to run the above annotation. In spring 3.0 however, does not come bundles with this jar. As such, if you use Spring 3.0, it is important that you download this jar from this link

Yet another utile pointer that I came across is the fact that there is a JIRA issue to include the AOPAlliance.jar in future releases of Spring! Once I added this jar to the classpath of my application, the Resolve java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/aopalliance/intercept/MethodInterceptor error disappeared!

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  1. AnonymousMay 8, 2010 at 3:31 AM

    Thanks,

    Came across the same problem. For others having the same problem please note that the jar, com.springsource.org.aopalliance-1.0.0.jar, is now included in spring-framework-3.0.2.RELEASE-dependencies.zip.

    Cheers

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  2. Yet another Blogger!May 10, 2010 at 10:06 AM

    @Anonymous

    Thanks for that pointer! Nice of you to have made us all know about it here!

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  3. AnonymousJune 24, 2010 at 4:37 PM

    any idea if it is present spring-framework-3.0.3? I got same exception when we moved to 3.0.3

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  4. Yet another Blogger!June 30, 2010 at 10:15 PM

    @Anonymous

    Can you please check if the com.springsource.org.aopalliance-1.0.0.jar is present in your classpath and further let us know in this blog here?

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  5. AnonymousJuly 5, 2010 at 11:10 AM

    Hello, I'm into the same problem. I use Spring 3.0.3 and I dont find aopalliance.jar bundled with it. Should I get it from Spring 3.0.2 dependencies jar?

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  6. Yet another Blogger!July 6, 2010 at 11:36 PM

    @Anonymous

    You can download this jar file from the link below: Let me know if you need more help in this regard!
    http://www.springsource.com/repository/app/bundle/version/detail?name=com.springsource.org.aopalliance&version=1.0.0

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  7. AnonymousAugust 13, 2010 at 2:30 PM

    thank you verry much man

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  8. Yet another Blogger!August 14, 2010 at 9:32 PM

    That is very nice to hear that this helped you!

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  9. Tulio DomingosAugust 23, 2010 at 5:43 AM

    Cheers for that, I ran into the same problem..no idea why aopalliance was removed from Spring 3 in the first place!

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  10. AnonymousOctober 15, 2010 at 10:37 PM

    I could build but not deployed. Glassfish has kept throwing the same exception. If you don't mind, where exactly did you make the modification(s), please?

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  11. AnonymousOctober 18, 2010 at 10:23 PM

    Muchas gracias viejo

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  12. Yet another Blogger!November 8, 2010 at 2:38 PM

    Thanks for that feedback!

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  13. AnonymousNovember 15, 2010 at 2:56 AM

    thank for your post, it help me to solve above problem. :)

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  14. PaniniLuncherDecember 2, 2010 at 2:28 PM

    THANK YOU! You saved me ... I had very similar problem when deployng our Spring 3.0.5-based app. to WebLogic 10 server. I included aopalliance.jar, and it solved the exception.

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  15. SureshDecember 15, 2010 at 1:31 PM

    Thanks for the info. Landed directly here from google :)

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  16. Yet another Blogger!January 14, 2011 at 1:45 PM

    @tienlong, @PaniniLuncher,@Suresh
    Awesome. Thanks for your feedback

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  17. Yusuf KARTALFebruary 4, 2011 at 9:37 AM

    Thanks, it works. :)

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  18. CDubFebruary 10, 2011 at 12:07 AM

    Dead on !! Thanks for your help !!

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  19. AnonymousFebruary 12, 2011 at 8:51 AM

    Hey thank you very much for sharing the solution.

    I had to use Spring 3.0.5, which as of today is the latest release, and I do get this error, so I suppose the jar isn't included.

    Thanks for the timesaver!


    Tanya

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  20. Petr DvorakMarch 8, 2011 at 4:34 PM

    Oh yeah, that was it... Thanks a bunch! :)

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  21. UnknownApril 20, 2011 at 5:25 AM

    Thnx a lot :-) did not need to google a lot for it thnx to ur post :))

    warm regards
    Vinod M

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  22. AnonymousMay 1, 2011 at 7:18 PM

    You may need cgLib2 to make it work:
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/cglib/files/

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  23. AnonymousMay 10, 2011 at 9:37 AM

    Yes thank you think that did it for me as well, on GlassfishESBv2.2

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  24. AnonymousJune 10, 2011 at 7:41 AM

    Awesome article!

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  25. AnonymousJune 28, 2011 at 8:49 PM

    Wow best post. Thanks, it works for me!

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  26. AnonymousJuly 8, 2011 at 6:52 AM

    Thanks :)

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  27. AnonymousJuly 20, 2011 at 11:03 AM

    Thaks!

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  28. AnonymousOctober 17, 2011 at 3:11 AM

    thanks a lot, you helped me solve the problem with spring 3.0.6!

    Gonzalo

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  29. AnonymousJanuary 20, 2012 at 3:23 PM

    Thank you very much for this post. This helped me a lot since I'm new to spring.

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  30. AnonymousFebruary 21, 2012 at 4:02 PM

    I got the same error. Thanks for your post!

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  31. UnknownMarch 1, 2012 at 11:43 AM

    Thank you for posting the solution. I had the same issues in Spring 3.1.1! How come Spring's documentation doesn't refer to this !!!

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  32. AnonymousMarch 19, 2012 at 8:17 PM

    Awesome! Thanks.

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  33. arwa samtiMarch 27, 2012 at 9:55 AM

    hello, thank you for this post, but, after adding this jar, this error is persisting :( in my spring file,any help??

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  34. arwa samtiMarch 27, 2012 at 10:29 AM

    Hi thank you for the post, but after adding the jar, the error persists in my spring file, and I can not use the annotations :( , please help !

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  35. AnonymousMarch 27, 2012 at 10:33 AM

    Thanks, i included the jar but the error persists :'(

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  36. arwa samtiMarch 28, 2012 at 6:51 AM

    THanks but sadly it didn't work for me :(

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  37. WimMarch 29, 2012 at 4:48 AM

    Awsome thank you very much for this information!!

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  38. AnonymousApril 19, 2012 at 6:13 PM

    Thanks for you help, this info saved my graduation project :)

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  39. AnonymousAugust 27, 2012 at 6:21 AM

    thank you ...yaar saved a day

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