Error : java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.objectweb.asm.ClassWriter.<init>(I)V

Question

I am developing a small Spring application. I have to store the details of the student information in the database. I have developed one SimpleFormController. I have used NetBeans + Hibernate mapping + Spring. When I deploy the project, the following errors occurs.

My spring-config-db-applicationContext.xml is shown below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN" "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd"> <beans> <!-- Hibernate session factory -->   <bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">     <constructor-arg index="0">         <value>${driverClassName}</value>     </constructor-arg>     <constructor-arg index="1">         <value>${url}</value>     </constructor-arg>     <constructor-arg index="2">         <value>${username}</value>     </constructor-arg>     <constructor-arg index="3">         <value>${password}</value>     </constructor-arg>   </bean>     <bean id="sessionFactory"  class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean">     <property name="dataSource">         <ref bean="dataSource"/>     </property>     <!-- <property name="configLocation">         <value>WEB-INF/classes/hibernate.cfg.xml</value>     </property> -->     <property  name="mappingResources" >         <list>             <value>hibernate.cfg.xml</value>         </list>     </property>    <!--  <property  name="configurationClass">         <value>org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration</value>     </property> -->      <property name="hibernateProperties">         <props>             <prop key="hibernate.dialect">${dialect}</prop>             <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>   <!--<prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">create</prop>-->         </props>     </property>   </bean>   <bean id="hibernateTemplate" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTemplate">     <property name="sessionFactory">         <ref bean="sessionFactory"/>     </property>   </bean>   <bean id="transactionManager"  class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager">     <property name="sessionFactory">         <ref bean="sessionFactory"/>     </property>   </bean> </beans> 

Following error is occurs:

ERROR (org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader:213) - Context initialization failed org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'sessionFactory' defined in URL [jndi:/localhost/Student/WEB-INF/classes/config/spring-db-applicationContext.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.objectweb.asm.ClassWriter.<init>(I)V         at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1395)         at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:512)         at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:450)         at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:289)         at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222)         at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:286)         at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:188)         at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:526)         at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:730)         at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:387)         at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:270)         at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:197)         at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:47)         at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3843)         at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4342)         at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791)         at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771)         at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:525)         at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:627)         at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:511)         at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.check(HostConfig.java:1231)         at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)         at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)         at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)         at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)         at org.apache.tomcat.util.modeler.BaseModelMBean.invoke(BaseModelMBean.java:297)         at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.invoke(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:836)         at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.invoke(JmxMBeanServer.java:761)         at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.check(ManagerServlet.java:1471)         at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.deploy(ManagerServlet.java:824)         at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.doGet(ManagerServlet.java:350)         at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:617)         at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)         at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)         at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)         at org.netbeans.modules.web.monitor.server.MonitorFilter.doFilter(MonitorFilter.java:196)         at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)         at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)         at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)         at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)         at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:525)         at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128)         at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)         at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)         at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:286)         at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:845)         at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583)         at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447)         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.objectweb.asm.ClassWriter.<init>(I)V         at net.sf.cglib.core.DebuggingClassWriter.<init>(DebuggingClassWriter.java:47)         at net.sf.cglib.core.DefaultGeneratorStrategy.getClassWriter(DefaultGeneratorStrategy.java:30)         at net.sf.cglib.core.DefaultGeneratorStrategy.generate(DefaultGeneratorStrategy.java:24)         at net.sf.cglib.core.AbstractClassGenerator.create(AbstractClassGenerator.java:216)         at net.sf.cglib.core.KeyFactory$Generator.create(KeyFactory.java:144)         at net.sf.cglib.core.KeyFactory.create(KeyFactory.java:116)         at net.sf.cglib.core.KeyFactory.create(KeyFactory.java:108)         at net.sf.cglib.core.KeyFactory.create(KeyFactory.java:104)         at net.sf.cglib.proxy.Enhancer.<clinit>(Enhancer.java:69)         at org.hibernate.proxy.pojo.cglib.CGLIBLazyInitializer.getProxyFactory(CGLIBLazyInitializer.java:117)         at org.hibernate.proxy.pojo.cglib.CGLIBProxyFactory.postInstantiate(CGLIBProxyFactory.java:43)         at org.hibernate.tuple.entity.PojoEntityTuplizer.buildProxyFactory(PojoEntityTuplizer.java:162)         at org.hibernate.tuple.entity.AbstractEntityTuplizer.<init>(AbstractEntityTuplizer.java:135)         at org.hibernate.tuple.entity.PojoEntityTuplizer.<init>(PojoEntityTuplizer.java:55)         at org.hibernate.tuple.entity.EntityEntityModeToTuplizerMapping.<init>(EntityEntityModeToTuplizerMapping.java:56)         at org.hibernate.tuple.entity.EntityMetamodel.<init>(EntityMetamodel.java:302)         at org.hibernate.persister.entity.AbstractEntityPersister.<init>(AbstractEntityPersister.java:434)         at org.hibernate.persister.entity.SingleTableEntityPersister.<init>(SingleTableEntityPersister.java:108)         at org.hibernate.persister.PersisterFactory.createClassPersister(PersisterFactory.java:61)         at org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl.<init>(SessionFactoryImpl.java:238)         at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1304)         at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean.newSessionFactory(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:813)         at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean.buildSessionFactory(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:731)         at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.AbstractSessionFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(AbstractSessionFactoryBean.java:211)         at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1454)         at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1392)         ... 48 more Mar 12, 2010 5:32:28 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start SEVERE: Error listenerStart 

Answer 1

You have an incompatibility between the version of ASM required by Hibernate (asm-1.5.3.jar) and the one required by Spring. But, actually, I wonder why you have asm-2.2.3.jar on your classpath (ASM is bundled in spring.jar and spring-core.jar to avoid such problems AFAIK). See HHH-2222.