java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.getDependencyComparator()Ljava/util/Comparator;"}}

Question

I'm trying add spring security to my project. I am using Spring 4 and I would like to use spring security 3.2. I have problem with configuration: This is my exception:

Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Unexpected exception parsing XML document from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/spring/root-context.xml]; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.getDependencyComparator()Ljava/util/Comparator;
    Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Unexpected exception parsing XML document from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/spring/root-context.xml]; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.getDependencyComparator()Ljava/util/Comparator;
    Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.getDependencyComparator()Ljava/util/Comparator;"}}

And this is project's dependency tree:

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
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[INFO] Building engineering-project-web Maven Webapp 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
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[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-dependency-plugin:2.8:tree (default-cli) @ engineering-project-web ---
[INFO] com.pawel:engineering-project-web:war:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] +- org.aspectj:aspectjweaver:jar:1.8.0:compile
[INFO] +- com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:jar:2.2.3:compile
[INFO] |  +- com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-annotations:jar:2.2.3:compile
[INFO] |  \- com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core:jar:2.2.3:compile
[INFO] +- org.springframework:spring-context:jar:4.0.0.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] |  +- org.springframework:spring-aop:jar:4.0.0.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] |  \- org.springframework:spring-expression:jar:4.0.0.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] +- org.springframework:spring-core:jar:4.0.0.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] |  \- commons-logging:commons-logging:jar:1.1.1:compile
[INFO] +- org.springframework:spring-webmvc:jar:4.0.0.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] |  \- org.springframework:spring-web:jar:4.0.0.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] +- org.springframework.security:spring-security-web:jar:3.2.0.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] |  \- aopalliance:aopalliance:jar:1.0:compile
[INFO] +- org.springframework.security:spring-security-config:jar:3.2.0.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] +- org.springframework.security:spring-security-core:jar:3.2.0.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] +- org.springframework:spring-orm:jar:4.0.0.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] |  \- org.springframework:spring-jdbc:jar:4.0.0.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] +- org.springframework:spring-tx:jar:4.0.0.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] +- org.springframework:spring-beans:jar:4.0.0.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] +- org.springframework:spring-aspects:jar:4.0.0.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] |  \- org.springframework:spring-context-support:jar:4.0.0.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] +- org.aspectj:aspectjrt:jar:1.7.4:compile
[INFO] +- org.slf4j:slf4j-api:jar:1.7.5:compile
[INFO] +- org.slf4j:jcl-over-slf4j:jar:1.7.5:runtime
[INFO] +- org.slf4j:slf4j-log4j12:jar:1.7.5:runtime
[INFO] +- log4j:log4j:jar:1.2.15:runtime
[INFO] +- javax.inject:javax.inject:jar:1:compile
[INFO] +- javax.servlet:servlet-api:jar:2.5:provided
[INFO] +- javax.servlet.jsp:jsp-api:jar:2.1:provided
[INFO] +- javax.servlet:jstl:jar:1.2:compile
[INFO] \- junit:junit:jar:4.7:test
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 1.654 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2015-01-18T14:38:19+01:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 13M/245M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Answer 1

I got this error while configuring Spring based Web Application in Tomcat7 (using Maven). This problem basically exists because of dependency incompatibility. I was using Spring 4.1.6 along with Spring-Security 3.2.x.

But by changing Spring-Security version to 4.0.0, I was able to fix the issue. Hope this helps....