NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlReaderContext.getEnvironment()Lorg/springframework/core/env/Environment; With zkoss

Question

I am facing following error,

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlReaderContext.getEnvironment()Lorg/springframework/core/env/Environment;
    at org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScanBeanDefinitionParser.parse(ComponentScanBeanDefinitionParser.java:81)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.NamespaceHandlerSupport.parse(NamespaceHandlerSupport.java:73)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.parseCustomElement(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:1423)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.parseCustomElement(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:1413)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.parseBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:184)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.doRegisterBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:140)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.registerBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:111)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.registerBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:493)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:390)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:334)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:302)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:174)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:209)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.importBeanDefinitionResource(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:239)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.parseDefaultElement(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:196)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.parseBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:181)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.doRegisterBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:140)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.registerBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:111)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.registerBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:493)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:390)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:334)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:302)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:174)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:209)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:180)
    at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:125)
    at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:94)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:129)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.obtainFreshBeanFactory(AbstractApplicationContext.java:537)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:452)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:663)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:629)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:677)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:548)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initServletBean(FrameworkServlet.java:489)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.HttpServletBean.init(HttpServletBean.java:136)
    at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:160)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.initServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1280)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1193)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:1088)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:5198)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5481)
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1559)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1549)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

I know from google search that its related to dependency issue. So here is my pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <artifactId>TempApp</artifactId>
    <groupId>com.zbc.tempapp</groupId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <packaging>war</packaging>
    <name>TempApp</name>

    <repositories>
        <repository>
            <id>ZK CE</id>
            <name>ZK CE Repository</name>
            <url>http://mavensync.zkoss.org/maven2</url>
        </repository>
    </repositories>
    <properties>
        <jpa.version>1.0.1.Final</jpa.version>
        <hibernate.version>4.3.6.Final</hibernate.version>
        <hibernate.commons.annotation.version>4.0.4.Final</hibernate.commons.annotation.version>
        <hibernate.validator.version>5.1.2.Final</hibernate.validator.version>
        <springVersion>4.1.2.RELEASE</springVersion>
        <log4j2Version>2.0</log4j2Version>
        <springDataJpaVersion>1.4.3.RELEASE</springDataJpaVersion>
        <apacheCommonsLangVersion>3.2.1</apacheCommonsLangVersion>
        <apacheCommonsCollection>4.0</apacheCommonsCollection>
        <apacheCommonsEmail>1.3.2</apacheCommonsEmail>
        <quartzVersion>2.2.1</quartzVersion>
        <zkVersion>7.0.3</zkVersion>
        <zkSpringVersion>3.1.1</zkSpringVersion>
        <junit.version>4.11</junit.version>
        <plugin.maven.war>2.4</plugin.maven.war>
        <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
        <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
        <plugin.maven.compiler>3.0</plugin.maven.compiler>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    </properties>
    <dependencies>
        <!-- asyn logger log4j 2 -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
            <version>${log4j2Version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
            <version>${log4j2Version}</version>
        </dependency>



        <!-- hibernate/jpa related -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.hibernate.javax.persistence</groupId>
            <artifactId>hibernate-jpa-2.0-api</artifactId>
            <version>${jpa.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
            <artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
            <version>${hibernate.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
            <artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
            <version>${hibernate.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.hibernate.common</groupId>
            <artifactId>hibernate-commons-annotations</artifactId>
            <version>${hibernate.commons.annotation.version}</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
            <artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
            <version>${hibernate.validator.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <!-- Spring -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-data-jpa</artifactId>
            <version>${springDataJpaVersion}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
            <version>${springVersion}</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
            <version>${springVersion}</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
            <version>${springVersion}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
            <version>${springVersion}</version>
        </dependency>

        <!-- JUnit -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            <version>${junit.version}</version>
        </dependency>



        <!-- quartz schedular -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.quartz-scheduler</groupId>
            <artifactId>quartz</artifactId>
            <version>${quartzVersion}</version>
        </dependency>

        <!-- Zkoss Dependency -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.zkoss.zk</groupId>
            <artifactId>zkplus</artifactId>
            <version>${zkVersion}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.zkoss.zk</groupId>
            <artifactId>zhtml</artifactId>
            <version>${zkVersion}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.zkoss.zk</groupId>
            <artifactId>zkbind</artifactId>
            <version>${zkVersion}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.zkoss.zk</groupId>
            <artifactId>zul</artifactId>
            <version>${zkVersion}</version>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
                    <artifactId>slf4j-jdk14</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>

<!--        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.zkoss.zk</groupId>
            <artifactId>zkspring-core</artifactId>
            <version>3.1.1</version>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
                    <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency> -->

    <!--    <dependency>
            <groupId>org.zkoss.zk</groupId>
            <artifactId>zkspring-webflow</artifactId>
            <version>3.1.1</version>
        </dependency> -->

        <!-- <dependency>
            <groupId>org.zkoss.zk</groupId>
            <artifactId>zkspring-security</artifactId>
            <version>3.1.1</version>
        </dependency> -->

        <!-- Apache commons -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-email</artifactId>
            <version>${apacheCommonsEmail}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
            <version>${apacheCommonsLangVersion}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-collections4</artifactId>
            <version>${apacheCommonsCollection}</version>
        </dependency>

    </dependencies>
    <build>
        <pluginManagement>
            <plugins>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                    <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>${plugin.maven.war}</version>
                    <configuration>
                        <archive>
                            <manifest>
                                <addDefaultImplementationEntries>true
                                </addDefaultImplementationEntries>
                                <addDefaultSpecificationEntries>true
                                </addDefaultSpecificationEntries>
                            </manifest>
                            <manifestEntries>
                                <Implementation-Build>${BUILD_TAG}</Implementation-Build>
                            </manifestEntries>
                        </archive>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>${plugin.maven.compiler}</version>
                    <configuration>
                        <source>${maven.compiler.source}</source>
                        <target>${maven.compiler.target}</target>
                        <encoding>${project.build.sourceEncoding}</encoding>
                        <showWarnings>true</showWarnings>
                        <showDeprecation>true</showDeprecation>
                        <debug>true</debug>
                        <optimize>true</optimize>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>2.12.4</version>
                    <executions>
                        <execution>
                            <configuration>
                                <!-- make it false to execute test cases -->
                                <skipTests>true</skipTests>
                            </configuration>
                        </execution>
                    </executions>
                </plugin>
            </plugins>
        </pluginManagement>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <configuration>
                            <!-- make it false to execute test cases -->
                            <skipTests>true</skipTests>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <source>${maven.compiler.source}</source>
                    <target>${maven.compiler.target}</target>
                    <encoding>${project.build.sourceEncoding}</encoding>
                    <showWarnings>true</showWarnings>
                    <showDeprecation>true</showDeprecation>
                    <debug>true</debug>
                    <optimize>true</optimize>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
</project>

Thank you.

Answer 1

I had the same problem as you. Two hours finding was going wrong... After found your question and saw that probably it's a dependency problem.

It is, I solved this issue just adding spring beans dependency

  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
    <version>4.1.6.RELEASE</version>
  </dependency>

Answer 2

This was for me a dependency compatibility problem between the spring jars and spring data.

The versions before the error (no errors) :

<spring.version>4.1.0.RELEASE</spring.version>
<springdata.version>1.6.1.RELEASE</springdata.version> 

After updating spring data to 1.10.2.RELEASE the error appends, resolved by upgrading spring version to 4.3.2.RELEASE :

<spring.version>4.3.2.RELEASE</spring.version>
<springdata.version>1.10.2.RELEASE</springdata.version>

To ensure you use the correct spring version you can skip the maven declaration of the spring dependencies and keep only the spring data dependency. Or you can check in the maven repository which spring version is used by your spring data version and update consequentely.

Answer 3

This error is pretty clear, The class

org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlReaderContext

does not contain the method getEnvironment (java method notation)

.getEnvironment()Lorg/springframework/core/env/Environment

If you look at the Spring bean library that is included in you application, and run a javap -l on the class, you will probably notice that this method really does not exist...

**javap.exe c:\XmlReaderContext.class** -l
Compiled from "XmlReaderContext.java"
public class org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlReaderContext extends org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.ReaderContext {
  public org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlReaderContext(org.springframework.core.io.Resource, org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.ProblemReporter, org.springframework.beans.factory.par
aderEventListener, org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.SourceExtractor, org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader, org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.NamespaceHandlerRes

  public final org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader getReader();
  public final org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionRegistry getRegistry();
  public final org.springframework.core.io.ResourceLoader getResourceLoader();
  public final java.lang.ClassLoader getBeanClassLoader();
  public final org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.NamespaceHandlerResolver getNamespaceHandlerResolver();
  public java.lang.String generateBeanName(org.springframework.beans.factory.config.BeanDefinition);
  public java.lang.String registerWithGeneratedName(org.springframework.beans.factory.config.BeanDefinition);
  public org.w3c.dom.Document readDocumentFromString(java.lang.String);
}

Just upgrade to a later version that contains the method for this Spring bean dependency > 4.3.2

Regards