Setting up spring app with spring data repositories and mongo db

Question

I am facing an issue when defining mongo repository in application-context.xml

Following is the error i get in xml

Error occured processing XML tried to access method org.springframework.context.annotation.AnnotationConfigUtils.processCommonDefinitionAnnotations (Lorg/springframework/beans/factory/annotation/AnnotatedBeanDefinition;)V from class org.springframework.data.repository.config.RepositoryComponentProvider'. See Error Log for more details servlet-context.xml /master/WebContent/WEB-INF/config line 24 Spring Beans Problem

I am attaching a screenshot of env for reference. I am using eclipse Kepler version and pom properties File is like this

<java-version>1.7</java-version>
<org.springframework-version>4.0.1.RELEASE</org.springframework-version>
<org.jackson-version>2.3.0</org.jackson-version>
<spring-data-mongodb>1.4.0.RELEASE</spring-data-mongodb>

Spring data commons version is 1.7 spring data mongo db version 1.4. I see the error in eclipse project when I open context xml.

Interestingly I have another project that works well.Only difference is that it doesn't have spring MVC and jackson binaries otherwise its similar project.

exception stack trace:

!ENTRY org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.core 1 0 2014-03-01 00:04:11.839 !MESSAGE Error occured processing '/master/WebContent/WEB-INF/config/servlet-context.xml' !STACK 0 java.lang.IllegalAccessError: tried to access method org.springframework.context.annotation.AnnotationConfigUtils.processCommonDefinitionAnnotations(Lorg/springframework/beans/factory/annotation/AnnotatedBeanDefinition;)V from class org.springframework.data.repository.config.RepositoryComponentProvider at org.springframework.data.repository.config.RepositoryComponentProvider.findCandidateComponents(RepositoryComponentProvider.java:121) at org.springframework.data.repository.config.RepositoryConfigurationSourceSupport.getCandidates(RepositoryConfigurationSourceSupport.java:69) at org.springframework.data.repository.config.RepositoryConfigurationExtensionSupport.getRepositoryConfigurations(RepositoryConfigurationExtensionSupport.java:54) at org.springframework.data.repository.config.RepositoryConfigurationDelegate.registerRepositoriesIn(RepositoryConfigurationDelegate.java:88) at org.springframework.data.repository.config.RepositoryBeanDefinitionParser.parse(RepositoryBeanDefinitionParser.java:67) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.NamespaceHandlerSupport.parse(NamespaceHandlerSupport.java:74) at org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.core.internal.model.namespaces.DelegatingNamespaceHandlerResolver$ElementTrackingNamespaceHandler.parse(DelegatingNamespaceHandlerResolver.java:177) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.parseCustomElement(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:1427) at org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.core.internal.model.BeansConfig$ErrorSuppressingBeanDefinitionParserDelegate.parseCustomElement(BeansConfig.java:1400) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.parseCustomElement(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:1417) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.parseBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:187) at org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.core.internal.model.BeansConfig$ToolingFriendlyBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.doRegisterBeanDefinitions(BeansConfig.java:1330) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.registerBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:110) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.registerBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:494) at org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.core.internal.model.BeansConfig$2.registerBeanDefinitions(BeansConfig.java:402) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:391) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:335) at org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.core.internal.model.BeansConfig$2.loadBeanDefinitions(BeansConfig.java:388) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:303) at

servlet context.xml

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xmlns:mongo="http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/mongo"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/mongo http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/mongo/spring-mongo.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">


    <!-- Enables the Spring MVC @Controller programming model -->
    <mvc:annotation-driven />


    <context:component-scan base-package="com.xxxx.yyyyy" />

    <!-- Mongo DB Configuration -->
    <mongo:mongo id="mongo" host="monopolyvm3" port="27017" />
    <mongo:db-factory dbname="test" mongo-ref="mongo" />
    <mongo:db-factory id="mongoDbFactory" dbname="cloud" mongo-ref="mongo" />
    <mongo:repositories base-package="com.xxxx.yyyyy" />

    <bean id="mappingContext" class="org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.mapping.MongoMappingContext" />

    <bean id="defaultMongoTypeMapper"
        class="org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.convert.DefaultMongoTypeMapper">
        <constructor-arg name="typeKey"><null/></constructor-arg>
    </bean>

    <bean id="mappingMongoConverter" class="org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.convert.MappingMongoConverter">
        <constructor-arg name="mongoDbFactory" ref="mongoDbFactory" />
        <constructor-arg name="mappingContext" ref="mappingContext" />
        <property name="typeMapper" ref="defaultMongoTypeMapper" />
    </bean>

    <bean id="mongoTemplate" class="org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.MongoTemplate">
        <constructor-arg ref="mongoDbFactory" />
        <constructor-arg name="mongoConverter" ref="mappingMongoConverter" />
        <property name="writeConcern" value="SAFE" />
    </bean>




</beans>

error is seen at the following line..

Answer 1

In my case it was spring data jpa version which was causing problem. I am not using spring data mongodb but spring data jpa instead. I started this projected today with latest versions (spring-framework 4.0.2.RELEASE, spring-data-jpa 1.5.0.RELEASE). I ensured that all transitive dependencies from maven (from spring side as well as from spring data side) are that of latest version but no lock.

Following this thread, tried to downgrade spring version to 4.0.0.RELEASE but no luck. I even explored the org.springframework.context.annotation.AnnotationConfigUtils class from spring-context-4.0.2.RELEASE.jar (and also in spring-context-4.0.0.RELEASE.jar) from within my workspace and confirmed that indeed processCommonDefinitionAnnotations is a public method thus IllegalAccessError can not be an issue resulting from these jars.

Finally I downgraded my spring-data-jpa from 1.5.0.RELEASE to 1.4.4.RELEASE and voila all problems are solved on maven update. I am using STS 3.4 if it helps anyone.

Since this was the first post I found on googling this error, thought of posting it here so that others who are facing same problems can potentially solve it with this tip. I have opened bug report at https://jira.springsource.org/browse/DATAJPA-490

@Oliver, tried the dependency management suggested but no luck. I have also added dependency:list output to the bug report as requested.