'Spring annotation configuration java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/objectweb/asm/util/TraceClassVisitor

i am trying to run a very simple Spring application with java configuration. i am getting the following exception and i dont understand why. as far as i can tell i have all the required dependencies

public static void main(String[] args) 
{
     System.out.println( "Hello World from main!" );
     ApplicationContext ctx = new AnnotationConfigApplicationContext(AppConfig.class);
     HelloWorld helloWorld = ctx.getBean(HelloWorld.class);
     System.out.println( helloWorld.getMessage() );
}

The exception occures at - AnnotationConfigApplicationContext function call

worth mentioning: I have the following dependency in my POM.XML file.

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

And the exception:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot load configuration class: spring.play.springStart.AppConfig
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.enhanceConfigurationClasses(ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.java:313)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.postProcessBeanFactory(ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.java:197)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.invokeBeanFactoryPostProcessors(AbstractApplicationContext.java:681)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.invokeBeanFactoryPostProcessors(AbstractApplicationContext.java:620)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:446)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext.<init>(AnnotationConfigApplicationContext.java:73)
at spring.play.springStart.App.main(App.java:14)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/objectweb/asm/util/TraceClassVisitor
at net.sf.cglib.core.DebuggingClassWriter.toByteArray(DebuggingClassWriter.java:73)
at net.sf.cglib.core.DefaultGeneratorStrategy.generate(DefaultGeneratorStrategy.java:26)
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.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassEnhancer.newEnhancer(ConfigurationClassEnhancer.java:136)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassEnhancer.enhance(ConfigurationClassEnhancer.java:109)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.enhanceConfigurationClasses(ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.java:303)
... 6 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.objectweb.asm.util.TraceClassVisitor
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
... 17 more

Solution 1:^[1]

I actually don't really know what solved the problem, but I did go to some tutorial website that does the same thing and just copied their pom file dependencies. I still don't understand what was missing.

In any case Balint Bako might be right with his answer but i am not sure, i got it solved by the time I got back to StackOverflow.

Here is the pom file

  <!-- Spring 3 dependencies -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
        <version>${spring.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
        <version>${spring.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <!-- JavaConfig need this library -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>cglib</groupId>
        <artifactId>cglib</artifactId>
        <version>2.2.2</version>
    </dependency>

Good luck

Solution 2:^[2]

As per exception it seems that ASM related jar is missing. You can add asm-all

<dependency>
   <groupId>asm</groupId>
   <artifactId>asm-all</artifactId>
   <version>2.1</version>
</dependency>

Solution 3:^[3]

It worked with me with following dependencies. Thanks Rubens Mariuzzo. You cracked with cglib version problem. It never worked with 3.0 but worked with 2.2.2

<dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
            <version>3.0.0.RELEASE</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-expression</artifactId>
            <version>3.0.0.RELEASE</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
            <version>3.0.0.RELEASE</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
            <version>3.0.0.RELEASE</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>cglib</groupId>
            <artifactId>cglib</artifactId>
            <version>2.2.2</version>
        </dependency>

    </dependencies>

Solution 4:^[4]

You need spring-core too.

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

Solution 5:^[5]

I had same issue when using Spock unit test framework, and using Spy test. I overcome this issue by add this into my Maven dependencies.

 <dependency>
    <groupId>cglib</groupId>
    <artifactId>cglib</artifactId>
    <version>3.3.0</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>cglib</groupId>
    <artifactId>cglib-nodep</artifactId>
    <version>3.3.0</version>
</dependency>

Sources

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Solution	Source
Solution 1	Gleeb
Solution 2	Chetan
Solution 3	Hitesh R
Solution 4	Balint Bako
Solution 5	Cheng

'Spring annotation configuration java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/objectweb/asm/util/TraceClassVisitor

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