java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/springframework/core/env/ConfigurableEnvironment

7
votes

I am trying to write a simple RESTful service using Spring Boot. However, there is an error message I am not able to solve. I have been researching and it looks like it is a conflict between SpringBoot versions, however I am not sure about how can I get rid of it.

I have this SpringBootApp:

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;

/**
 * REST Service application
 */
@SpringBootApplication
public class Application {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
    }
}

Associated with this pom.xml: 

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"
    xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>com.websystique.springmvc</groupId>
    <artifactId>Spring4MVCHelloWorldRestServiceDemo</artifactId>
    <packaging>war</packaging>
    <version>1.0.0</version>
    <name>Spring4MVCHelloWorldRestServiceDemo Maven Webapp</name>

    <properties>
        <springframework.version>4.3.0.RELEASE</springframework.version>
        <jackson.library>2.7.5</jackson.library>
        <spring.batch.version>2.1.9.RELEASE</spring.batch.version>
    </properties>

    <dependencies>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
            <version>1.4.0.RELEASE</version>
        </dependency>

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

        <dependency>
            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            <version>4.11</version> <!-- Or whatever JUnit you're using. -->
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
            <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
            <version>3.1.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
            <version>${jackson.library}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-dataformat-xml</artifactId>
            <version>${jackson.library}</version>
        </dependency>

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


    </dependencies>


    <build>
        <pluginManagement>
            <plugins>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>3.2</version>
                    <configuration>
                        <source>1.7</source>
                        <target>1.7</target>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                    <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>2.4</version>
                    <configuration>
                        <warSourceDirectory>src/main/webapp</warSourceDirectory>
                        <warName>Spring4MVCHelloWorldRestServiceDemo</warName>
                        <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>
            </plugins>
        </pluginManagement>

        <finalName>Spring4MVCHelloWorldRestServiceDemo</finalName>
    </build>
</project>

Looks fine for me, but I am getting this error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/springframework/core/env/ConfigurableEnvironment
    at com.application.Application.main(Application.java:13)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.core.env.ConfigurableEnvironment
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
    ... 1 more
8
javaeclipsespringmavenspring-boot
Use the <dependencyManagement> mechanism to avoid conflicts and duplicates, take off the <exclusions> from the spring batch dependency – abarisone
1 right click on project>maven>update projecrt(force update snapshot) 2 maven clean & maven install then try – emotionlessbananas
Had a "sighting" of this was overcome once by clearing the ~/.m2/repository dir... – rogerdpack

8 Answers

5
votes

Recommended Approach

  1. Go to Spring boot Initialzr site and select web stack as a dependency as shown in below figure.
  2. As Spring Boot uses the concept of Opinionated dependencies and Bill of Materials, It will automatically pull the other dependencies and resolve your classNotFoundException issue. And in your case it misses out the Spring-core-4.2.4.RELEASE.jar dependency.

  3. Execute the Maven Goal as clean install spring-boot:run -e and you can find your maven dependencies in your IDE and below given is a sample POM file.

      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <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>

   <groupId>com.example</groupId>
  <artifactId>demo</artifactId>
 <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
 <packaging>war</packaging>

     <name>demo</name>
    <description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>

     <parent>
       <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
     <version>1.4.0.RELEASE</version>
     <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
   </parent>

    <properties>
      <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
       <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-       8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
    <java.version>1.8</java.version>
    </properties>

 <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
     </dependency>

     <dependency>
          <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
             <scope>provided</scope>
      </dependency>
    <dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
        <scope>test</scope>
      < /dependency>
    </dependencies>

  <build>
    <finalName>demo</finalName>
       <plugins>
         <plugin>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
         </plugin>
      </plugins>
    </build>

3
votes

Spring boot is running - 

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

For -

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        <version>1.4.0.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>

While you are importing -

    <springframework.version>4.3.0.RELEASE</springframework.version>

You can confirm on the master pom -

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/blob/v1.4.0.RELEASE/spring-boot-dependencies/pom.xml

Can you update the spring version in your pom? Or deal with managing maven dependencies

2
votes

Delete the springframework folder in repository, then press Alt + F5 and update the project (force update snapshot).

C:\Users\xxxx\.m2\repository\org\springframework
0
votes

changed the boot-starter-parent version from 1.5.1.RELEASE to 1.4.0.RELEASE.

0
votes
<parent>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
    <version>1.4.2.RELEASE</version>
  </parent>

Please Try this one for your parent

0
votes

I had same problem with Spring boot 2.1.9.RELEASE

    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>2.1.9.RELEASE</version>
        <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
    </parent>

Added pom dependency eliminated this exception:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
        <version>5.2.0.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>

EDIT - better approach.

Also clean up of maven repository with spring dependencies resolved problem for me, there were not need to add spring-core 5.2.0.RELEASE in pom. Seems that when I had many versions of spring in repo some problem occurs. Also before again resolve dependencies dont forget clean project.

rm -rf ~/.m2/repository/org/springframework/
0
votes

For me changing all

<version>2.4.10</version>

to

<version>2.4.3</version>

in pom.xml file worked.

-1
votes

I changed the boot-starter-parent configuration which was runnig version 2.0.0 to 1.4.0 and I was able to run the java application and got rid of this error

<parent>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
    <version>1.4.0.RELEASE</version>  <!-- changed it to version 1.4.0 from 2.0.0-->
    <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>