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Activit unable to run with Spring 3.1.0.RELEASE - see error

duderk — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:13:07 GMT

Hi,I tried using Spring 3.1.0.RELEASE with Activiti 5.9 and got the following error, the same Unit test works fine with Spring 3.0.5.RELEASE, seems like that particular spring core class is removed in the latest release of Spring and so that causes issue when running my Activiti unit testorg.springf

Re: Activit unable to run with Spring 3.1.0.RELEASE - see error

duderk — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:16:22 GMT

here's the pertinent Spring JIRA issue

https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SPR-8463

Re: Activit unable to run with Spring 3.1.0.RELEASE - see error

heymjo — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 07:00:42 GMT

We are using Spring 3.1.1.RELEASE and don't see this problem.

Re: Activit unable to run with Spring 3.1.0.RELEASE - see error

duderk — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:06:46 GMT

Thanks Jorg, I think it is a Maven issue as I use maven to manage my Spring dependencies

below is the snippet of pom that fixed the issue for me

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