Class Conflict when starting up Java project: ClassMetadataReadingVisitor has interface org.springframework.asm.ClassVisitor as super class

Question

I am developing a Java web project using the latest Spring framework version (3.2.2-RELEASE), but now I have a problem when the project is started up. The detail error is

Answer 1

Same issue for me. I ran 'mvn dependency:tree' and noticed that an older version of spring-aop was being brought in so I added it to the jersey-spring exclusions, which corrected my problem:

    
        com.sun.jersey.contribs
        jersey-spring
        ${jersey.version}
        
            
                org.springframework
                spring-core
            
            
                org.springframework
                spring-web
            
            
                org.springframework
                spring-beans
            
            
                org.springframework
                spring-context
            
            
                org.springframework
                spring-aop
            
        
        provided