AbstractMethodError on deploying Spring 4.0 in Tomcat 6

Question

I am getting below exception on deploying Spring 4.0.1 app in Tomcat 6.0.37:

SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of clas         


        

Answer 1

Check to see if there are multiple references to validator in your pom file

    org.hibernate
    hibernate-validator
    ${hibernate-val.version}