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Question

Am very new to spring and JUnit. Am trying to run a simple JUnit test case for spring service class, but it fails and I get this exception.I didnt write any test yet, but t

Answer 1

The problem is that you are mixing different versions of Spring, you are mixing (2.0.8, 3.1.4 and 4.0.2) in your project. That is trouble waiting to happen.

To prevent these kind of things there is now a so called "bill of materials" POM which you can import.

You need to add a dependencyManagement section to import the bom.

    
        
            org.springframework
            spring-framework-bom
            4.0.5.RELEASE
            pom
            import
        
    

Now in your dependencies you can remove the version and replace spring-dao with spring-orm. Added benefit is that all your spring-* dependencies will now be managed to the latest release and you only have a single location for your version number.

    org.springframework
    spring-beans


    org.springframework
    spring-context


    org.springframework
    spring-context-support


    org.springframework
    spring-core


    org.springframework
    spring-jdbc


    org.springframework
    spring-orm

You could apply the same trick for Spring Data as that also has a bom.