This is a question that has been asked before, but unfortunately no solution seems to work for me. I am facing this exception (with abridged stack trace):
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We were facing the similar problem and it turned out we had 2 incompatible versions of slf4j jars in the classpath. The class path had the following 2 incompatible versions. After removing the lower versions from the classpath, the problem was fixed.
slf4j-api-1.6.1.jar
slf4j-log4j12-1.6.1.jar
slf4j-api-1.5.11.jar
slf4j-log4j12-1.5.11.jar