BeanDefinitionStoreException Failed to read candidate component class

Question

Can someone tell me how to solve this issue?

I have narrowed down the problem to the pom.xml file. My project works but when I add the following dependency I get an

Answer 1

You most likely have conflicting Spring dependencies on your classpath. It's probably an old spring-asm JAR.

Run mvn dependency:tree -Dincludes=:spring*:: and check for conflicts. The best way to avoid these is to put a dependency on the spring-framework-bom in your project's dependencyManagement section, as follows

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

These versions are supported.