I have just migrated Spring 3.0.5 to 3.1 GA. I faced runtime error during initialization:
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error crea
It may help you. Upgrading from Spring 3.0.3.RELEASE results in: java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: USER_DECLARED_METHODS
Earlier I had like this
org.springframework spring-core 3.1.2.RELEASE ...
Then I added
org.springframework spring-core 3.1.2.RELEASE org.springframework spring-core ...