Incompatible neethi.jar with WAS 7

Question

I am deploying one application Apache CXF-2.7.5 with neethi-3.0.2 in websphere 7. I am getting below error. My Application is spring driven. When I degraded Apache CXF to

Answer 1

Yeah, it's possible that WAS is having an older version of neethi.

You should check the lib folder of websphere to see if there's old version of neethi jar there. You may also need to configure your container to enable self-first classloading way if there's neethi version conflict.

Another option is to deploy the required neethi.jar in endorsed directory and then start the VM with appropriate parameters.