Spring context initialization failed with java.lang.IllegalArgumentException while deploying to Apache 7.0.54 and java 8

Question

Environment: Applciation server: Apache 7.0.54 Java: \"1.8.0_05\" OS: Mac OS X 10.9.3

Libraries: Spring 3.2 REST application

Following is the error I receive

Answer 1

If you can't go Spring 4 just upgrade to 3.2.16 will solved the problem.

Thanks to Tom Saleeba