I am facing following error,
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlReaderContext.getEnvironment()Lorg/springframework/core/e
I had the same problem as you. Two hours finding was going wrong... After found your question and saw that probably it's a dependency problem.
It is, I solved this issue just adding spring beans dependency
org.springframework spring-beans 4.1.6.RELEASE