Parsing applicationContext.xml renders a `java.lang.NoSuchMethodError`. Could this be caused by dependency issues?

Question

I am invoking a test method (Junit) with an annotated application context (@ContextConfiguration(locations={\"classpath:applicationContext.xml\"})). The test fa

Answer 1

I just encountered this with Spring 4.1.1.RELEASE, Spring Security 3.2.5.RELEASE and OAuth2 2.0.3.RELEASE. It was OAuth2 that needed the getEnvironment method.

One of the Spring Security dependencies downloaded Spring Beans 4.0.3.RELEASE which does not have getEnvironment. I fixed by explicitly defining spring-beans 4.1.1.RELEASE as a dependency.