Hibernate Validator java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ConfigurationImpl

Question

I have read this and this, but that didn\'t help...

I am using hibernate validator with the following versions/dependencies:

Answer 1

First, check all dependencies using mvn dependency:tree - Find hibernate-validator and add below one into pom.xml inside respective dependency - if not required.

    org.hibernate
    hibernate-validator