Can't use spring-modules-validation with spring 3

Question

i have following pom file:

Answer 1

Apparently you are experiencing the JAR hell issue. Change your dependency in pom.xml to:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springmodules</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-modules-validation</artifactId>
    <version>0.8</version>
    <exclusions>
        <exclusion>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring</artifactId>
        </exclusion>
        <exclusion>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-mock</artifactId>
        </exclusion>
    </exclusions>
</dependency>

If it does not help, try running:

$ mvn dependency:tree

This will help you to find duplicated or overlapping JARs - then you can exclude them using the technique above.