java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/springframework/core/env/ConfigurableEnvironment

Question

I am trying to write a simple RESTful service using Spring Boot. However, there is an error message I am not able to solve. I have been researching and it looks like it is a conflict between SpringBoot versions, however I am not sure about how can I get rid of it.

I have this SpringBootApp:

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;

/**
 * REST Service application
 */
@SpringBootApplication
public class Application {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
    }
}

Associated with this pom.xml:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"
    xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>com.websystique.springmvc</groupId>
    <artifactId>Spring4MVCHelloWorldRestServiceDemo</artifactId>
    <packaging>war</packaging>
    <version>1.0.0</version>
    <name>Spring4MVCHelloWorldRestServiceDemo Maven Webapp</name>

    <properties>
        <springframework.version>4.3.0.RELEASE</springframework.version>
        <jackson.library>2.7.5</jackson.library>
        <spring.batch.version>2.1.9.RELEASE</spring.batch.version>
    </properties>

    <dependencies>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
            <version>1.4.0.RELEASE</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
            <version>${springframework.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
            <version>${springframework.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
            <version>${springframework.version}</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            <version>4.11</version> <!-- Or whatever JUnit you're using. -->
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
            <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
            <version>3.1.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
            <version>${jackson.library}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-dataformat-xml</artifactId>
            <version>${jackson.library}</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.batch</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-batch-core</artifactId>
            <version>${spring.batch.version}</version>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
                    <artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
                    <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>


    </dependencies>


    <build>
        <pluginManagement>
            <plugins>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>3.2</version>
                    <configuration>
                        <source>1.7</source>
                        <target>1.7</target>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                    <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>2.4</version>
                    <configuration>
                        <warSourceDirectory>src/main/webapp</warSourceDirectory>
                        <warName>Spring4MVCHelloWorldRestServiceDemo</warName>
                        <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>
            </plugins>
        </pluginManagement>

        <finalName>Spring4MVCHelloWorldRestServiceDemo</finalName>
    </build>
</project>

Looks fine for me, but I am getting this error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/springframework/core/env/ConfigurableEnvironment
    at com.application.Application.main(Application.java:13)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.core.env.ConfigurableEnvironment
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
    ... 1 more

Use the __ mechanism to avoid conflicts and duplicates, take off the from the spring batch dependency — abarisone, Aug 31 '16 at 09:32
1 right click on project>maven>update projecrt(force update snapshot) 2 maven clean & maven install then try — bananas, Aug 31 '16 at 09:36
Had a "sighting" of this was overcome once by clearing the ~/.m2/repository dir... — rogerdpack, May 09 '19 at 16:57

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 31 '16 at 10:00

Recommended Approach

Go to Spring boot Initialzr site and select web stack as a dependency as shown in below .
As Spring Boot uses the concept of Opinionated dependencies and Bill of Materials, It will automatically pull the other dependencies and resolve your classNotFoundException issue. And in your case it misses out the Spring-core-4.2.4.RELEASE.jar dependency.

Execute the Maven Goal as clean install spring-boot:run -e and you can find your maven dependencies in your IDE and below given is a sample POM file.

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"              xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0     http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

   <groupId>com.example</groupId>
  <artifactId>demo</artifactId>
 <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
 <packaging>war</packaging>

     <name>demo</name>
    <description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>

     <parent>
       <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
     <version>1.4.0.RELEASE</version>
     <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
   </parent>

    <properties>
      <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
       <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-       8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
    <java.version>1.8</java.version>
    </properties>

 <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
     </dependency>

     <dependency>
          <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
             <scope>provided</scope>
      </dependency>
    <dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
        <scope>test</scope>
      < /dependency>
    </dependencies>

  <build>
    <finalName>demo</finalName>
       <plugins>
         <plugin>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
         </plugin>
      </plugins>
    </build>

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 31 '16 at 09:33

3

Spring boot is running -

<spring.version>4.3.2.RELEASE</spring.version>

For -

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        <version>1.4.0.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>

While you are importing -

    <springframework.version>4.3.0.RELEASE</springframework.version>

You can confirm on the master pom -

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/blob/v1.4.0.RELEASE/spring-boot-dependencies/pom.xml

Can you update the spring version in your pom? Or deal with managing maven dependencies

answered Aug 31 '16 at 09:33

farrellmr

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Thanks. I added it and rebuild, but it says "Missing artifact org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web:jar:4.3.2.RELEASE" – stack man Aug 31 '16 at 09:53
Did you run clean? Im checking the pom imports - you could remove core from yours, just checking the others – farrellmr Aug 31 '16 at 10:01
You could either remove the web dependencies, or remove the version - then they will inherit from the bom – farrellmr Aug 31 '16 at 10:11

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited May 25 '18 at 09:40

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Delete the springframework folder in repository, then press Alt + F5 and update the project (force update snapshot).

C:\Users\xxxx\.m2\repository\org\springframework

edited May 25 '18 at 09:40

sɐunıɔןɐqɐp

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answered May 25 '18 at 07:41

Lot Si

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 29 '18 at 13:28

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changed the boot-starter-parent version from 1.5.1.RELEASE to 1.4.0.RELEASE.

answered Jun 29 '18 at 13:28

Ramya R.V

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Please expand your answer. Add additional information why updating to that version would fix the problem that the op is having. – Dimitar Spasovski Jun 29 '18 at 13:32

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 13 '18 at 21:09

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<parent>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
    <version>1.4.2.RELEASE</version>
  </parent>

Please Try this one for your parent

answered Jul 13 '18 at 21:09

user7336873

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Damian JK · Answer 6 · 2019-10-11T07:29:08.200

I had same problem with Spring boot 2.1.9.RELEASE

    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>2.1.9.RELEASE</version>
        <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
    </parent>

Added pom dependency eliminated this exception:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
        <version>5.2.0.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>

EDIT - better approach.

Also clean up of maven repository with spring dependencies resolved problem for me, there were not need to add spring-core 5.2.0.RELEASE in pom. Seems that when I had many versions of spring in repo some problem occurs. Also before again resolve dependencies dont forget clean project.

rm -rf ~/.m2/repository/org/springframework/

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Sep 04 '21 at 05:52

0

For me changing all

<version>2.4.10</version>

to

<version>2.4.3</version>

in pom.xml file worked.

answered Sep 04 '21 at 05:52

Pravin Desai

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score -1 · Answer 8 · answered Mar 31 '18 at 11:16

-1

I changed the boot-starter-parent configuration which was runnig version 2.0.0 to 1.4.0 and I was able to run the java application and got rid of this error

<parent>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
    <version>1.4.0.RELEASE</version>  <!-- changed it to version 1.4.0 from 2.0.0-->
    <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>

answered Mar 31 '18 at 11:16

Eihab

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But downgrading to an old version is hardly a sollution to the problem that lasts for long. Can't you find something that works with a later version of spring boot starter? – Alexander Mar 31 '18 at 11:47

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/springframework/core/env/ConfigurableEnvironment

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