I am getting the javassist  exception while deployment the .EAR file . I am using Java 1.8 SDK  , IBM JDK 1.8 . In my pom.xml file , i am using 3.19.0-GA javassit dependency and spring version 4.2.5.RELEASE . The error is getting

error

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: javassist.CannotCompileException: by java.lang.LinkageError: org.springframework.aop.framework.ProxyCreatorSupport

        at org.springframework.aop.framework.JavassistApplicationContext.<clinit>(JavassistApplicationContext.java:36)

        ... 112 more

Caused by: javassist.CannotCompileException: by java.lang.LinkageError: org.springframework.aop.framework.ProxyCreatorSupport

        at javassist.ClassPool.toClass(ClassPool.java:1085)

        at javassist.ClassPool.toClass(ClassPool.java:1028)

        at javassist.ClassPool.toClass(ClassPool.java:986)

        at javassist.CtClass.toClass(CtClass.java:1079)

        at org.springframework.aop.framework.JavassistApplicationContext.<clinit>(JavassistApplicationContext.java:34)

        ... 112 more

Caused by: java.lang.LinkageError: org.springframework.aop.framework.ProxyCreatorSupport

        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassImpl(Native Method)

        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:346)

        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:283)

        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor17.invoke(Unknown Source)

        at

After analyzing the class file of javassit , i can see InvocationTargetException  causing error

javassit jar file class code :

public Class toClass(CtClass ct, ClassLoader loader, ProtectionDomain domain)

/*      */     throws CannotCompileException

/*      */   {

/*      */     try

/*      */     {

/* 1065 */       byte[] b = ct.toBytecode();

/*      */       Object[] args;

/*      */       Method method;

/* 1068 */       Object[] args; if (domain == null) {

/* 1069 */         Method method = defineClass1;

/* 1070 */         args = new Object[] { ct.getName(), b, new Integer(0), new Integer(b.length) };

/*      */       }

/*      */       else

/*      */       {

/* 1074 */         method = defineClass2;

/* 1075 */         args = new Object[] { ct.getName(), b, new Integer(0), new Integer(b.length), domain };

/*      */       }

/*      */      

/*      */

/* 1079 */       return toClass2(method, loader, args);

/*      */     }

/*      */     catch (RuntimeException e) {

/* 1082 */       throw e;

/*      */     }

/*      */     catch (InvocationTargetException e) {

/* 1085 */       throw new CannotCompileException(e.getTargetException());

/*      */     }

/*      */     catch (Exception e) {

/* 1088 */       throw new CannotCompileException(e);

/*      */     }

/*      */   }

code :

public class JavassistApplicationContext extends XmlWebApplicationContext {

    static {

        ClassPool classPool = ClassPool.getDefault();

        try {

            ClassLoader classLoader = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();

            classPool.appendClassPath(new LoaderClassPath(classLoader));

            CtClass cc = classPool.get("org.springframework.aop.framework.ProxyCreatorSupport");

            CtConstructor c = cc.getConstructors()[0];

            c.insertAfter("$0.aopProxyFactory = new org.springframework.aop.framework.JavassistAopProxyFactory();");

            cc.toClass();

        } catch (Exception e) {

            throw new IllegalStateException(e);

        }

    }

}

This code was working fine with JDK 1.6 and javassit 3.12 . Any suggestion ?