Spring annotation configuration java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/objectweb/asm/util/TraceClassVisitor - eclipse

Question

i am trying to run a very simple Spring application with java configuration. i am getting the following exception and i dont understand why. as far as i can tell i have all the required dependencies
public static void main(String[] args)
{
System.out.println( "Hello World from main!" );
ApplicationContext ctx = new AnnotationConfigApplicationContext(AppConfig.class);
HelloWorld helloWorld = ctx.getBean(HelloWorld.class);
System.out.println( helloWorld.getMessage() );
}
The exception occures at - AnnotationConfigApplicationContext function call
worth mentioning:
I have the following dependency in my POM.XML file.
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-asm</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
And the exception:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot load configuration class: spring.play.springStart.AppConfig
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.enhanceConfigurationClasses(ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.java:313)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.postProcessBeanFactory(ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.java:197)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.invokeBeanFactoryPostProcessors(AbstractApplicationContext.java:681)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.invokeBeanFactoryPostProcessors(AbstractApplicationContext.java:620)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:446)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext.<init>(AnnotationConfigApplicationContext.java:73)
at spring.play.springStart.App.main(App.java:14)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/objectweb/asm/util/TraceClassVisitor
at net.sf.cglib.core.DebuggingClassWriter.toByteArray(DebuggingClassWriter.java:73)
at net.sf.cglib.core.DefaultGeneratorStrategy.generate(DefaultGeneratorStrategy.java:26)
at net.sf.cglib.core.AbstractClassGenerator.create(AbstractClassGenerator.java:216)
at net.sf.cglib.core.KeyFactory$Generator.create(KeyFactory.java:144)
at net.sf.cglib.core.KeyFactory.create(KeyFactory.java:116)
at net.sf.cglib.core.KeyFactory.create(KeyFactory.java:108)
at net.sf.cglib.core.KeyFactory.create(KeyFactory.java:104)
at net.sf.cglib.proxy.Enhancer.<clinit>(Enhancer.java:69)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassEnhancer.newEnhancer(ConfigurationClassEnhancer.java:136)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassEnhancer.enhance(ConfigurationClassEnhancer.java:109)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.enhanceConfigurationClasses(ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.java:303)
... 6 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.objectweb.asm.util.TraceClassVisitor
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
... 17 more

Answer 1

I actually don't really know what solved the problem, but I did go to some tutorial website that does the same thing and just copied their pom file dependencies.
I still don't understand what was missing.
In any case Balint Bako might be right with his answer but i am not sure, i got it solved by the time I got back to StackOverflow.
Here is the pom file
<!-- Spring 3 dependencies -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- JavaConfig need this library -->
<dependency>
<groupId>cglib</groupId>
<artifactId>cglib</artifactId>
<version>2.2.2</version>
</dependency>
Good luck

Answer 2

As per exception it seems that ASM related jar is missing. You can add asm-all
<dependency>
<groupId>asm</groupId>
<artifactId>asm-all</artifactId>
<version>2.1</version>
</dependency>

Answer 3

It worked with me with following dependencies. Thanks Rubens Mariuzzo. You cracked with cglib version problem. It never worked with 3.0 but worked with 2.2.2
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-expression</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>cglib</groupId>
<artifactId>cglib</artifactId>
<version>2.2.2</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>

Answer 4

You need spring-core too.
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>

Answer 5

I had same issue when using Spock unit test framework, and using Spy test.
I overcome this issue by add this into my Maven dependencies.
<dependency>
<groupId>cglib</groupId>
<artifactId>cglib</artifactId>
<version>3.3.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>cglib</groupId>
<artifactId>cglib-nodep</artifactId>
<version>3.3.0</version>
</dependency>