CGLIB is required to process @Configuration classes
Published: June 17, 2011 , Updated: June 17, 2011 , Author: mkyong
Problem
Using Spring3 @Configuration to create an application configuration file like below :
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration; @Configuration public class AppConfig { @Bean //... }
However, when run it, it hits following error message :
org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext prepareRefresh //... Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: CGLIB is required to process @Configuration classes. Either add CGLIB to the classpath or remove the following @Configuration bean definitions: [appConfig] //... at com.mkyong.core.App.main(App.java:12)
Solution
To use @Configuration in Spring 3, you need to include the CGLIB library manually, just declares it in Maven pom.xml file.
<dependency> <groupId>cglib</groupId> <artifactId>cglib</artifactId> <version>2.2.2</version> </dependency>






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