title: java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: class org.springframework.core.type.classreading.ClassMetadataReadingVisitor
body: <p>I am developing Spring MVC JQGrid example by taking the same example from link: <a href="https://github.com/nurkiewicz/books" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/nurkiewicz/books</a>. When I'm deploying this code I see following error is coming.</p>
  
  <p>The error for reference:</p>
  
  <pre><code>java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: class org.springframework.core.type.classreading.ClassMetadataReadingVisitor has interface org.springframework.asm.ClassVisitor as super class
      at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) ~[na:1.8.0_45]
      at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:760) ~[na:1.8.0_45]
      at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142) ~[na:1.8.0_45]
      at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClassInternal(WebappClassLoader.java:2957) ~[catalina.jar:7.0.59]
      at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1210) ~[catalina.jar:7.0.59]
      at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1690) ~[catalina.jar:7.0.59]
      at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1571) ~[catalina.jar:7.0.59]
      at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) ~[na:1.8.0_45]
      at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:760) ~[na:1.8.0_45]
      at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142) ~[na:1.8.0_45]
      at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClassInternal(WebappClassLoader.java:2957) ~[catalina.jar:7.0.59]
      at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1210) ~[catalina.jar:7.0.59]
      at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1690) ~[catalina.jar:7.0.59]
      at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1571) ~[catalina.jar:7.0.59]
      at org.springframework.core.type.classreading.SimpleMetadataReader.&lt;init&gt;(SimpleMetadataReader.java:63) ~[spring-core-3.2.3.RELEASE.jar:3.2.3.RELEASE]
      at org.springframework.core.type.classreading.SimpleMetadataReaderFactory.getMetadataReader(SimpleMetadataReaderFactory.java:80) ~[spring-core-3.2.3.RELEASE.jar:3.2.3.RELEASE]
      at org.springframework.core.type.classreading.CachingMetadataReaderFactory.getMetadataReader(CachingMetadataReaderFactory.java:102) ~[spring-core-3.2.3.RELEASE.jar:3.2.3.RELEASE]
      at org.springframework.context.annotation.ClassPathScanningCandidateComponentProvider.findCandidateComponents(ClassPathScanningCandidateComponentProvider.java:266) ~[spring-context-3.2.3.RELEASE.jar:3.2.3.RELEASE]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I googled this error, I found <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22771826/beandefinitionstoreexception-failed-to-read-candidate-component-class">BeanDefinitionStoreException Failed to read candidate component class</a>, but solution of this link doesn't worked for me. <strong>Please help to solve this issue.</strong></p>
  
  <p>Pom.xml</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
  &lt;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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd"&gt;
      &lt;modelVersion&gt;4.0.0&lt;/modelVersion&gt;
      &lt;groupId&gt;com.blogspot.nurkiewicz&lt;/groupId&gt;
      &lt;artifactId&gt;books&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;name&gt;jqGrid CRUD&lt;/name&gt;
      &lt;description&gt;jqGrid CRUD with Spring MVC backend&lt;/description&gt;
      &lt;packaging&gt;war&lt;/packaging&gt;
      &lt;version&gt;1.0.0-SNAPSHOT&lt;/version&gt;
      &lt;properties&gt;
          &lt;java.version&gt;1.7&lt;/java.version&gt;
          &lt;org.springframework.version&gt;3.2.3.RELEASE&lt;/org.springframework.version&gt;
          &lt;org.springframework-security.version&gt;3.1.4.RELEASE&lt;/org.springframework-security.version&gt;
          &lt;project.build.sourceEncoding&gt;UTF-8&lt;/project.build.sourceEncoding&gt;
      &lt;/properties&gt;
  
      &lt;dependencies&gt;
          &lt;!-- Web --&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-webmvc&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;${org.springframework.version}&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-jdbc&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;${org.springframework.version}&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-orm&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;${org.springframework.version}&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.data&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-data-jpa&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;1.3.2.RELEASE&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
          &lt;!-- Spring Security --&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.security&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-security-web&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;${org.springframework-security.version}&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.security&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-security-config&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;${org.springframework-security.version}&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
          &lt;!-- &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.hibernate.javax.persistence&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;hibernate-jpa-2.1-api&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;1.0.0.Draft-16&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt; --&gt;
  
          &lt;!-- CGLIB --&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;cglib&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;cglib&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;3.0&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
          &lt;!-- Logging --&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.slf4j&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;slf4j-api&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;1.7.5&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;ch.qos.logback&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;logback-classic&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;1.0.13&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.slf4j&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;jul-to-slf4j&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;1.7.5&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.slf4j&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;log4j-over-slf4j&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;1.7.5&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.slf4j&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;jcl-over-slf4j&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;1.7.5&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;commons-logging&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;commons-logging&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;1.1.3&lt;/version&gt;
              &lt;scope&gt;provided&lt;/scope&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;commons-lang&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;commons-lang&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;2.6&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;commons-io&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;commons-io&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;2.4&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;com.google.guava&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;guava&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;14.0.1&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
          &lt;!-- Jackson JSON Mapper --&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.codehaus.jackson&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;jackson-mapper-asl&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;1.9.11&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
  
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;javax.servlet&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;servlet-api&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;2.5&lt;/version&gt;
              &lt;scope&gt;provided&lt;/scope&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;javax.servlet.jsp&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;jsp-api&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;2.1&lt;/version&gt;
              &lt;scope&gt;provided&lt;/scope&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;javax.servlet&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;jstl&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;1.2&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
          &lt;!-- Test --&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;junit&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;junit&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;4.11&lt;/version&gt;
              &lt;scope&gt;test&lt;/scope&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-test&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;${org.springframework.version}&lt;/version&gt;
              &lt;scope&gt;test&lt;/scope&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.easytesting&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;fest-assert-core&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;2.0M10&lt;/version&gt;
              &lt;scope&gt;test&lt;/scope&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
  
          &lt;!-- Persistence --&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;com.h2database&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;h2&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;1.3.172&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
  
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.eclipse.persistence&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;org.eclipse.persistence.jpa&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;2.5.0&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;com.googlecode.flyway&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;flyway-core&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;2.1.1&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
      &lt;/dependencies&gt;
  
      &lt;build&gt;
          &lt;finalName&gt;books&lt;/finalName&gt;
          &lt;plugins&gt;
              &lt;plugin&gt;
                  &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.tomcat.maven&lt;/groupId&gt;
                  &lt;artifactId&gt;tomcat7-maven-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                  &lt;version&gt;2.0&lt;/version&gt;
              &lt;/plugin&gt;
              &lt;plugin&gt;
                  &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.maven.plugins&lt;/groupId&gt;
                  &lt;artifactId&gt;maven-compiler-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                  &lt;version&gt;2.3.2&lt;/version&gt;
                  &lt;configuration&gt;
                      &lt;source&gt;${java.version}&lt;/source&gt;
                      &lt;target&gt;${java.version}&lt;/target&gt;
                      &lt;showWarnings&gt;true&lt;/showWarnings&gt;
                  &lt;/configuration&gt;
              &lt;/plugin&gt;
  
          &lt;/plugins&gt;
      &lt;/build&gt;
  &lt;/project&gt;
  </code></pre>