title: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/springframework/beans/factory/config/EmbeddedValueResolver
body: <p>I've recently managed to upgrade a jhipster generated app (Spring Boot + Angular)</p>
  
  <p>Issue comes after cleaning code and adapting a few annotations, now I get success when doing a maven <code>clean - install skipping tests</code> but when I try to start the app I get the error mentioned in the title</p>
  
  <p>I've checked pom for duplicated dependencies and had a clean out of the properties file, to no result</p>
  
  <p>This is the full error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>2017-11-30 10:12:57.821  INFO 4320 --- [  restartedMain] o.w.d.DrugQualityDataManagerApp          : Starting DrugQualityDataManagerApp on steven-OptiPlex-7040 with PID 4320 (/home/steven/Desktop/Upgraded_MQ/target/classes started by steven in /home/steven/Desktop/Upgraded_MQ)
  2017-11-30 10:12:57.821  INFO 4320 --- [  restartedMain] o.w.d.DrugQualityDataManagerApp          : The following profiles are active: swagger,dev
  2017-11-30 10:12:57.874 ERROR 4320 --- [  restartedMain] o.s.boot.SpringApplication               : Application startup failed
  
  java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/springframework/beans/factory/config/EmbeddedValueResolver
      at org.springframework.context.support.ApplicationContextAwareProcessor.&lt;init&gt;(ApplicationContextAwareProcessor.java:72)
      at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.prepareBeanFactory(AbstractApplicationContext.java:634)
      at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:518)
      at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.refresh(EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.java:122)
      at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refresh(SpringApplication.java:693)
      at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refreshContext(SpringApplication.java:360)
      at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:303)
      at org.wwarn.drugquality.DrugQualityDataManagerApp.main(DrugQualityDataManagerApp.java:66)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
      at org.springframework.boot.devtools.restart.RestartLauncher.run(RestartLauncher.java:49)
  Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.beans.factory.config.EmbeddedValueResolver
      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)
      ... 13 common frames omitted
  
  2017-11-30 10:12:58.127  WARN 4320 --- [  restartedMain] ationConfigEmbeddedWebApplicationContext : Exception thrown from LifecycleProcessor on context close
  
  java.lang.IllegalStateException: LifecycleProcessor not initialized - call 'refresh' before invoking lifecycle methods via the context: org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.AnnotationConfigEmbeddedWebApplicationContext@350e9339: startup date [Thu Nov 30 10:12:57 GMT 2017]; root of context hierarchy
      at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.getLifecycleProcessor(AbstractApplicationContext.java:427)
      at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.doClose(AbstractApplicationContext.java:999)
      at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.close(AbstractApplicationContext.java:958)
      at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.handleRunFailure(SpringApplication.java:750)
      at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:314)
      at org.wwarn.drugquality.DrugQualityDataManagerApp.main(DrugQualityDataManagerApp.java:66)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
      at org.springframework.boot.devtools.restart.RestartLauncher.run(RestartLauncher.java:49)
  
  Disconnected from the target VM, address: '127.0.0.1:43599', transport: 'socket'
  
  Process finished with exit code 1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My <a href="https://jsfiddle.net/xL431brs/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">pom.xml</a> (I had to embed it in a jsFiddle as it's too long for the body of an SO post)</p>
  
  <p>Properties file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>spring:
      profiles:
          active: dev
          include: swagger
      devtools:
          restart:
              enabled: true
          livereload:
              enabled: false # we use gulp + BrowserSync for livereload
      jackson:
          serialization.indent_output: true
      datasource:
          url: jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/myDB?useUnicode=true&amp;characterEncoding=utf8
          username: myDB
          password: myDB
      h2:
          console:
              enabled: false
      jpa:
          database-platform: org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect
          database: MYSQL
          show_sql: false
          generate-ddl: true
          hibernate:
              ddl-auto: update
              naming:
                  physical-strategy: org.wwarn.drugquality.config.HibernateAuditTablesNamingStrategy
          properties:
              hibernate.id.new_generator_mappings: true
              hibernate.cache.use_second_level_cache: true
              hibernate.cache.use_query_cache: false
              hibernate.generate_statistics: true
              hibernate.cache.region.factory_class: org.hibernate.cache.jcache.JCacheRegionFactory
      data:
          elasticsearch:
              cluster-name:
              cluster-nodes:
              properties:
                  path:
                      logs: target/elasticsearch/log
                      data: target/elasticsearch/data
      mail:
          host: localhost
          port: 25
          username:
          password:
      messages:
          cache-seconds: 1
      thymeleaf:
          cache: false
  
  liquibase:
      contexts: dev
  
  server:
      port: 8080
  
  
  jhipster:
      http:
          version: V_1_1 # To use HTTP/2 you will need SSL support (see above the "server.ssl" configuration)
      cache: # Cache configuration
          ehcache: # Ehcache configuration
              time-to-live-seconds: 3600 # By default objects stay 1 hour in the cache
              max-entries: 100 # Number of objects in each cache entry
      # CORS is only enabled by default with the "dev" profile, so BrowserSync can access the API
      cors:
          allowed-origins: "*"
          allowed-methods: "*"
          allowed-headers: "*"
          allow-credentials: true
          max-age: 1800
      security:
          remember-me:
              # security key (this key should be unique for your application, and kept secret)
              key: daKey
      mail: # specific JHipster mail property, for standard properties see MailProperties
          from: DrugQualityDataManager@localhost
          base-url: http://127.0.0.1:8080
      metrics: # DropWizard Metrics configuration, used by MetricsConfiguration
          jmx.enabled: true
          graphite: # Use the "graphite" Maven profile to have the Graphite dependencies
              enabled: false
              host: localhost
              port: 2003
              prefix: DrugQualityDataManager
          prometheus: # Use the "prometheus" Maven profile to have the Prometheus dependencies
              enabled: false
              endpoint: /prometheusMetrics
          logs: # Reports Dropwizard metrics in the logs
              enabled: false
              report-frequency: 60 # in seconds
      logging:
          logstash: # Forward logs to logstash over a socket, used by LoggingConfiguration
              enabled: false
              host: localhost
              port: 5000
              queue-size: 512
  
  
  # ===================================================================
  # Application specific properties
  # Add your own application properties here, see the ApplicationProperties class
  # to have type-safe configuration, like in the JHipsterProperties above
  #
  # More documentation is available at:
  # http://www.jhipster.tech/common-application-properties/
  # ===================================================================
  
  application:
  </code></pre>