upgraded to 1808 from 6.5 and getting Error creating Spring application context on server startup

[former_member624139]

INFO [localhost-startStop-1] [HybrisContextFactory] Initializing <<global>> Spring ApplicationContext took: (875.9 ms) de.hybris.platform.core.UninstantiableCoreApplicationContextException: Error creating Spring application context. at de.hybris.platform.core.AbstractTenant.doStartupSafe(AbstractTenant.java:756) at de.hybris.platform.core.AbstractTenant.doStartUp(AbstractTenant.java:685) at de.hybris.platform.core.Registry.assureTenantStarted(Registry.java:658) at de.hybris.platform.core.Registry.activateTenant(Registry.java:719) at de.hybris.platform.core.Registry.setCurrentTenant(Registry.java:566) at de.hybris.platform.core.Registry.activateMasterTenant(Registry.java:626) at de.hybris.platform.core.Registry.startup(Registry.java:444) at de.hybris.platform.core.ClassLoaderUtils.executeWithWebClassLoaderParentIfNeeded(ClassLoaderUtils.java:42) at de.hybris.platform.spring.HybrisContextLoaderListener.startRegistry(HybrisContextLoaderListener.java:325) at de.hybris.platform.spring.HybrisContextLoaderListener.doInitWebApplicationContext(HybrisContextLoaderListener.java:211) at de.hybris.platform.spring.HybrisContextLoaderListener.initWebApplicationContext(HybrisContextLoaderListener.java:199) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:107) at de.hybris.platform.spring.HybrisContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(HybrisContextLoaderListener.java:95) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4745) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5207) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1419) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1409) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Unexpected exception parsing XML document from class path resource [global-core-spring.xml]; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/w3c/dom/ElementTraversal

Please suggest

[former_member620692]

Hello pallav23 - did the solution work for you?

[former_member620692 · Accepted solution]

It looks similar to this Github issue. Search for xml-apis in your workspace and update the Maven dependency as mentioned at this page.

<dependency>
    <groupId>xml-apis</groupId>
    <artifactId>xml-apis</artifactId>
    <version>1.4.01</version>
</dependency>

If this xml-apis version doesn't work, you can try with a higher version as mentioned at https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/xml-apis/xml-apis

[former_member624139 · Accepted solution]

yes it worked