> why is there a spring 1.2.4 version in the classpath ?
> You need to remove it somehow.
It appears to be coming in via the maven-xbean-plugin, which seems to
import xbean-spring. I have tried over-riding the dependency on xbean
spring in the plugin reference and excluding Spring, but that doesnt work
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.xbean</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-xbean-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${xbean-version}</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.xbean</groupId>
<artifactId>xbean-spring</artifactId>
<version>${xbean-version}</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>mapping</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<namespace>http://com.metaconcepts.ball/1.0</namespace>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
Terry
