Upgrade from Spring 2.5.x to Spring 4.1.x - JBoss

After completing the steps mentioned in my previous post for Upgrading Spring 2.5.x to Spring 4.1.x, the project compiles without problems, however, JBoss deployment does not work as it does not get all the required new Spring Jars.

The Spring component jars also need to be added to the JBoss classpath. However, here are a few specific exceptions that point to requiring specific jars in the JBoss classpath as below.

To resolve the below error, add spring-context.jar to JBoss library path:
java.lang.ArrayStoreException: sun.reflect.annotation.TypeNotPresentExceptionProxy
at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseClassArray(AnnotationParser.java:653)
at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseArray(AnnotationParser.java:460)
at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseMemberValue(AnnotationParser.java:286)
at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotation(AnnotationParser.java:222)
at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotations2(AnnotationParser.java:69)
at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotations(AnnotationParser.java:52)
at java.lang.Class.initAnnotationsIfNecessary(Class.java:3079)


To resolve the below error, add spring-beans.jar to JBoss library path
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/springframework/beans/factory/BeanFactory
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2436)
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods(Class.java:1793)
at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptor.InterceptorInfoRepository$AnnotationInitialiser.getInfo(InterceptorInfoRepository.java:704)
at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptor.InterceptorInfoRepository.initialiseFromAnnotations(InterceptorInfoRepository.java:469)
at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptor.InterceptorInfoRepository.getOrInitialiseFromAnnotations(InterceptorInfoRepository.java:451)
at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptor.InterceptorInfoRepository.getInterceptorsFromAnnotation(InterceptorInfoRepository.java:341)
at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptor.InterceptorInfoRepository.getClassInterceptors(InterceptorInfoRepository.java:139)
at org.jboss.ejb3.EJBContainer.initialiseInterceptors(EJBContainer.java:737)
at org.jboss.ejb3.EJBContainer.getClassInterceptors(EJBContainer.java:429)

Hopefully this should resolve all issues for a successful upgrade of Spring 2.5.x to Spring 4.1.x!