Resolving @ContextConfiguration(classes={AppConfig.class}) error (Spring JavaConfig)

@ContextConfiguration(classes={AppConfig.class})

has given a lot of cryptic error messages

in the end solution was very simple to upgrade the Spring to the latest version; in my case it was: 3.0.7.RELEASE -> 3.2.3.RELEASE

Some people suggested to include the following; but it works fine for me without these dependencies.

        <dependency>
            <groupId>cglib</groupId>
            <artifactId>cglib</artifactId>
            <version>3.0</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>asm</groupId>
            <artifactId>asm-commons</artifactId>
            <version>3.3.1</version>
        </dependency>

 

 

Here are some of the error messages:

Cannot resolve method ‘classes’

There is the following compilation error:
error: cannot find symbol @interface ContextConfiguration

 

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