Getting the below error when doing formvalidation in spring

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: javax.servlet.ServletException: java.lang.IllegalAccessError: tried to access method org.springframework.validation.AbstractPropertyBindingResult.getCustomEditor(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/beans/PropertyEditor; from class org.springframework.web.servlet.support.BindStatus
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:460)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:355)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:329)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:265)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceView.renderMergedOutputModel(InternalResourceView.java:142)
org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractView.render(AbstractView.java:243)
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.render(DispatcherServlet.java:1141)
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:878)
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:792)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:475)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:430)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:617)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
root cause

javax.servlet.ServletException: java.lang.IllegalAccessError: tried to access method org.springframework.validation.AbstractPropertyBindingResult.getCustomEditor(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/beans/PropertyEditor; from class org.springframework.web.servlet.support.BindStatus
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doHandlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:841)

anybody having idea... please help me... thanks in advance

please find the project files:

redirect.jsp:
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<%@ page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<%
response.sendRedirect("userRegistration.htm");
%>

registration.jsp:
-----------------

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<%@ taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" prefix="form"%>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Insert title here</title>
</head>
<body>
<form:form method="POST" commandName="user">
<table>

<tr>
<td>UserName :</td>
<td><form:input path="name" /></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>Password :</td>
<td><form:password path="password" />
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>Gender</td>
<td><form:radiobutton path="gender" value="M" title="M" /> <form:radiobutton
path="gender" value="F" title="F" />
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>Country :</td>
<td><form:select path="country">
<form

ption value="0" label="India"></form

ption>
<form

ption value="1" label="USA"></form

ption>
<form

ption value="2" label="Australia"></form

ption>
<form

ption value="3" label="UK"></form

ption>
</form:select>
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>AboutYou :</td>
<td><form:textarea path="aboutYou" />
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>Community :</td>
<td><form:checkbox path="community" value="Spring"
title="Spring" /> <form:checkbox path="community"
value="Hibernate" title="Hibernate" /> <form:checkbox
path="community" value="Struts" title="Struts" />
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td></td>
<td><form:checkbox path="mailingList"
title="Would like to join our mailingList? " /></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td colspan="2"><input type="submit">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form:form>
</body>
</html>

userSuccess.jsp:
------------------

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Insert title here</title>
</head>
<body>
User Details
<hr>
User Name : ${user.name}
<br /> Gender : ${user.gender}
<br /> Country : ${user.country}
<br /> Country : ${user.country}
<br /> About You : ${user.aboutYou}
<br /> Community : ${user.community[0]} ${user.community[1]}
${user.community[2]}
<br /> Mailing List: ${user.mailingList}
</body>
</html>

pasting some more:

dispatcher-servlet.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:jdbc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc" xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee"
xmlns:lang="http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang" xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
xmlns:task="http://www.springframework.org/schema/task" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc/spring-jdbc-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang/spring-lang-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/task http://www.springframework.org/schema/task/spring-task-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.0.xsd">
<bean id="viewResolver"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver"
p:prefix="/WEB-INF/jsp/" p:suffix=".jsp"></bean>

<bean id="userSerivce" class="com.form.validations.UserServiceImpl"></bean>

<bean name="/userRegistration.htm" class="com.form.validations.UserController"
p:userService-ref="userSerivce" p:formView="registration"
p:successView="userSuccess">
<property name="commandName" value="user"></property>
</bean>
</beans>

web.xml :
----------

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
<display-name>FormValidation</display-name>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.htm</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>redirect.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

User.java
-----------

package com.form.validations;

public class User {

private String name;
private String password;
private String gender;
private String country;
private String aboutYou;
private String[] community;
private Boolean mailingList;

public String getName() {
return name;
}

public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}

public String getPassword() {
return password;
}

public void setPassword(String password) {
this.password = password;
}

public String getGender() {
return gender;
}

public void setGender(String gender) {
this.gender = gender;
}

public String getCountry() {
return country;
}

public void setCountry(String country) {
this.country = country;
}

public String getAboutYou() {
return aboutYou;
}

public void setAboutYou(String aboutYou) {
this.aboutYou = aboutYou;
}

public String[] getCommunity() {
return community;
}

public void setCommunity(String[] community) {
this.community = community;
}

public Boolean getMailingList() {
return mailingList;
}

public void setMailingList(Boolean mailingList) {
this.mailingList = mailingList;
}

}

UserController.java:
----------------------

package com.form.validations;

import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.SimpleFormController;

public class UserController extends SimpleFormController {

private UserService userService;

public UserController() {
setCommandClass(User.class);
setCommandName("user");
}

public void setUserService(UserService userService) {
this.userService = userService;
}

protected ModelAndView onSubmit(Object command) throws Exception {
User user = (User) command;
userService.add(user);
return new ModelAndView("userSuccess", "user", user);
}
}

UserService.java:
--------------------
package com.form.validations;

public interface UserService {

public void add(User user);
}

UserServiceImpl.java:
-------------------------

package com.form.validations;

public class UserServiceImpl implements UserService {

@Override
public void add(User user) {
System.out.println("User added successfully");
}
}

url : localhost:10206/FormValidation/userRegistration.htm

please use code tags, unformatted codes are difficult to read..
How you are doing your form validation? I dont see any validator here.. and when you get this exception? when you request for it or submit the form?

First of all thanks for your interest... Prasad...

I missed the validation part... whatever the code i have posted is related to register a user...

if the user is successfully registered then we will display user details ... by using modelAndview in UserController which extends SimpleFormController

while running this app. (url : localhost:10206/FormValidation/userRegistration.htm) i am getting error..

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: javax.servlet.ServletException: java.lang.IllegalAccessError: tried to access method org.springframework.validation.AbstractPropertyBindingResult.getCustomEditor(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/beans/PropertyEditor; from class org.springframework.web.servlet.support.BindStatus
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:460)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:355)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:329)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:265)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceView.renderMergedOutputModel(InternalResourceView.java:142)
org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractView.render(AbstractView.java:243)
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.render(DispatcherServlet.java:1141)

I think, this exception has got to do with multiple versions of spring.. Can, you please post the list of all Jar files you are deploying..

list of jars :

/FormValidation/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/activation.jar
/FormValidation/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/antlr-runtime-3.0.jar
/FormValidation/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/aopalliance-alpha1.jar
/FormValidation/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/commons-dbcp.jar
/FormValidation/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/commons-logging-1.0.4.jar
/FormValidation/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/commons-pool.jar
/FormValidation/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/DatabaseConnectors.jar
/FormValidation/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/log4j-1.2.16.jar
/FormValidation/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/mail.jar
/FormValidation/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/ojdbc5.jar
/FormValidation/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/org.springframework.aop-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar
/FormValidation/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/org.springframework.asm-3.0.0.M3.jar
/FormValidation/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/org.springframework.asm-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar
/FormValidation/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/org.springframework.beans-3.0.0.M3.jar
/FormValidation/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/org.springframework.beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar
/FormValidation/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/org.springframework.context.support-3.0.0.M3.jar
/FormValidation/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/org.springframework.context-3.0.0.M3.jar
/FormValidation/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/org.springframework.context-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar
/FormValidation/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/org.springframework.core-3.0.0.M3.jar
/FormValidation/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/org.springframework.core-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar
/FormValidation/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/org.springframework.expression-3.0.0.M3.jar
/FormValidation/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/org.springframework.expression-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar
/FormValidation/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/org.springframework.jdbc-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar
/FormValidation/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/org.springframework.test-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar
/FormValidation/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/org.springframework.transaction-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar
/FormValidation/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/spring-2.0.6.jar
/FormValidation/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/spring-aop.jar
/FormValidation/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/spring-dao.jar
/FormValidation/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/spring-web.jar
/FormValidation/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/spring-webmvc.jar

I can see a mix of different versions of spring jars, for instance spring-2.0.6.jar, spring-webmvc.jar, these jars are for spring 2.x releases.. Also, you have spring 3.x versions of jars.. Can you try putting any of the 3.x stable version jars of spring. Also, remove other version of spring jars.. like spring-2.0.6.jar,spring-web.jar .. so on..

sure...prasad... will try with the suggested changes