I am trying to import someone else's project
Java 1.8 Spring 4 Maven 3.3 Spring Data MongoDB 1.2.1.RELEASE MongoDB 2.4.5
while trying to run i get the following message.
SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder". SLF4J: Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder for further details. Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Failed to load bean class: com.myname.config.AppConfig; nested exception is org.springframework.core.NestedIOException: ASM ClassReader failed to parse class file - probably due to a new Java class file version that isn't supported yet: class path resource [java/lang/aotation/Target.class]; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException at org.springframework.context.aotation.ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.processConfigBeanDefinitions(ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.java:293) at org.springframework.context.aotation.ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.postProcessBeanDefinitionRegistry(ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.java:227) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.invokeBeanFactoryPostProcessors(AbstractApplicationContext.java:623) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:454) at org.springframework.context.aotation.AotationConfigApplicationContext.(AotationConfigApplicationContext.java:73) at com.myname.App.main(App.java:15) Caused by: org.springframework.core.NestedIOException: ASM ClassReader failed to parse class file - probably due to a new Java class file version that isn't supported yet: class path resource [java/lang/aotation/Target.class]; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException at org.springframework.core.type.classreading.SimpleMetadataReader.(SimpleMetadataReader.java:56) at org.springframework.core.type.classreading.SimpleMetadataReaderFactory.getMetadataReader(SimpleMetadataReaderFactory.java:80) at org.springframework.core.type.classreading.CachingMetadataReaderFactory.getMetadataReader(CachingMetadataReaderFactory.java:102) at org.springframework.core.type.classreading.SimpleMetadataReaderFactory.getMetadataReader(SimpleMetadataReaderFactory.java:76) at org.springframework.context.aotation.ConfigurationClassParser.getImports(ConfigurationClassParser.java:291) at org.springframework.context.aotation.ConfigurationClassParser.getImports(ConfigurationClassParser.java:293) at org.springframework.context.aotation.ConfigurationClassParser.getImports(ConfigurationClassParser.java:293) at org.springframework.context.aotation.ConfigurationClassParser.doProcessConfigurationClass(ConfigurationClassParser.java:223) at org.springframework.context.aotation.ConfigurationClassParser.processConfigurationClass(ConfigurationClassParser.java:147) at org.springframework.context.aotation.ConfigurationClassParser.parse(ConfigurationClassParser.java:124) at org.springframework.context.aotation.ConfigurationClassParser.doProcessConfigurationClass(ConfigurationClassParser.java:217) at org.springframework.context.aotation.ConfigurationClassParser.processConfigurationClass(ConfigurationClassParser.java:147) at org.springframework.context.aotation.ConfigurationClassParser.parse(ConfigurationClassParser.java:133) at org.springframework.context.aotation.ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.processConfigBeanDefinitions(ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.java:286) ... 5 more Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
Will truly appreciate any help.