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spring Injection of autowired dependencies failed

I have been running my project on Java 7 (exact version: jdk1.7.0_60) but since there is a company wide policy changed to upgrade to Java 8 (version: jdk1.8.0_73) I have upgraded my local machine's JVM to jdk1.8.0_73 and configured my project on this version.
Following are the facts for my project:
Spring Framework Version: 4.0.3.RELEASE
Java: jdk1.8.0_73
Since then my application is throwing following exceptions:
Feb 16, 2016 12:15:14 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart
SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerMapping#0': Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.MappedInterceptor#1': Cannot create inner bean 'com.asi.core.spring.interceptor.ThrottleRequestInterceptor#0' of type [com.asi.core.spring.interceptor.ThrottleRequestInterceptor] while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'com.asi.core.spring.interceptor.ThrottleRequestInterceptor#0': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: com.asi.v1.ext.api.service.impl.ThrottleService com.asi.core.spring.interceptor.ThrottleRequestInterceptor.throttlerV1; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'throttlerV1': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate com.asi.v1.ext.api.service.impl.ThrottleService.restTemplate; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'restTemplate' defined in class path resource [spring/application-config.xml]: Cannot create inner bean 'org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter#4dd016c7' of type [org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter] while setting bean property 'messageConverters' with key [0]; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter#4dd016c7' defined in class path resource [spring/application-config.xml]: Cannot create inner bean 'org.springframework.http.MediaType#3ffc5996' of type [org.springframework.http.MediaType] while setting bean property 'supportedMediaTypes' with key [0]; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanExpressionException: Expression parsing failed; nested exception is org.springframework.expression.ExpressionInvocationTargetException: A problem occurred when trying to execute method 'forName' on object of type [java.lang.Class]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:547)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:475)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:304)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:228)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:300)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:195)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:703)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:760)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:482)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:403)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:306)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:106)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4797)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5291)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1559)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1549)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.MappedInterceptor#1': Cannot create inner bean 'com.asi.core.spring.interceptor.ThrottleRequestInterceptor#0' of type [com.asi.core.spring.interceptor.ThrottleRequestInterceptor] while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'com.asi.core.spring.interceptor.ThrottleRequestInterceptor#0': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: com.asi.v1.ext.api.service.impl.ThrottleService com.asi.core.spring.interceptor.ThrottleRequestInterceptor.throttlerV1; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'throttlerV1': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate com.asi.v1.ext.api.service.impl.ThrottleService.restTemplate; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'restTemplate' defined in class path resource [spring/application-config.xml]: Cannot create inner bean 'org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter#4dd016c7' of type [org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter] while setting bean property 'messageConverters' with key [0]; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter#4dd016c7' defined in class path resource [spring/application-config.xml]: Cannot create inner bean 'org.springframework.http.MediaType#3ffc5996' of type [org.springframework.http.MediaType] while setting bean property 'supportedMediaTypes' with key [0]; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanExpressionException: Expression parsing failed; nested exception is org.springframework.expression.ExpressionInvocationTargetException: A problem occurred when trying to execute method 'forName' on object of type [java.lang.Class]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveInnerBean(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:290)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveValueIfNecessary(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:122)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.resolveConstructorArguments(ConstructorResolver.java:632)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.autowireConstructor(ConstructorResolver.java:140)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.autowireConstructor(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1114)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBeanInstance(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1017)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:504)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:475)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:304)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:228)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:300)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:200)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.getBeansOfType(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:470)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.getBeansOfType(AbstractApplicationContext.java:1071)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactoryUtils.beansOfTypeIncludingAncestors(BeanFactoryUtils.java:277)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.AbstractHandlerMapping.detectMappedInterceptors(AbstractHandlerMapping.java:221)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.AbstractHandlerMapping.initApplicationContext(AbstractHandlerMapping.java:196)
at org.springframework.context.support.ApplicationObjectSupport.initApplicationContext(ApplicationObjectSupport.java:120)
at org.springframework.web.context.support.WebApplicationObjectSupport.initApplicationContext(WebApplicationObjectSupport.java:73)
at org.springframework.context.support.ApplicationObjectSupport.setApplicationContext(ApplicationObjectSupport.java:74)
at org.springframework.context.support.ApplicationContextAwareProcessor.invokeAwareInterfaces(ApplicationContextAwareProcessor.java:119)
at org.springframework.context.support.ApplicationContextAwareProcessor.postProcessBeforeInitialization(ApplicationContextAwareProcessor.java:94)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyBeanPostProcessorsBeforeInitialization(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:407)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1545)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:539)
... 20 more
Here is my spring configurations:
<?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:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
xmlns:cache="http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:web-services="http://www.springframework.org/schema/web-services"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-4.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.2.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache/spring-cache-3.2.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/web-services http://www.springframework.org/schema/web-services/web-services.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">
<mvc:annotation-driven/>
<web-services:annotation-driven/>
<web-services:dynamic-wsdl id="productSearch" portTypeName="ProductSearch"
targetNamespace="http://www.asicentral.com/schema/product" locationUri="/productSearchService">
<web-services:xsd location="/WEB-INF/product.xsd"/>
</web-services:dynamic-wsdl>
<web-services:dynamic-wsdl id="loginAPI" portTypeName="LoginAPI"
targetNamespace="http://www.asicentral.com/schema/login" locationUri="/loginAPI">
<web-services:xsd location="/WEB-INF/login.xsd"/>
</web-services:dynamic-wsdl>
<web-services:dynamic-wsdl id="batchAPI" portTypeName="BatchAPI"
targetNamespace="http://www.asicentral.com/schema/batch" locationUri="/batchAPI">
<web-services:xsd location="/WEB-INF/batch.xsd"/>
</web-services:dynamic-wsdl>
<context:component-scan base-package="com.asi"></context:component-scan>
<mvc:interceptors>
<bean class="com.asi.core.spring.interceptor.ThrottleRequestInterceptor" />
</mvc:interceptors>
<cache:annotation-driven />
<import resource="v1.xml"/>
<!-- When more versions are listed load version specific xml config -->
<import resource="v2.xml"/>
<import resource="v3.xml"/>
<bean id="headerHandler" class="com.asi.v1.service.resource.util.ExternalApiHeaderHandler" />
<bean id="ExternalApiApplicationContextProvider" class="com.asi.core.spring.config.provider.ExternalApiApplicationContextProvider"></bean>
<bean id="environmentConfigurator" class="com.asi.ext.api.config.EnvironmentConfigurator">
<property name="env" value="${Ext.env}"></property>
<property name="lookupRestTemplate" ref="restTemplate"></property>
</bean>
<bean id="ehcache" class="org.springframework.cache.ehcache.EhCacheManagerFactoryBean" p:config-location="classpath:ehcache.xml"/>
<bean id="cacheManager" class="org.springframework.cache.ehcache.EhCacheCacheManager" p:cache-manager-ref="ehcache"/>
<context:property-placeholder location="classpath:${Ext.env}-environment.properties, classpath:velocity-import*.properties, classpath:radar-version.properties" order="1"/>
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.ContentNegotiatingViewResolver">
<property name="mediaTypes">
<map>
<entry key="xml" value="application/xml"/>
<entry key="html" value="text/html"/>
<entry key="json" value="application/json"/>
</map>
</property>
<property name="viewResolvers">
<list>
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.BeanNameViewResolver"/>
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/"/>
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/>
</bean>
</list>
</property>
<property name="defaultViews">
<list>
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.json.MappingJackson2JsonView" />
</list>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="dataSource" class = "com.mchange.v2.c3p0.ComboPooledDataSource" destroy-method="close">
<property name="driverClass" value="com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver" />
<property name="jdbcUrl" value="jdbc:sqlserver://${db.velocity.host}:${db.velocity.port};databaseName=${db.velocity.database}" />
<property name="user" value="${db.velocity.username}" />
<property name="password" value="${db.velocity.password}" />
<!-- these are C3P0 properties -->
<property name="acquireIncrement" value="1" />
<property name="minPoolSize" value="5" />
<property name="maxPoolSize" value="20" />
<property name="maxIdleTime" value="300" />
</bean>
<bean id="hibernate3AnnotatedSessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<property name="annotatedClasses">
<list>
<value>com.asi.ext.api.dao.ExternalAPILogger</value>
</list>
</property>
<property name="hibernateProperties">
<props>
<prop key="hibernate.show_sql">false</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.SQLServerDialect</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.current_session_context_class">thread</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="logDAO" class="com.asi.ext.api.dao.ExternalApiLoggerImpl">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="hibernate3AnnotatedSessionFactory" />
</bean>
<bean id="restTemplate" class="org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate">
<property name="messageConverters">
<list>
<bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter">
<property name="supportedMediaTypes">
<list>
<bean class="org.springframework.http.MediaType">
<constructor-arg value="application" />
<constructor-arg value="json" />
<constructor-arg value="#{T(java.nio.charset.Charset).forName('UTF-8')}"/>
</bean>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
<bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.xml.SourceHttpMessageConverter"/>
<bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.StringHttpMessageConverter ">
<constructor-arg value="#{T(java.nio.charset.Charset).forName('UTF-8')}"/>
</bean>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="messageSource" class="org.springframework.context.support.ResourceBundleMessageSource">
<property name="basename">
<value>error</value>
</property>
</bean>
</beans>
whereas, the v1, v2 & v3.xml imports are for different versions of beans. For example, below is just v1.xml:
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
xmlns:cache="http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:web-services="http://www.springframework.org/schema/web-services"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-4.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.2.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache/spring-cache-3.2.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/web-services http://www.springframework.org/schema/web-services/web-services.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">
<bean id="loginServiceV1" class="com.asi.v1.ext.api.service.impl.LoginServiceImpl">
<property name="restTemplate" ref="restTemplate" />
<property name="loginAPIUrl" value="${ws.api.login}" />
<property name="authorizationKey" value="${ws.api.login.doorman.key}" />
<property name="authorizationScheme" value="${ws.api.login.doorman.auth.scheme}" />
<property name="grantTypeKey" value="${ws.api.login.doorman.auth.grant_type.key}" />
<property name="grantTypeValue" value="${ws.api.login.doorman.auth.grant_type.value}" />
<property name="appCodeKey" value="${ws.api.login.doorman.auth.app_code.key}" />
<property name="appCodeValue" value="${ws.api.login.doorman.auth.app_code.value}" />
<property name="appVersionKey" value="${ws.api.login.doorman.auth.app_version.key}" />
<property name="appVersionValue" value="${ws.api.login.doorman.auth.app_version.value}" />
</bean>
<bean id="batchServiceV1" class="com.asi.v1.ext.api.service.impl.BatchServiceImpl">
<property name="restTemplate" ref="restTemplate" />
<property name="createBatchURL" value="${ws.api.batch.create}" />
<property name="finalizeBatchURL" value="${ws.api.batch.finalize}" />
</bean>
<bean id="productServiceClientV1" class="com.asi.v1.service.product.client.ProductClient">
<property name="productSearchUrl" value="${ws.api.product.import}" />
<property name="scheme" value="${ws.api.authorization.scheme}" />
</bean>
<bean id="throttlerV1" class="com.asi.v1.ext.api.service.impl.ThrottleService">
<property name="radarLoginService" value="${ws.api.throttle.radar.validate.token.url}" />
<property name="throttleRequest" value="${ws.api.throttle.required}" />
<property name="maximumRequests" value="${ws.api.throttle.maximum.requests}" />
<property name="maximumWaitCalendarField" value="${ws.api.throttle.wait.time.field}" />
<property name="maximumWaitHours" value="${ws.api.throttle.wait.time}" />
<property name="restTemplate" ref="restTemplate"/>
</bean>
<!-- <bean id="loginService" class="com.asi.v1.service.resource.LoginService">
<property name="loginAPIUrl" value="${ws.api.login}"></property>
</bean> -->
<!-- <bean id="lookupDataStore" class="com.asi.v1.ext.api.product.transformers.ProductDataStore">
<property name="lookupRestTemplate" ref="restTemplate"/>
<property name="lookupConverter" ref="jsonlookupConvertor" />
</bean>
<bean id="jsonlookupConvertor" class="com.asi.v1.ext.api.util.JsonToLookupTableConverter">
<property name="lookupRestTemplate" ref="restTemplate"/>
</bean> -->
<bean id="lookupValuesClientV1" class="com.asi.v1.service.product.client.LookupValuesClient">
<property name="lookupRestTemplate" ref="restTemplate"/>
<property name="lookupColorURL" value="${lookup.color.url}"></property>
<property name="lookupSizeURL" value="${lookup.sizes.url}"></property>
<property name="lookupMaterialURL" value="${lookup.material.url}"></property>
<property name="lookupcriteriaAttributeURL" value="${lookup.sizes.criteria.url}"></property>
<property name="originLookupURL" value="${lookup.orgin.url}"></property>
<property name="lookupCategoryURL" value="${lookup.product.categories.url}"></property>
<property name="lookupArtworkURL" value="${lookup.imprint.artwork.url}"></property>
<property name="lookupImprintURL" value="${lookup.imprint.url}"></property>
<property name="lookupTradeNameURL" value="${lookup.product.trade.names.url}"></property>
<property name="lookupShapeURL" value="${lookup.product.shapes.url}"></property>
<property name="lookupPackageURL" value="${lookup.packaging.url}"></property>
</bean>
<bean id="lookupParserV1" class="com.asi.v1.ext.api.integration.lookup.parser.LookupParser">
<!-- <property name="lookupClient" ref="lookupValuesClient"/> -->
<!-- <property name="imprintParser" ref="imprintMethodParser"/> -->
</bean>
<bean id="criteriasParser" class="com.asi.v1.ext.api.integration.lookup.parser.CriteriaSetParser">
<!-- <property name="productLookupParser" ref="lookupParser"/> -->
</bean>
<bean id="productConfigurationParser" class="com.asi.v1.ext.api.integration.lookup.parser.ProductConfigurationsParser">
<property name="productLookupParser" ref="lookupParser"/>
</bean>
<bean id="configurationParserV1" class="com.asi.v1.ext.api.integration.lookup.parser.ConfigurationsParser">
<!-- <property name="productLookupParser" ref="lookupParser"/> -->
</bean>
<bean id="imprintMethodParserV1" class="com.asi.v1.ext.api.integration.lookup.parser.ImprintParser">
<!-- <property name="criteriaLookupParser" ref="criteriasParser"/>
<property name="lookupsParser" ref="lookupParser"/> -->
</bean>
<bean id="productServiceV1" class="com.asi.v1.ext.api.service.impl.ProductServiceImpl">
</bean>
<bean id="productRepoV1" class="com.asi.v1.core.repo.product.ProductRepo">
<!-- <property name="productClient" ref="productServiceClient"/> -->
<!-- <property name="productConfiguration" ref="productConfigurationParser"/> -->
<!-- <property name="configurationParser" ref="configurationParser"/> -->
<!-- <property name="imprintParser" ref="imprintMethodParser"/> -->
<!-- <property name="productRestTemplate" ref="restTemplate"/> -->
<property name="productImportURL" value="${ws.api.product.import}"></property>
<property name="batchProcessingURL" value="${lookup.batch.processing}"></property>
<!-- <property name="lookupDataStore" ref="lookupDataStore" /> -->
<!-- <property name="lookupsParser" ref="lookupParser"/> -->
</bean>
<!-- To enable #RequestMapping process on type level and method level -->
<bean id="productDetailV1" class="com.asi.v1.service.product.client.vo.ProductDetail"/>
</beans>
This issue was never there until i was using Java 7 version when I switched it to Java 8 then I am seeing this exception. Due to limitation of this editor I cannot paste the entire exception log. Will paste in comments if you need.
Can anyone help me with this issue?

Try value="java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8" instead of value="#{T(java.nio.charset.Charset).forName('UTF-8')}". You would also need to name your parameters otherwise Spring won't be able to instantiate the MediaType since multiple constructors with 3 parameters exist.
You can try the following code :
<bean class="org.springframework.http.MediaType" >
<constructor-arg name="type" value="application" />
<constructor-arg name="subtype" value="json" />
<constructor-arg name="charset" value="#{T(java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets).UTF_8}"/>
</bean>

Thank you #louis-f for pointing out the issue and providing the solution. I tried to resolve this issue with the above suggestions but it was still giving the same exceptions.
Then I tried following and it resolves my issue:
<bean id="restTemplate" class="org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate">
<property name="messageConverters">
<list>
<bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter">
<property name="supportedMediaTypes">
<list>
<bean class="org.springframework.http.MediaType">
<constructor-arg name="type" value="application"/>
<constructor-arg name="subtype" value="json"/>
<constructor-arg name="charset" value="UTF-8" />
</bean>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
<bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.xml.SourceHttpMessageConverter"/>
<bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.StringHttpMessageConverter">
<constructor-arg name="defaultCharset" value="UTF-8" />
</bean>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
So, what I actually did is just changed the charset constructor argument to string value i.e. "UTF-8" and it did worked for me.
On the application debugging - I checked the object restTemplate in inspect element and now I have everything coming properly for the messageConverters list.
Thanks again.

How to resolve Spring Batch Error?

I am trying to learn Spring batch for writing batch jobs in java. So i am using this tutorial.
Now the problem is after I have used all the jars, i started executing the project . This left me with a devious error :
INFO: Destroying singletons in org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory#1e7b1e7b: defining beans [jobLauncher,jobRepository,transactionManager,wordsFWTasklet,numbersFWTasklet,taskletStep,fileWritingJob]; root of factory hierarchy
Sep 3, 2013 8:09:29 AM org.springframework.batch.core.launch.support.CommandLineJobRunner start
SEVERE: Job Terminated in error: Error creating bean with name 'fileWritingJob' defined in class path resource [fileWritingJob.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.NullPointerException
Throwable occurred: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'fileWritingJob' defined in class path resource [fileWritingJob.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:478)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.springframework.core.GenericTypeResolver.getTypeVariableMap(GenericTypeResolver.java:144)
at org.springframework.core.GenericTypeResolver.resolveReturnType(GenericTypeResolver.java:93)
In case, you want to know the code that i have used for my configuration xml, it's below :
fileWritingJob.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"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
<import resource="applicationContext.xml"/>
<bean id="wordsFWTasklet" class="FileCreatorTasklet">
<property name="filePath" value="C:\\temp\\words.txt"/>
<property name="content" value="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuwxyz"/>
</bean>
<bean id="numbersFWTasklet" class="FileCreatorTasklet">
<property name="filePath" value="C:\\temp\\numbers.txt"/>
<property name="content" value="0123456789"/>
</bean>
<bean id="taskletStep" abstract="true"
class="org.springframework.batch.core.step.tasklet.TaskletStep">
<property name="jobRepository" ref="jobRepository"/>
</bean>
<bean id="fileWritingJob" class="org.springframework.batch.core.job.SimpleJob">
<property name="name" value="fileWritingJob" />
<property name="steps">
<list>
<bean parent="taskletStep">
<property name="tasklet" ref="wordsFWTasklet"/>
<property name="transactionManager" ref="transactionManager"/>
</bean>
<bean parent="taskletStep">
<property name="tasklet" ref="numbersFWTasklet"/>
<property name="transactionManager" ref="transactionManager"/>
</bean>
</list>
</property>
<property name="jobRepository" ref="jobRepository"/>
</bean>
</beans>
EDIT :
ApplicationContext.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"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd">
<bean id="jobLauncher" class="org.springframework.batch.core.launch.support.SimpleJobLauncher">
<property name="jobRepository" ref="jobRepository"/>
</bean>
<bean id="jobRepository" class="org.springframework.batch.core.repository.support.SimpleJobRepository">
<constructor-arg>
<bean class="org.springframework.batch.core.repository.dao.MapJobInstanceDao"/>
</constructor-arg>
<constructor-arg>
<bean class="org.springframework.batch.core.repository.dao.MapJobExecutionDao" />
</constructor-arg>
<constructor-arg>
<bean class="org.springframework.batch.core.repository.dao.MapStepExecutionDao"/>
</constructor-arg>
<constructor-arg>
<bean class="org.springframework.batch.core.repository.dao.MapExecutionContextDao"/>
</constructor-arg>
</bean>
<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.batch.support.transaction.ResourcelessTransactionManager"/>
</beans>
Can any one tell me what am i doing wrong here ?

Which versione of spring-batch are you using? With 2.2.1.RELEASE (and 3.2.3.RELEASE of Spring framework) this example works fine!
Libraries (from maven) are:
org.springframework
spring-core
spring-beans
spring-context
spring-batch-core
spring-batch-infrastructure

Fail to create bean in spring suddently

I have encountered a problem of failed to create bean in spring suddenly. The webapp is already deployed and has been running for several months. However, below error message comes suddenly. It can be resolved by restarting the webapp, but comes again without any hints. Does anyone have any idea of this case?
Tomcat 6 is being used to host the webapp.
[2013/05/03 12:02:56:421 HKT] ajp-8009-42 org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseXMLFilter(227) - Exception in the filter chain
javax.servlet.ServletException: Error creating bean with name 'reportGenerationBean' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'scheduleBean' while setting bean property 'scheduleBean'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'scheduleBean': Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
applicationContext.xml as below
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans
xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-2.5.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-2.5.xsd">
<context:property-placeholder location="classpath*:webapp.properties,classpath*:env_prod.properties"/>
<context:annotation-config />
<bean id="facesUtils" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.MethodInvokingFactoryBean">
<property name="staticMethod">
<value>com.webapp.util.FacesUtils.init</value>
</property>
<property name="arguments">
<list>
<value>com.webapp.config.SpringBeanEnum</value>
<value>com.webapp.config.FacesBeanEnum</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager">
<property name="sessionFactory"><ref local="inspectbookSessionFactory"/></property>
</bean>
<context:component-scan base-package="com.webapp.bo, com.webapp.service" />
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" />
<bean id="hibernateDAO" abstract="true">
<property name="sessionFactory"><ref local="inspectbookSessionFactory"/></property>
</bean>
<!-- Temporary Setting -->
<bean id="ItemSearchBeanDao" class="com.webapp.dao.tmp.ItemSearchBeanDao" parent="hibernateDAO">
<property name="maxRecordNo" value="${no_of_record.order}"/>
</bean>
<bean id="BookedSearchBeanDao" class="com.webapp.dao.tmp.BookedSearchBeanDao" parent="hibernateDAO">
<property name="maxRecordNo" value="${no_of_record.booked}"/>
</bean>
<bean id="ScheduleBeanDao" class="com.webapp.dao.tmp.ScheduleBeanDao" parent="hibernateDAO"></bean>
<bean id="WhItemSearchBeanDao" class="com.webapp.dao.tmp.WhItemSearchBeanDao" parent="hibernateDAO">
<property name="maxRecordNo" value="${no_of_record.whItem}"/>
</bean>
<bean id="mailSender" class="org.springframework.mail.javamail.JavaMailSenderImpl">
<property name="host" value="-secret-"/>
</bean>
<bean id="EmailUtil" class="com.webapp.util.EmailUtil">
<property name="mailSender" ref="mailSender"/>
</bean>
<bean id="freeMarkerTemplateMailer" class="com.webapp.bo.email.impl.FreeMarkerTemplateMailer">
<property name="mailSender" ref="mailSender"/>
</bean>
<bean id="emailService" class="com.webapp.bo.email.impl.EmailServiceImpl" >
<property name="orgunitDao" ref="OrgunitDAO"/>
<property name="contactMethodDao" ref="ContactMethodDAO"/>
<property name="mailer" ref="freeMarkerTemplateMailer"/>
</bean>
<bean id="scheduleEmail" class="com.webapp.bo.schedule.impl.ScheduleEmailImpl" >
<property name="orgunitDao" ref="OrgunitDAO"/>
<property name="scheduleBeanDao" ref="ScheduleBeanDao"/>
<property name="emailService" ref="emailService"/>
</bean>
<bean name="scheduleJob" class="org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.JobDetailBean">
<property name="jobClass" value="com.webapp.service.schedule.ScheduleJob" />
<property name="jobDataAsMap">
<map>
<entry key="scheduleEmail" value-ref="scheduleEmail" />
</map>
</property>
</bean>
<!-- JSF backing bean START -->
<bean id="vendorSearchBean" class="com.webapp.service.search.item.VendorSearchBean" scope="session">
<property name="maxRecordNo" value="${no_of_record.vendor}"/>
</bean>
<bean id="itemSearchBean" name="itemSearchBean" class="com.webapp.service.search.item.NewItemSearchBean" scope="session">
<property name="maxRecordNo" value="${no_of_record.order}"/>
<property name="popupBean" ref="popupBean"/>
</bean>
<bean id="itemSearchPopupBean" name="itemSearchPopupBean" class="com.webapp.service.search.item.NewItemSearchBean" scope="session">
<property name="maxRecordNo" value="${no_of_record.order}"/>
</bean>
<bean id="detailBean" class="com.webapp.service.detail.DetailBean" scope="session">
<property name="itemSearchBean" ref="itemSearchBean"/>
<property name="itemSearchPopupBean" ref="itemSearchPopupBean"/>
<property name="popupBean" ref="popupBean"/>
</bean>
<bean id="bookedSearchBean" class="com.webapp.service.search.booked.BookedSearchBean" scope="session">
<property name="maxRecordNo" value="${no_of_record.booked}"/>
</bean>
<bean id="scheduleConfirmBean" class="com.webapp.service.schedule.ScheduleConfirmBean" scope="session">
<property name="popupBean" ref="popupBean"/>
</bean>
<bean id="scheduleBean" class="com.webapp.service.search.schedule.ScheduleBean" scope="session">
<property name="popupBean" ref="popupBean"/>
</bean>
<bean id="dropBean" class="com.webapp.service.search.schedule.DropBean" scope="request">
<property name="scheduleBean" ref="scheduleBean"/>
</bean>
<bean id="inspectContactBean" class="com.webapp.service.detail.contact.InspectContactBean" scope="session">
<property name="detailBean" ref="detailBean"/>
</bean>
<bean id="inspectLocationBean" class="com.webapp.service.detail.contact.InspectLocationBean" scope="session">
<property name="detailBean" ref="detailBean"/>
</bean>
<bean id="whItemSearchBean" class="com.webapp.service.search.warehouse.WhItemSearchBean" scope="session">
<property name="maxRecordNo" value="${no_of_record.whItem}"/>
<!--<property name="propertiesUtil" ref="propertiesUtil"/>-->
</bean>
<!-- Autocomplete -->
<bean id="autocomplete" class="com.webapp.service.common.AutocompleteBean" scope="session"></bean>
<!-- PackingListBean -->
<bean id="packingListBean" class="com.webapp.service.common.PackingListBean" scope="session">
<property name="itemSearchBean" ref="itemSearchBean"/>
<property name="popupBean" ref="popupBean"/>
</bean>
<!-- Report Bean -->
<bean id="reportGenerationBean" class="com.webapp.service.report.ReportGenerationBean" scope="request">
<property name="itemSearchBean" ref="itemSearchBean"/>
<property name="packingListBean" ref="packingListBean"/>
<property name="scheduleBean" ref="scheduleBean"/>
</bean>
<!-- popupBean -->
<bean id="popupBean" class="com.webapp.service.common.PopupControlBean" scope="session">
</bean>
<!-- JSF backing bean END -->
</beans>

Java Spring: getting error " Unknown property sub-element: <util:constant>"

I'm trying to use the util:constant tag for ioc, but I'm getting the following error message:
Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Error registering bean with name 'threadPoolExecutor' defined in class path resource [spring.xml]: Unknown property sub-element: <util:constant>
Here's my 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:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.1.xsd">
<bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
<property name="locations">
<value>classpath:config.properties</value>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="main" class="pikefin.Main">
<property name="executorSample" ref="executorSample"/>
</bean>
<bean id="executorSample" class="pikefin.ExecutorSample">
<constructor-arg ref="threadPoolExecutor" />
</bean>
<bean id="threadPoolExecutor" class="java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor">
<constructor-arg index="0" value="2"/>
<constructor-arg index="1" value="2"/>
<constructor-arg index="2" value="10"/>
<constructor-arg index="3"><util:constant static-field="java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit.SECONDS"/></constructor-arg>
<constructor-arg index="4" ref="arrayBlockingPool"/>
</bean>
<bean id="arrayBlockingPool" class="java.util.concurrent.ArrayBlockingQueue">
<constructor-arg value="5"/>
</bean>
</beans>
Update:
Here's my xml with the <value> tag added which causes a different error message:
Invalid content was found starting with element 'util:constant'. No child element is expected at this point.
(Sidenote: for some reason my formatting controls have disappeared when posting in SO)
<?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:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.1.xsd">
<bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
<property name="locations">
<value>classpath:config.properties</value>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="main" class="pikefin.Main">
<property name="executorSample" ref="executorSample"/>
</bean>
<bean id="executorSample" class="pikefin.ExecutorSample">
<constructor-arg ref="threadPoolExecutor" />
</bean>
<bean id="threadPoolExecutor" class="java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor">
<constructor-arg index="0" value="2"/>
<constructor-arg index="1" value="2"/>
<constructor-arg index="2" value="10"/>
<constructor-arg index="3">
<value>
<util:constant static-field="java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit.SECONDS"/>
</value>
</constructor-arg>
<constructor-arg index="4" ref="arrayBlockingPool"/>
</bean>
<bean id="arrayBlockingPool" class="java.util.concurrent.ArrayBlockingQueue">
<constructor-arg value="5"/>
</bean>
</beans>

For enum's you can directly assign the values and Spring will take care of binding it to the correct enum:
<constructor-arg index="3" value="SECONDS">
Also, your original entry worked for me perfectly:
<bean id="threadPoolExecutor" class="java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor">
<constructor-arg index="0" value="2"/>
<constructor-arg index="1" value="2"/>
<constructor-arg index="2" value="10"/>
<constructor-arg index="3"><util:constant static-field="java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit.SECONDS"/></constructor-arg>
<constructor-arg index="4" ref="arrayBlockingPool"/>
</bean>

how to wire the hibernate session factory manually in spring config

I have the hibernate-context
<context:property-placeholder location="/WEB-INF/spring.properties" />
<!-- Enable annotation style of managing transactions -->
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" />
<!-- Declare the Hibernate SessionFactory for retrieving Hibernate sessions -->
<!-- See http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/javadoc-api/org/springframework/orm/hibernate3/annotation/AnnotationSessionFactoryBean.html -->
<!-- See http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/core/api/index.html?org/hibernate/SessionFactory.html -->
<!-- See http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/core/api/index.html?org/hibernate/Session.html -->
<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean"
p:dataSource-ref="dataSource"
p:configLocation="${hibernate.config}"
p:packagesToScan="com.vaannila"/>
<!-- Declare a datasource that has pooling capabilities-->
<bean id="dataSource" class="com.mchange.v2.c3p0.ComboPooledDataSource"
destroy-method="close"
p:driverClass="${app.jdbc.driverClassName}"
p:jdbcUrl="${app.jdbc.url}"
p:user="${app.jdbc.username}"
p:password="${app.jdbc.password}"
p:acquireIncrement="5"
p:idleConnectionTestPeriod="60"
p:maxPoolSize="100"
p:maxStatements="50"
p:minPoolSize="10" />
<!-- Declare a transaction manager-->
<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager"
p:sessionFactory-ref="sessionFactory" />
</beans>
now i want to pass sessionFactory in my constructor of DAO like below
<bean id="registrationDAO" class="com.vaannila.dao.RegistrationDAOimpl" >
<constructor-arg ref="sessionFactory"/>
</bean>
but error says that bean sessionfactory not found
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'registrationDAO' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'sessionFactory' while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No bean named 'sessionFactory' is defined
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:328)

This work for me
<bean id="hibernateSessionFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="configLocation">
<value>classpath:/hibernate.cfg.xml</value>
</property>
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource">
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="hibernateTransactionManager"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="hibernateSessionFactory" />
</bean>
<bean class="com.vaannila.dao.RegistrationDAOimpl"
id="registrationDAO">
<property name="sessionFactory">
<ref bean="hibernateSessionFactory" />
</property>
</bean>