I am getting following error while deploying my project in tomcat 10.1.26 while trying to upgrade spring version from 5.3.36 to 6.1.11 along with upgrade of JDK from 11 to 17. I am kind of new to spring. Need some help to resolve this issue or tell me how I can approach to debug and resolve this issue. I am just going through internet and doing different combinations in my Pom file.
Error creating bean with name 'webMvcObjectMapperConfigurer' defined in class path resource [springfox/documentation/spring/web/SpringfoxWebMvcConfiguration.class]: BeanPostProcessor before instantiation of bean failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:517)
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.lambda$doGetBean$0(AbstractBeanFactory.java:337)
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:234)
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:335)
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:205)
org.springframework.context.support.PostProcessorRegistrationDelegate.registerBeanPostProcessors(PostProcessorRegistrationDelegate.java:277)
org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.registerBeanPostProcessors(AbstractApplicationContext.java:805)
org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:608)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:706)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:583)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initServletBean(FrameworkServlet.java:537)
org.springframework.web.servlet.HttpServletBean.init(HttpServletBean.java:169)
jakarta.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:143)
jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServlet.init(HttpServlet.java:121)
org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:483)
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:93)
org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:663)
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:344)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:389)
org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:63)
org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:904)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1741)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:52)
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1190)
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:659)
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:63)
java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:840)
Caused by: org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectJAdviceParameterNameDiscoverer$AmbiguousBindingException: Still 4 unbound args at this()/target()/args() binding stage, with no way to determine between them
at org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectJAdviceParameterNameDiscoverer.maybeBindThisOrTargetOrArgsFromPointcutExpression(AspectJAdviceParameterNameDiscoverer.java:488)
at org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectJAdviceParameterNameDiscoverer.getParameterNames(AspectJAdviceParameterNameDiscoverer.java:255)
at org.springframework.core.PrioritizedParameterNameDiscoverer.getParameterNames(PrioritizedParameterNameDiscoverer.java:55)
at org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AbstractAspectJAdvice.bindArgumentsByName(AbstractAspectJAdvice.java:434)
at org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AbstractAspectJAdvice.calculateArgumentBindings(AbstractAspectJAdvice.java:389)
at org.springframework.aop.aspectj.annotation.ReflectiveAspectJAdvisorFactory.getAdvice(ReflectiveAspectJAdvisorFactory.java:314)
at org.springframework.aop.aspectj.annotation.InstantiationModelAwarePointcutAdvisorImpl.instantiateAdvice(InstantiationModelAwarePointcutAdvisorImpl.java:152)
at org.springframework.aop.aspectj.annotation.InstantiationModelAwarePointcutAdvisorImpl.<init>(InstantiationModelAwarePointcutAdvisorImpl.java:116)
at org.springframework.aop.aspectj.annotation.ReflectiveAspectJAdvisorFactory.getAdvisor(ReflectiveAspectJAdvisorFactory.java:217)
at org.springframework.aop.aspectj.annotation.ReflectiveAspectJAdvisorFactory.getAdvisors(ReflectiveAspectJAdvisorFactory.java:146)
at org.springframework.aop.aspectj.annotation.BeanFactoryAspectJAdvisorsBuilder.buildAspectJAdvisors(BeanFactoryAspectJAdvisorsBuilder.java:115)
at org.springframework.aop.aspectj.annotation.AnnotationAwareAspectJAutoProxyCreator.findCandidateAdvisors(AnnotationAwareAspectJAutoProxyCreator.java:95)
at org.springframework.aop.aspectj.autoproxy.AspectJAwareAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.shouldSkip(AspectJAwareAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.java:101)
at org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AbstractAutoProxyCreator.postProcessBeforeInstantiation(AbstractAutoProxyCreator.java:281)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyBeanPostProcessorsBeforeInstantiation(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1130)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.resolveBeforeInstantiation(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1105)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:511)
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.lambda$doGetBean$0(AbstractBeanFactory.java:337)
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:234)
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:335)
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:205)
org.springframework.context.support.PostProcessorRegistrationDelegate.registerBeanPostProcessors(PostProcessorRegistrationDelegate.java:277)
org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.registerBeanPostProcessors(AbstractApplicationContext.java:805)
org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:608)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:706)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:583)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initServletBean(FrameworkServlet.java:537)
org.springframework.web.servlet.HttpServletBean.init(HttpServletBean.java:169)
jakarta.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:143)
jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServlet.init(HttpServlet.java:121)
org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:483)
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:93)
org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:663)
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:344)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:389)
org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:63)
org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:904)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1741)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:52)
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1190)
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:659)
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:63)
java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:840)
Initially found that spring-boot-autoconfigure dependency also bringing spring-aop library. So excluded spring-aop from spring-boot-autoconfigure but still the same issue exists.