Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to complete the scan for annotations for web application [] due to a StackOverflowError. Possible root causes include a too low setting for -Xss and illegal cyclic inheritance dependencies. The class hierarchy being processed was [org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1EncodableVector->org.bouncycastle.asn1.DEREncodableVector->org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1EncodableVector]
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.checkHandlesTypes(ContextConfig.java:2104)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsStream(ContextConfig.java:2048)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsJar(ContextConfig.java:1994)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsUrl(ContextConfig.java:1964)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotations(ContextConfig.java:1917)
...I am new to the Spring framework.
Here is the error message. Sometimes it can run while after stopping the project and re-run it, these messages are shown (but if I leave the IDE along for 5-10 mins, it can be run without errors).
What exactly is happening here? I am using the newest IDEA and Tomcat 8.
Solved. The reason is I was using a different version of Tomcat, version 8, while somehow the code is using version 7.
I am using macOS Mojave. On Windows, the code can be run via different versions, however, it seems that on macOS the version matters.