To help others with this issue,
I have he same problem after including some of the APIS thst uses later Spring (3.x.) versions to the existing project.
My application was started up successfully in one machine but failed on another machine. After investigating carefully we found this,
On the machine it was failing, the PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor was loaded from spring-dao-2.0.8.jar
[Loaded org.springframework.dao.annotation.PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor from file:/lib/spring-dao-2.0.8.jar]
Where as on the other machine it was loaded from spring-tx-3.1.1.RELEASE.jar
[Loaded org.springframework.dao.annotation.PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor from file:/lib/spring-tx-3.1.1.RELEASE.jar]
Then I tried removing the spring-dao-2.0.8.jar from the class-path and tried, it worked.
spring-dao-2.0.8.jar was an unnecessary dependency.
Regards
Lyju