title: Websphere 8.5 with Spring-5
body: <p>Is Websphere 8.5.5 compatible with Spring 5? The Validation API referenced in spring5 (validation-api 5) is resulting in MethodNotFound exception.. Any pointers/patch available to get this solved - short of upgrading to Websphere 9?</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:
    javax/validation/Configuration.getDefaultParameterNameProvider()Ljavax/validation/ParameterNameProvider;
    (loaded from
    file:/opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/plugins/javax.j2ee.validation.jar by
    org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.DefaultClassLoader@25d460de)
    called from class
    org.springframework.validation.beanvalidation.LocalValidatorFactoryBean
    (loaded from file:../spring-context-5.0.2.RELEASE.jar by 
    com.ibm.ws.classloader.CompoundClassLoader@1c7dbdd9</p>
  </blockquote>