From 37f4f43726d1f7f4c2a7d6e192a1fa96d0efd810 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Juergen Hoeller <jhoeller@pivotal.io>
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 19:13:00 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Consistent 4.x style NoClassDefFoundError handling

Issue: SPR-14883
---
 .../annotation/AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java      | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/annotation/AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java b/spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/annotation/AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java
index fe4d2202a9..a21c0f899e 100644
--- a/spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/annotation/AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java
+++ b/spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/annotation/AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java
@@ -265,6 +265,10 @@ public class AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor extends InstantiationAwareBean
 			catch (IllegalStateException ex) {
 				throw new BeanCreationException(beanName, "Lookup method resolution failed", ex);
 			}
+			catch (NoClassDefFoundError err) {
+				throw new BeanCreationException(beanName, "Failed to introspect bean class [" + beanClass.getName() +
+						"] for lookup method metadata: could not find class that it depends on", err);
+			}
 			this.lookupMethodsChecked.add(beanName);
 		}