Spring AOP cannot set value NULL

After hours of debugging I figured that indeed the issue was related to the various jar file configurations which was causing the trouble.

I have listed the ideal permutation which might help some one to fix this issue soon.

Ensure that the following are the appropriate versions atleast for SPRING related stuff.

1. aopalliance-1.0.jar
2. asm-3.1.jar
3. asm-attrs-1.5.3.jar
4. aspectjrt-1.6.5.jar
5. aspectjtools-1.6.9.jar
6. aspectjweaver-1.6.5.jar
7. cglib-nodep-2.1_3.jar
8. commons-logging-1.1.1.jar
9. log4j-1.2.16.jar
10. spring-aop-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar
11. spring-asm-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar
12. spring-aspects-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar
13. spring-beans-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar
14. spring-context-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar
15. spring-core-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar
16. spring-expression-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar
17. spring-instrument-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar
18. spring-tx-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar