class cast exception

[pulgupta]

I am getting the below error. Can you please suggest something how to resolve the same.

java.lang.ClassCastException: org.owasp.esapi.reference.Log4JLogger cannot be cast to org.owasp.esapi.Logger
at org.owasp.esapi.reference.Log4JLogFactory.getLogger(Log4JLogFactory.java:88)
at org.owasp.esapi.ESAPI.getLogger(ESAPI.java:154)
at org.owasp.esapi.reference.DefaultEncoder.(DefaultEncoder.java:75)
at org.owasp.esapi.reference.DefaultEncoder.getInstance(DefaultEncoder.java:59)
at com.matthewcasperson.validation.ruleimpl.FailIfNotCanonicalizedValidationRule.fixParams(FailIfNotCanonicalizedValidationRule.java:79)
at com.matthewcasperson.validation.rule.ParameterValidationRuleTemplate.processParameter(ParameterValidationRuleTemplate.java:73)
at com.matthewcasperson.validation.filter.ParameterValidationFilter.doFilter(ParameterValidationFilter.java:173)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:246)