Failure after upgrade from 1.7 to 1.8

m <[email protected]> Wed, 20 May 2015 10:51:14 -0500

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When I upgrade from 1.7 to 1.8, I get the following failure during testing. 

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/w3c/dom/ElementTraversal


I have tried adding each of the 1.8 libraries, the fop lib, and the xmlgraphics-commons libs as available from maven here.
http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.xmlgraphics

Nothing seems to address this error.
Is there a solution to this?