Exception while creating a HttpSolrClinet

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Hi,

I am getting the following exception while creating a Solr client. Any help
is appreciated

=====This is code snipper to create a SolrClient===============

public void populate (String args) throws IOException, SolrServerException
 {
  String urlString =  "http://localhost:8983/solr";;
   SolrClient  server = new HttpSolrClient.Builder(urlString).build();
..........
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Exception in thread "main" java.lang.VerifyError: Bad return type
Exception Details:
  Location:

org/apache/solr/client/solrj/impl/HttpClientUtil.createClient(Lorg/apache/solr/common/params/SolrParams;)Lorg/apache/http/impl/client/CloseableHttpClient;
@57: areturn
  Reason:
    Type 'org/apache/http/impl/client/SystemDefaultHttpClient' (current
frame, stack[0]) is not assignable to
'org/apache/http/impl/client/CloseableHttpClient' (from method signature)
  Current Frame:
    bci: @57
    flags: { }
    locals: { 'org/apache/solr/common/params/SolrParams',
'org/apache/solr/common/params/ModifiableSolrParams',
'org/apache/http/impl/client/SystemDefaultHttpClient' }
    stack: { 'org/apache/http/impl/client/SystemDefaultHttpClient' }
  Bytecode:
    0x0000000: bb00 0359 2ab7 0004 4cb2 0005 b900 0601
    0x0000010: 0099 001e b200 05bb 0007 59b7 0008 1209
    0x0000020: b600 0a2b b600 0bb6 000c b900 0d02 00b8
    0x0000030: 000e 4d2c 2bb8 000f 2cb0
  Stackmap Table:
    append_frame(@47,Object[#143])

at
org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.HttpSolrClient.<init>(HttpSolrClient.java:209)
at
org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.HttpSolrClient$Builder.build(HttpSolrClient.java:874)
at PDFParseExtract.populate(PDFParseExtract.java:60)
at PDFParseExtract.main(PDFParseExtract.java:53)