ExceptionInInitializerError with Spring Gemfire 1.8.1

Caused by (repeated) ... : org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'csrfService': Injection of resource dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'aws-security-csrf-region': Cannot resolve reference to bean 'awsGemfireCache' while setting bean property 'cache'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'awsGemfireCache': FactoryBean threw exception on object creation; nested exception is java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
	at org.springframework.context.annotation.CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:311)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1214)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:543)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:482)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:306)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:230)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:302)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:202)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.config.ServiceLocatorFactoryBean$ServiceLocatorInvocationHandler.invokeServiceLocatorMethod(ServiceLocatorFactoryBean.java:373)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.config.ServiceLocatorFactoryBean$ServiceLocatorInvocationHandler.invoke(ServiceLocatorFactoryBean.java:363)
	at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy59.getService(Unknown Source)
	at com.filinv.rtl.aws.commons.util.IMDGHelper.getCSRFService(IMDGHelper.java:43)
	at com.filinv.rtl.aws.rest.authentication.UserAuthenticationRestServiceImpl.<init>(UserAuthenticationRestServiceImpl.java:37)
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
	at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526)
	at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:147)
	... 19 more
Caused by: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
	at com.gemstone.gemfire.internal.i18n.AbstractStringIdResourceBundle.initData(AbstractStringIdResourceBundle.java:53)
	at com.gemstone.gemfire.internal.i18n.AbstractStringIdResourceBundle.getBundle(AbstractStringIdResourceBundle.java:141)
	at com.gemstone.gemfire.i18n.StringId.getBundle(StringId.java:77)
	at com.gemstone.gemfire.i18n.StringId.setLocale(StringId.java:63)
	at com.gemstone.gemfire.i18n.StringId.<clinit>(StringId.java:46)
	at com.gemstone.gemfire.internal.i18n.ParentLocalizedStrings.<clinit>(ParentLocalizedStrings.java:21)
	at com.gemstone.gemfire.cache.client.ClientCacheFactory.getAnyInstance(ClientCacheFactory.java:584)
	at org.springframework.data.gemfire.client.ClientCacheFactoryBean.fetchCache(ClientCacheFactoryBean.java:121)
	at org.springframework.data.gemfire.CacheFactoryBean.resolveCache(CacheFactoryBean.java:245)
	at org.springframework.data.gemfire.CacheFactoryBean.init(CacheFactoryBean.java:191)
	at org.springframework.data.gemfire.CacheFactoryBean.getObject(CacheFactoryBean.java:178)
	at org.springframework.data.gemfire.CacheFactoryBean.getObject(CacheFactoryBean.java:88)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.doGetObjectFromFactoryBean(FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.java:168)
	... 56 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
	... 71 more