Commons-beanutils dependencies

What are the dependencies that have to be added/upgraded together with commons-beanutils(I have upgraded it from 1.8.3 to 1.9.4)and I have already added it's dependencies- commons-collections and commons-logging but I am facing an issue where I get logged out of my application after clicking a field in UI.I have checked the log in jboss and it states null pointer exception.Could someone please help me out with this