I wanted to upgrade to Hibernate 5 but I can't get it to work for some weird reason.
My spring context configuration with Hibernate 4 looks like this:
....
<bean id="sessionFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<property name="annotatedClasses" ref="hibernateClasses" />
<property name="hibernateProperties">
<props>
<prop key="hibernate.dialect">
${hibernate.dialect}
</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.show_sql">
${hibernate.show_sql}
</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.format_sql">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.generate_statistics">
${hibernate.generate_statistics}
</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">
${hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto}
</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="transactionManager"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
</bean>
....
I left out the datasource and the hibernateClasses beans definition.
For Hibernate 5 I changed the package name to hibernate5 like this:
....
<bean id="sessionFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate5.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<property name="annotatedClasses" ref="hibernateClasses" />
<property name="hibernateProperties">
<props>
<prop key="hibernate.dialect">
${hibernate.dialect}
</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.show_sql">
${hibernate.show_sql}
</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.format_sql">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.generate_statistics">
${hibernate.generate_statistics}
</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">
${hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto}
</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="transactionManager"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate5.HibernateTransactionManager">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
</bean>
....
when I run my tests the application context fails to start up because it cannot find the LocalSessionFactoryBean class :-S. This class resides in spring-orm JAR and is actually present but for some reason it cannot be found and throws the following exception:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.springframework.orm.hibernate5.LocalSessionFactoryBuilder
My Maven dependencies are as follows:
<!-- Servlet API -->
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>${servlet-api.version}</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- Spring libraries -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-jdbc</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-aspects</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Hibernate -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
<version>${hibernate.version}</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>cglib</groupId>
<artifactId>cglib</artifactId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<groupId>asm</groupId>
<artifactId>asm</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
<version>${slf4j.version}</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
<version>${slf4j.version}</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- Test -->
<dependency>
<groupId>cglib</groupId>
<artifactId>cglib</artifactId>
<version>${cglib.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>asm</groupId>
<artifactId>asm</artifactId>
<version>${asm.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>${junit.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-mock</artifactId>
<version>${spring-mock.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.easymock</groupId>
<artifactId>easymock</artifactId>
<version>${easymock.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hsqldb</groupId>
<artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId>
<version>${hsqldb.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
Does anybody have an idea what I am doing wrong?
May be you should add
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.transaction</groupId>
<artifactId>jta</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
</dependency>
I had the same issue, and my initial logs complained about,
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/transaction/SystemException