Exception NoClassDefFoundError for CacheProvider

Question

I'm kind of new in Spring and hibernate so I'm trying to implement some simple web application based on Spring 3 + hibernate 4 while I start tomcat I have this exception:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/hibernate/cache/CacheProvider
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2427)
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods(Class.java:1791)
    ...
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.hibernate.cache.CacheProvider
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1678)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1523)

I've found that this class was in hibernate-core for hibernate 3 but I've not found it in hibernate 4.

The part of my context.xml for persistence:

<bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource">
    <property name="driverClassName" value="org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver"/>
    <property name="url" value="jdbc:oracle:thin:@IP_Address:SID"/>
    <property name="username" value="xxx"/>
    <property name="password" value="xxx"/>
    <property name="initialSize" value="5"/>
    <property name="maxActive" value="20"/>
</bean>

<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean">
    <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
    <property name="packagesToScan" value="com.huawei.vms.user"/>
    <property name="hibernateProperties">
        <props>
            <prop key="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle10gDialect</prop>
        </props>
    </property>
</bean>

Please help me to figure out why it's trying to load CacheProvider because I dont have any settings for that in context.xml and which jar I have to add in my project. Thanks!

Answer 1

Change your AnnotationSessionFactoryBean to org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean (Hibernate 4) and you'll be good to go. The AnnotationSessionFactoryBean was replaced with the LocalSessionFactoryBean as it does class path scanning now.