HTTP Status 500 - Handler processing failed; nested exception is java.lang.AbstractMethodError:

spring-mvc bean-validation spring-3 jsr validationerror
Anwesha picture Anwesha · May 12, 2014 · Viewed 10.8k times · Source

Please help me with learning the basics of Spring 3 MVC better, I was trying to learn about Spring JSR 303: Bean Validation and could not solve the below problem at all, I have spent over a day on this already :(

I want a simple validation to work here. The name, password and email fields in hello.jsp can not be left blank, that's quite is the objective. As of now every time the hello.jsp is attempted to be submitted with all the fields as blank the below error is encountered

HTTP Status 500 - Handler processing failed; nested exception is java.lang.AbstractMethodError: org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence.getProviderUtil()Ljavax/persistence/spi/ProviderUtil;

The error stack :

HTTP Status 500 - Handler processing failed; nested exception is java.lang.AbstractMethodError: org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence.getProviderUtil()Ljavax/persistence/spi/ProviderUtil;


type Exception report

message Handler processing failed; nested exception is java.lang.AbstractMethodError: org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence.getProviderUtil()Ljavax/persistence/spi/ProviderUtil;

description The server encountered an internal error (Handler processing failed; nested exception is java.lang.AbstractMethodError: org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence.getProviderUtil()Ljavax/persistence/spi/ProviderUtil;) that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception 

org.springframework.web.util.NestedServletException: Handler processing failed; nested exception is java.lang.AbstractMethodError: org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence.getProviderUtil()Ljavax/persistence/spi/ProviderUtil;
    org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:972)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:852)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:882)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doPost(FrameworkServlet.java:789)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:641)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)


root cause 

java.lang.AbstractMethodError: org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence.getProviderUtil()Ljavax/persistence/spi/ProviderUtil;
    javax.persistence.Persistence$1.isLoaded(Persistence.java:78)
    org.hibernate.validator.engine.resolver.JPATraversableResolver.isReachable(JPATraversableResolver.java:61)
    org.hibernate.validator.engine.resolver.DefaultTraversableResolver.isReachable(DefaultTraversableResolver.java:131)
    org.hibernate.validator.engine.resolver.SingleThreadCachedTraversableResolver.isReachable(SingleThreadCachedTraversableResolver.java:46)
    org.hibernate.validator.engine.ValidatorImpl.isValidationRequired(ValidatorImpl.java:1242)
    org.hibernate.validator.engine.ValidatorImpl.validateConstraint(ValidatorImpl.java:448)
    org.hibernate.validator.engine.ValidatorImpl.validateConstraintsForDefaultGroup(ValidatorImpl.java:397)
    org.hibernate.validator.engine.ValidatorImpl.validateConstraintsForCurrentGroup(ValidatorImpl.java:361)
    org.hibernate.validator.engine.ValidatorImpl.validateInContext(ValidatorImpl.java:313)
    org.hibernate.validator.engine.ValidatorImpl.validate(ValidatorImpl.java:139)
    org.springframework.validation.beanvalidation.SpringValidatorAdapter.validate(SpringValidatorAdapter.java:101)
    org.springframework.validation.DataBinder.validate(DataBinder.java:722)
    org.springframework.web.method.annotation.ModelAttributeMethodProcessor.validateIfApplicable(ModelAttributeMethodProcessor.java:155)
    org.springframework.web.method.annotation.ModelAttributeMethodProcessor.resolveArgument(ModelAttributeMethodProcessor.java:108)
    org.springframework.web.method.support.HandlerMethodArgumentResolverComposite.resolveArgument(HandlerMethodArgumentResolverComposite.java:75)
    org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.getMethodArgumentValues(InvocableHandlerMethod.java:156)
    org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.invokeForRequest(InvocableHandlerMethod.java:117)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.ServletInvocableHandlerMethod.invokeAndHandle(ServletInvocableHandlerMethod.java:96)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.invokeHandlerMethod(RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.java:617)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.handleInternal(RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.java:578)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.AbstractHandlerMethodAdapter.handle(AbstractHandlerMethodAdapter.java:80)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:923)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:852)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:882)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doPost(FrameworkServlet.java:789)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:641)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)

All the jars used are :

  1. antlr-2.7.6.jar
  2. aopalliance-1.0.jar
  3. asm-attrs-1.5.3.jar
  4. cglib-nodep-2.2.2.jar
  5. cglib-nodep-2.2-sources.jar
  6. commons-collections-2.1.jar
  7. commons-dbcp-1.4.jar
  8. commons-logging-1.1.3.jar
  9. dom4j-1.6.1.jar
  10. hibernate-3.2.6.ga.jar
  11. hibernate-annotations-3.3.1.GA.jar
  12. hibernate-commons-annotations-3.0.0.ga.jar
  13. hibernate-entitymanager-3.3.2.GA.jar
  14. hibernate-jpa-2.0-api-1.0.0.Final.jar
  15. hibernate-search-3.0.0.GA.jar
  16. hibernate-validator-4.2.0.Final.jar
  17. hibernate-validator-cdi-5.1.0.Final.jar
  18. hsqldb.jar
  19. java-mail-1.4.4.jar
  20. javax.servlet.jsp.jstl-1.2.1.jar
  21. jsch-0.1.49.jar
  22. jstl-1.2.jar
  23. jta.jar
  24. lucene-core-2.3.2.jar
  25. lucene-highlighter-2.0.0.jar
  26. mysql-connector-java-5.1.21.jar
  27. org.springframework.asm-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar
  28. org.springframework.beans-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar
  29. org.springframework.context.support_3.0.5.RELEASE.jar
  30. org.springframework.context-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar
  31. org.springframework.core-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar
  32. org.springframework.expression-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar
  33. org.springframework.orm-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar
  34. org.springframework.transaction-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar
  35. org.springframework.web.servlet-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar
  36. org.springframework.web-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar
  37. persistence-api-1.0.jar
  38. slf4j-api-1.7.5.jar
  39. slf4j-api-1.7.7.jar
  40. spring-aop-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar
  41. spring-jdbc-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar
  42. spring-tx-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar
  43. validation-api-1.1.0.Final.jar

*The controller : MainController.java *

package com.poc.controller;

import java.util.Map;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.ui.Model;
import org.springframework.validation.BindingResult;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ModelAttribute;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestParam;

import com.poc.bean.UserBean;
import com.poc.service.DaoService;
import com.poc.service.MailService;
import com.poc.service.MailServiceImpl;
import javax.validation.Valid;

@Controller
public class MainController {
@Autowired
DaoService d;
UserBean user;
@Autowired
MailService mailService;
     @RequestMapping("/")
      public String hello(Model model) {
        return "hello";
      }


     @ModelAttribute("user")
     public UserBean getUserForm() {
                 return new UserBean();

         }

      @RequestMapping(value = "/hi", method = RequestMethod.POST)
      public String hi(@ModelAttribute("user")@Valid UserBean user,BindingResult result ) {


          if (result.hasErrors()) {
                return "hello";
            } else {


          d.insert(user);
         //Send a composed mail
          mailService.sendMail(user.getEmailid(), "Registration Acknowledgement", "You have successfully registered with us. Your password is "+user.getPasswd());
          String message = "Hi " + user.getName() + "!";
        //model.addAttribute("message", message);
        return "redirect:/index";}
      }

      @RequestMapping("/index")
        public String listContacts(Map<String, Object> map) {

            map.put("user", new UserBean());
            map.put("userList", d.listAll());

            return "hello";
        }



    }

The hello.jsp

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
    pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<%@taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c"%>
<%@ taglib prefix="form" uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form"%>
<html>
<!-- <style>
.error {
    color: #ff0000;
}

.errorblock {
    color: #000;
    background-color: #ffEEEE;
    border: 3px solid #ff0000;
    padding: 8px;
    margin: 16px;
}
</style> -->

<style>
  .error {
      color: #EF1313;
      font-style: italic;
  }
</style>



<head>
<title>Home</title>
</head>
<body>
  <h1>Hello World!</h1>

<hr/>
  <form:form action="hi" commandName="user">
<table>
<tr>
    <td><font face="verdana" size="2px">Name</font></td>
    <td>:</td>
    <td>
    <font face="verdana" size="2">
    <form:input path="name" /> <form:errors path="name"></form:errors>
    </font>
    </td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><font face="verdana" size="2px">Password</font></td>
    <td>:</td>
    <td>
    <font face="verdana" size="2">
    <form:input path="passwd" /> <form:errors path="passwd"></form:errors>
    </font>
    </td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><font face="verdana" size="2px">Email</font></td>
    <td>:</td>
    <td>
    <font face="verdana" size="2">
    <form:input path="emailid" /> <form:errors path="emailid"></form:errors>
    </font>
    </td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>
    <input type="submit" value="Submit" />
    </td>
</tr>
</table>
</form:form>



  <h3>Users</h3>
  <c:if  test="${!empty userList}">
  <table class = "data"><tr>
  <th>Name</th>
  <th>Email</th>
  </tr>
  <c:forEach items= "${userList}" var = "user">
  <tr>
  <td>
  ${user.name}
  </td>
  <td>${user.emailid}</td>
  </tr>
  </c:forEach>
  </table>
  </c:if>
</body>
</html>

Please let me know about the place where I am certainly missing out something. If it's jar compatibility issue then please mention the names of the jars that I need to replace.

Thanks in advance.

Answer

Gunnar picture Gunnar · May 13, 2014

The versions of your libraries don't really play together. E.g. you use Hibernate ORM 3.2 (which implements JPA 1.0), while Hibernate Validator 4.2 by default works with JPA 2 (which is implemented by Hibernate ORM 3.5). Note that some other libs on your classpath don't look right:

  • Mismatch between Hibernate ORM and JPA API versions
  • Mismatch between Hibernate Validator engine and the CDI portable extension
  • Mismatch between Bean Validation API and Hibernate Validator engine
  • Two different versions of slf4j API

I recommend to work with a dependency management tool (Ivy, Maven, Gradle) to sort these things out.

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