Yet another Hibernate question

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My application is trying to use Hibernate annotations. I've gotten the 3.5.0 version of Hibernate installed, but when I try to load my app I get the following exception:

junit.framework.AssertionFailedError: Exception in constructor: testSubscriber (java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/persistence/spi/ProviderUtil
    at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)
    at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Class.java:2389)
    at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Class.java:2699)
    at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:326)
    at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:308)
    at javax.persistence.Persistence.findAllProviders(Persistence.java:79)
    at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:48)
    at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:33)
    at com.upod.dao.SubscriberDAOTest.<init>(SubscriberDAOTest.java:32)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
    at junit.framework.TestSuite.createTest(TestSuite.java:58)
    at junit.framework.TestSuite.addTestMethod(TestSuite.java:280)
    at junit.framework.TestSuite.<init>(TestSuite.java:140)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.junit3.JUnit3TestLoader.getTest(JUnit3TestLoader.java:102)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.junit3.JUnit3TestLoader.loadTests(JUnit3TestLoader.java:59)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:445)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:673)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:386)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:196)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.persistence.spi.ProviderUtil
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:319)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:330)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:254)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:399)
    ... 22 more
)
    at junit.framework.Assert.fail(Assert.java:47)
    at junit.framework.TestSuite$1.runTest(TestSuite.java:90)
    at junit.framework.TestCase.runBare(TestCase.java:130)
    at junit.framework.TestResult$1.protect(TestResult.java:106)
    at junit.framework.TestResult.runProtected(TestResult.java:124)
    at junit.framework.TestResult.run(TestResult.java:109)
    at junit.framework.TestCase.run(TestCase.java:120)
    at junit.framework.TestSuite.runTest(TestSuite.java:230)
    at junit.framework.TestSuite.run(TestSuite.java:225)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.junit3.JUnit3TestReference.run(JUnit3TestReference.java:130)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.TestExecution.run(TestExecution.java:38)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:460)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:673)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:386)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:196)

Apprently, I'm missing something, or I have incompatible jars again, but for the life of me I can't figure out where the problem is. I've got the hibernate3.jar, ejb3-persistence.jar, and all of the dependencies specified in the Hibernate docs, yet I still get this.

Anyone seen this before or have an idea what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks

--Steve

Answer 1

Do you have the correct JPA jar in your classpath? since youre error is: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/persistence/spi/ProviderUtil

EDIT

Y'know, before we go further trying to figure this out, we should ask if it's really necessary to be using 3.5.0 (since at the time of this writing, it's 3.5.0-Beta-2). If all you're looking for is Annotations, using Hibernate Core 3.3.2 is enough to allow you to use Hibernate Annotations 3.4.0.

IMHO, you might want to just back up a version to something "safe"

Answer 2

check here

Answer 3

I don't know what documentation you are referring to as you didn't post any link so I didn't check what it is saying but I think that you you are missing the jpa-api dependency that I can see in the pom.xml of hibernate-parent-3.5.0-Beta-2 (it provides javax.persistence.spi.ProviderUtil):

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.hibernate.java-persistence</groupId>
  <artifactId>jpa-api</artifactId>
  <version>2.0-cr-1</version>
</dependency>

You can get it from the JBoss Maven repository (it doesn't seem to be included in the bundle released on SourceForge). Time to start using maven :)

Answer 4

If you are using Hibernate 3.5.x, you also need the following jar file.

hibernate-jpa-2.0-api-1.0.0-CR-1.jar

I had the same problem and adding this fixed the issue.