Hibernate fails with NullPointerException in EntityTuplizerFactory.constructTuplizer? Why?

Question

I have a problem when I try to instantiate Hibernate and connect with a MySQL database (see error message below).

Curiously enough the connection works fine using the exact same hibernate.cfg.xml file when running Junit tests but it refuses to work when run from Tomcat...

I am starting to run out of ideas.

Any clues or tip where to look?

Caused by: org.hibernate.HibernateException: Unable to instantiate default tuplizer [org.hibernate.tuple.entity.DynamicMapEntityTuplizer] at org.hibernate.tuple.entity.EntityTuplizerFactory.constructTuplizer(EntityTuplizerFactory.java:110) at org.hibernate.tuple.entity.EntityTuplizerFactory.constructDefaultTuplizer(EntityTuplizerFactory.java:135) at org.hibernate.tuple.entity.EntityEntityModeToTuplizerMapping.(EntityEntityModeToTuplizerMapping.java:69) at org.hibernate.tuple.entity.EntityMetamodel.(EntityMetamodel.java:323) at org.hibernate.persister.entity.AbstractEntityPersister.(AbstractEntityPersister.java:456) at org.hibernate.persister.entity.SingleTableEntityPersister.(SingleTableEntityPersister.java:131) at org.hibernate.persister.PersisterFactory.createClassPersister(PersisterFactory.java:84) at org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl.(SessionFactoryImpl.java:267) at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1341) at se.fmt.atlantism.util.HibernateUtil.buildSessionFactory(HibernateUtil.java:16) ... 38 more Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.hibernate.tuple.entity.EntityTuplizerFactory.constructTuplizer(EntityTuplizerFactory.java:107) ... 47 more

Answer 1

Were you able to solve this please?
I'm facing the same issue. Under Jetty (Google Eclipse plug-in) Hibernate works. When I publish & run my application under Tomcat (or redirect Tomcat's docBase to GWT-project directory) I get this error.
I'm experiencing this error only under Linux, under Windows it works just fine.

Answer 2

This is how the Tomcat daemon process looks:
root 2605 0.0 0.0 16584 376 ? Ss 15:39 0:00 /usr/bin/jsvc -user tomcat6 -cp /usr/share/java/commons-daemon.jar:/usr/share/tomcat6/bin/bootstrap.jar -outfile SYSLOG -errfile SYSLOG -pidfile /var/run/tomcat6.pid -Djava.awt.headless=true -Xmx128M -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/share/tomcat6/endorsed -Dcatalina.base=/var/lib/tomcat6 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/share/tomcat6 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/tmp/tomcat6-temp -Djava.security.manager -Djava.security.policy=/var/lib/tomcat6/work/catalina.policy -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/var/lib/tomcat6/conf/logging.properties org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap

This is how the Tomcat process looks when run from within Eclipse using the Sysdeo Tomcat launcher plugin:
(this one actually works)
jzaruba 2655 19.7 4.5 358304 46152 ? Sl 15:43 0:01 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.15/bin/java -agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,suspend=y,address=localhost:37377 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/share/tomcat6 -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/share/tomcat6/endorsed -Dcatalina.base=/var/lib/tomcat6 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/lib/tomcat6/temp -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -classpath /usr/share/tomcat6/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.15/lib/tools.jar org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start

The working one (Eclipse launched) is run using java-6-sun-1.6.0.15, I'm Windows user so I don't know how to tell which JRE is used for /usr/lib/jsvc (looking at it though), but my guess would be it is some OpenJDK... Could this be the difference?

update: jsvc probably uses the same JRE Sysdeo Tomcat launcher does

Answer 3

I'm writing this for future Googlers and reference.

I've done some more research and the root source of the problem is still not known. However the following article throw me on the right track.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/linux/installing-tomcat-6-on-ubuntu/

It seems like the Tomcat (version 6 at least) packages available in Ubuntu (and Debian) are not working correctly. Instead I installed Tomcat using the following guide:

http://www.ctrip.ufl.edu/tomcat6-debian-lenny-howto

While this might not be the premium choice of installation it seems necessary to get Tomcat version 6 running without problems on Ubuntu and/or Debian Lenny.

Answer 4

In my case, this error was resolved by switching the <dependency/> order in my pom.xml. When hibernate (3.2.7.ga) comes before hibernate-annotations (3.4.0.GA) this error occurs. The other way around, it works fine. This is the case even with scope=compile.

I would guess that you need to tweak your classpath, except that (assuming you've dropped both jars in WEB-INF/lib) it should alpha-sort in the correct order. But maybe this will give someone a hint on how to move forward.

Answer 5

In my case it was a simple mistake - the config file *.hbm.xml had a property that the mapped object didnt have! I also heard of cases of that error apearing when you misspell a get/set function - very similar to my case.

Answer 6

I was facing the same problem. It went away after I downloaded "javassist.jar" and put it in the classpath: http://www.java2s.com/Code/Jar/JKL/Downloadjavassistjar.htm