oracle hibernate + maven dependenciesm dbcp.basicdatasource exception

Question

I'm trying to create a web application using maven, tomcat and hibernate. Now I'm getting a cannot find class for org.appache.commons.dbcp.basicdatasource for bean with name datasource... exception.

Without the hibernate aspects it works fine, but if I add

<bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource">
    <property name="driverClassName" value="oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver"/>
    <property name="url" value="jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:xe"/>
    <property name="username" value="temp"/>
    <property name="password" value="temp"/>
</bean> 

<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
    <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
    <property name="hibernateProperties">
        <props>
            <prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle10gDialect</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">create</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
        </props>
    </property>
    <property name="mappingResources">
        <list>
        </list>
    </property>
</bean> 

to my applicationContext then I get the error.

What I did was:

• add org.hibernate to my pom
• put ojdbc16.jar in my tomcat bin folder
• add the above snippet to my applicationContext.xml

I use a bat file to compile my project (using maven), copy it to my tomcat webapp folder and to start the server.

Any input on what I'm doing wrong is welcome.

Answer 1

You're very likely missing the dependency for Commons DBCP:

<dependency>
  <groupId>commons-dbcp</groupId>
  <artifactId>commons-dbcp</artifactId>
  <version>1.4</version>
</dependency>