Posted the below on springforum, but have found out that the class is part of the full hibernate distribution. Though I can't find it as part of any "small" jar through maven. Anyone got a clue as to where it may be lurking ?
I'm trying to setup the environment to run spring and hibernate on a WAS server, using annotations on the EntityClasses (not planning to use persistance just yet). But have run in to an error ( java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.hibernate.annotations.common.reflection.MetadataProvider ) which I can't seem to find out how to resolve. As far as I can find out "MetadataProvider" isn't defined in the hibernate-commons-annotations jar. Nor can I figure out which jar it is in or why Springframework depends on it ....
Any help would be greatly appreciated :)
My environment is:
- WAS 6.1.019
- hibernate 3.5.1-Final (core and annotations)
- hibernate-commons-annotations3.3.0.ga
- spring 3.0.2.RELEASE (beans, context, core, orm, tx among others)
snippet from applicationContext.xml:
Code:
<!-- DefaultLobHandler -->
<bean id="defaultLobHandler" class="org.springframework.jdbc.support.lob.OracleLobHandler">
<property name="nativeJdbcExtractor">
<ref local="nativeJdbcExtractor"/>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="nativeJdbcExtractor" class="org.springframework.jdbc.support.nativejdbc.WebSphereNativeJdbcExtractor"/>
<!-- Datasources -->
<bean id="odbDataSource" class="org.springframework.jndi.JndiObjectFactoryBean">
<property name="jndiName">
<value>jdbc/db1</value>
</property>
<property name="resourceRef">
<value>true</value>
</property>
</bean>
<!-- SessionFactory -->
<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="odbDataSource" />
<property name="lobHandler" ref="defaultLobHandler" />
<property name="annotatedClasses">
<list>
<value>no.domain.hibernate.Entity1</value>
</list>
</property>
<property name="hibernateProperties">
<props>
<!-- for DEBUG -->
<prop key="hibernate.show_sql">false</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.format_sql">false</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.generate_statistics">false</prop>
<!-- Database Settings -->
<prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle10gDialect</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.max_fetch_depth">3</prop>
<!-- JDBC Settings -->
<prop key="hibernate.jdbc.use_streams_for_binary">true</prop>
<!-- Cache settings -->
<prop key="hibernate.cache.provider_class">org.hibernate.cache.HashtableCacheProvider</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.cache.use_minimal_puts">true</prop>
<!-- Transaction settings -->
<prop key="hibernate.transaction.factory_class">org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransactionFactory</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.transaction.manager_lookup_class">org.hibernate.transaction.WebSphereExtendedJTATransactionLookup</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
snippet from log:
Code:
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Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'sessionFactory' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.hibernate.annotations.common.reflection.MetadataProvider
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1412)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:519)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:456)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:291)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:288)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:190)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:322)
... 79 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.hibernate.annotations.common.reflection.MetadataProvider
at java.lang.J9VMInternals.verifyImpl(Native Method)
at java.lang.J9VMInternals.verify(J9VMInternals.java:68)
at java.lang.J9VMInternals.initialize(J9VMInternals.java:129)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:67)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:522)
at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:126)
at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:104)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean.newConfiguration(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:813)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean.buildSessionFactory(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:549)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.AbstractSessionFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(AbstractSessionFactoryBean.java:211)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1469)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1409)
... 86 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.hibernate.annotations.common.reflection.MetadataProvider
at com.ibm.ws.classloader.CompoundClassLoader.findClass(CompoundClassLoader.java:479)
at com.ibm.ws.classloader.CompoundClassLoader.loadClass(CompoundClassLoader.java:380)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:597)
... 100 more