I'm trying to launch Hibernate2 as an MBean under JBoss. I have Hibernate2.jar in my server/default/lib directory, and the jboss-service.xml in my hibernate.sar is:

<server>
<mbean code="net.sf.hibernate.jmx.HibernateService" name="jboss.jca:service=HibernateFactory,
name=HibernateFactory">
<depends>jboss.jca:service=RARDeployer</depends>
<depends>jboss.jca:service=ConnectionFactoryDeployer</depends>
<!-- Make it deploy ONLY after DataSource had been started -->
<attribute name="MapResources">mappings/TJdoTest.hbm.xml,
mappings/TBundle.hbm.xml,
mappings/TMaterial.hbm.xml</attribute>
<attribute name="JndiName">java:/hibernate/HibernateFactory</attribute>
<attribute name="Datasource">java:jdbc/SybaseDS</attribute>
<attribute name="Dialect">net.sf.hibernate.dialect.SybaseDialect</attribute>
<attribute name="TransactionStrategy">net.sf.hibernate.transaction.JTATransactionFactory</attribute>
<attribute name="TransactionManagerLookupStrategy">net.sf.hibernate.transaction.JBossTransactionManagerLookup</attribute>
<attribute name="UseOuterJoin">false</attribute>
<attribute name="ShowSql">false</attribute>
<attribute name="UserTransactionName">java:/UserTransaction</attribute>
</mbean>
</server>

When I start JBoss, it barfs when trying to deploy my MBean with the following message:

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2003-08-28 09:54:29,701 DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer] create operation failed for package file:/c:/my/project/deploy/hibernate.sar

org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: - nested throwable: (java.lang.reflect.UndeclaredThrowableException)

at org.jboss.system.ServiceConfigurator.install(ServiceConfigurator.java:143)

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The actual cause of the UndeclaredThrowable is:

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Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/sf/hibernate/HibernateException
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Class.java:1590)
at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Class.java:1762)
at java.lang.Class.getConstructor(Class.java:1002)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.instantiate(MBeanServerImpl.java:850)

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So, the SARDeployer is finding net.sf.hibernate.jmx.HibernateService but once it's inside, trying to instantiate that class, it is unable to find net.sf.hibernate.HibernateException, which is in the classpath. I've tried taking hibernate2.jar out of the classpath altogether and the error is different (can't find the HibernateService class) but fully expected.

I'm am flummoxed. Has anyone encountered this before, or gotten Hibernate2 to work with 3.2.2RC2?

Thanks,
Ken

Ken,

I too had some problems getting hibernate deployed as a service under
JBoss 3.2.1. I also (yesterday) deployed StrutsCX and ran into
similar problems.

The issues always involve libraries and where they are/are not found.

There is a doc called "Using Hibernate with JBoss" (http://www.hibernate.org/66/html) that includes a list of libs that
are required for hibernate. Make doubly sure these are available.
I think they should be placed in ...server/default/lib, assuming you
are using the default configuration.

I am not sure exactly how JBoss gets its classpath or finds libs.
Anyway, that's a question for another forum.

Well (and this is why I posted to the newbie forum) it would appear that I had a couple of JARs out of line. Or, more precisely, I had the same (or conflicting) JARs in multiple places. I re-installed JBoss and everything works fine.

Cheers to the Hibernate crew! I'm trying to get it signed off for a standard-setting project at work...