I keep getting this error when strating the wl 9.0 server.
Hibernate version: 3.0.5

<Oct 04, 2005 14:47:30> <ERROR> org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader - Context initialization failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'mySessionFactory' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.setMergeAdjacentText(Z)V
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.setMergeAdjacentText(Z)V
at org.hibernate.util.XMLHelper.createSAXReader(XMLHelper.java:38)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.addInputStream(Configuration.java:398)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.addFile(Configuration.java:245)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.addDirectory(Configuration.java:530)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:649)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1003)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:348)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:226)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:147)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:269)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:317)
at org.springframework.web.context.support.AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.java:134)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:230)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:156)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:48)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.EventsManager$FireContextListenerAction.run(EventsManager.java:336)
at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)
at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:121)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.EventsManager.notifyContextCreatedEvent(EventsManager.java:79)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.preloadResources(WebAppServletContext.java:1549)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.start(WebAppServletContext.java:2565)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.startContexts(WebAppModule.java:859)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.start(WebAppModule.java:321)
at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleListenerInvoker.start(ModuleListenerInvoker.java:114)
at weblogic.application.internal.flow.StartModulesFlow.activate(StartModulesFlow.java:28)
at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment$2.next(BaseDeployment.java:635)
at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:26)
at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment.activate(BaseDeployment.java:257)
at weblogic.application.internal.DeploymentStateChecker.activate(DeploymentStateChecker.java:154)
at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.AppContainerInvoker.activate(AppContainerInvoker.java:80)
at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.BasicDeployment.activate(BasicDeployment.java:383)
at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.BasicDeployment.activateFromServerLifecycle(BasicDeployment.java:560)
at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.DeploymentAdapter$1.activate(DeploymentAdapter.java:50)
at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.AppTransition$2.transitionApp(AppTransition.java:30)
at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.ConfiguredDeployments.transitionApps(ConfiguredDeployments.java:232)
at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.ConfiguredDeployments.activate(ConfiguredDeployments.java:168)
at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.ConfiguredDeployments.deploy(ConfiguredDeployments.java:122)
at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.DeploymentServerService.resume(DeploymentServerService.java:166)
at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.DeploymentServerService.start(DeploymentServerService.java:81)
at weblogic.t3.srvr.SubsystemRequest.run(SubsystemRequest.java:64)
at weblogic.work.ServerWorkManagerImpl$WorkAdapterImpl.run(ServerWorkManagerImpl.java:518)
at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:207)
at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:179)
<Oct 4, 2005 2:47:30 PM EDT> <Warning> <HTTP> <BEA-101162> <User defined listener org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener failed: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'mySessionFactory' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.setMergeAdjacentText(Z)V.
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'mySessionFactory' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.setMergeAdjacentText(Z)V
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:355)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:226)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:147)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:269)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:317)
Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.setMergeAdjacentText(Z)V
at org.hibernate.util.XMLHelper.createSAXReader(XMLHelper.java:38)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.addInputStream(Configuration.java:398)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.addFile(Configuration.java:245)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.addDirectory(Configuration.java:530)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:649)
Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace
>
<Oct 4, 2005 2:47:30 PM EDT> <Error> <Deployer> <BEA-149231> <Unable to set the activation state to true for the application '_appsdir_TimeTracking_dir'.
weblogic.management.DeploymentException:
at weblogic.application.internal.flow.StartModulesFlow.activate(StartModulesFlow.java:30)
at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment$2.next(BaseDeployment.java:635)
at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:26)
at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment.activate(BaseDeployment.java:257)
at weblogic.application.internal.DeploymentStateChecker.activate(DeploymentStateChecker.java:154)
Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.setMergeAdjacentText(Z)V
at org.hibernate.util.XMLHelper.createSAXReader(XMLHelper.java:38)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.addInputStream(Configuration.java:398)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.addFile(Configuration.java:245)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.addDirectory(Configuration.java:530)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:649)

Name and version of the database you are using:

The generated SQL (show_sql=true):

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