Hello, This is my third day on this issue, I tried to use the annotations support in the hibernate validator for my project but after following tutorials, on running my application I kept on getting an exception: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError. Below is my stacktrace

exception

org.springframework.web.util.NestedServletException: Handler processing failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.persistence.Persistence.getPersistenceUtil()Ljavax/persistence/PersistenceUtil;
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:820)
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:716)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:644)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doPost(FrameworkServlet.java:560)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:637)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
org.netbeans.modules.web.monitor.server.MonitorFilter.doFilter(MonitorFilter.java:393)

Root Cause

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.persistence.Persistence.getPersistenceUtil()Ljavax/persistence/PersistenceUtil;
org.hibernate.validator.engine.resolver.JPATraversableResolver.isReachable(JPATraversableResolver.java:33)
org.hibernate.validator.engine.resolver.DefaultTraversableResolver.isReachable(DefaultTraversableResolver.java:112)
org.hibernate.validator.engine.resolver.SingleThreadCachedTraversableResolver.isReachable(SingleThreadCachedTraversableResolver.java:47)
org.hibernate.validator.engine.ValidatorImpl.isValidationRequired(ValidatorImpl.java:761)
org.hibernate.validator.engine.ValidatorImpl.validateConstraint(ValidatorImpl.java:331)
org.hibernate.validator.engine.ValidatorImpl.validateConstraintsForRedefinedDefaultGroup(ValidatorImpl.java:278)
org.hibernate.validator.engine.ValidatorImpl.validateConstraintsForCurrentGroup(ValidatorImpl.java:260)
org.hibernate.validator.engine.ValidatorImpl.validateInContext(ValidatorImpl.java:213)
org.hibernate.validator.engine.ValidatorImpl.validate(ValidatorImpl.java:119)
org.springframework.validation.beanvalidation.SpringValidatorAdapter.validate(SpringValidatorAdapter.java:74)
org.springframework.validation.DataBinder.validate(DataBinder.java:692)
org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.support.HandlerMethodInvoker.doBind(HandlerMethodInvoker.java:797)
org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.support.HandlerMethodInvoker.resolveHandlerArguments(HandlerMethodInvoker.java:349)
org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.support.HandlerMethodInvoker.invokeHandlerMethod(HandlerMethodInvoker.java:169)
org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.invokeHandlerMethod(AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.java:421)
org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.handle(AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.java:409)
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:771)
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:716)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:644)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doPost(FrameworkServlet.java:560)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:637)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
org.netbeans.modules.web.monitor.server.MonitorFilter.doFilter(MonitorFilter.java:393)

I am using spring 3 and hibernate 3.2.5 with jdk 1.6.0_14 and hibernate-validator-4.1.0.Final and netbeans 6.9

Listed below are libraries in my classpath


antlr-2.7.6.jar
asm-attrs.jar
asm.jar
cglib-2.1.3.jar
cglib-2.2.jar
commons-collections-2.1.1.jar
commons-logging-1.1.jar
dom4j-1.6.1.jar
ehcache-1.2.3.jar
ejb3-persistence.jar
hibernate-annotations.jar
hibernate-commons-annotations.jar
hibernate-entitymanager.jar
hibernate-jpa-2.0-api-1.0.0.Final.jar
hibernate-tools.jar
hibernate-validator-4.1.0.Final.jar
hibernate3.jar
javaee-api-6.0.jar
javassist.jar
jdbc2_0-stdext.jar
jstl.jar
jta.jar
log4j-1.2.14.jar
slf4j-api-1.5.6.jar
slf4j-log4j12-1.5.6.jar
spring-aop-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-asm-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-aspects-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-beans-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-context-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-context-support-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-core-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-expression-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-instrument-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-instrument-tomcat-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-jdbc-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-jms-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-orm-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-oxm-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-struts-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-test-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-tx-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-web-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-webmvc-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-webmvc-portlet-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
standard.jar
validation-api-1.0.0.GA.jar

Please I will appreciate if I can get a solution to my problem

hibernate 3.2.5 is not compatible with jpa-2, upgrade to hibernate 3.5.x (latest is 3.5.4 at this time)

you're mixing dependencies from several uncompatible versions.

Thank you very much for response, however the problem still persist after I upgraded hibernate to version 3.5.4

This how my controller looks

@Controller
@RequestMapping("/form.htm")
public class FormTestController {

@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String get(final ModelMap model) {

UserForm userForm = new UserForm();
model.addAttribute("userForm", userForm);
return "form";
}

@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.POST)
public String post(final ModelMap model, @Valid final UserForm userForm,
final BindingResult result) {

if (result.hasErrors()) {
return "form";
}

return "success";
}
}

My entity class looks like this

public class UserForm {

@NotEmpty
@Size(max = 20)
private String name;
@NotEmpty
@Email
private String email;

public String getEmail() {
return email;
}

public void setEmail(String email) {
this.email = email;
}

public String getName() {
return name;
}

public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
}


and libraries in my classpath after I upgraded to hibernate 3.5.4 looks like this

antlr-2.7.6.jar
asm-attrs.jar
asm.jar
cglib-2.1.3.jar
cglib-2.2.jar
commons-collections-2.1.1.jar
commons-collections-3.1.jar
commons-logging-1.1.jar
dom4j-1.6.1.jar
ehcache-1.2.3.jar
ejb3-persistence.jar
hibernate-annotations.jar
hibernate-commons-annotations.jar
hibernate-entitymanager.jar
hibernate-jpa-2.0-api-1.0.0.Final.jar
hibernate-testing.jar
hibernate-tools.jar
hibernate-validator-4.1.0.Final.jar
hibernate3.jar
javaee-api-6.0.jar
javassist-3.9.0.GA.jar
javassist.jar
jdbc2_0-stdext.jar
jstl.jar
jta-1.1.jar
jta.jar
log4j-1.2.14.jar
slf4j-api-1.5.6.jar
slf4j-api-1.5.8.jar
slf4j-log4j12-1.5.6.jar
spring-aop-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-asm-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-aspects-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-beans-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-context-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-context-support-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-core-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-expression-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-instrument-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-instrument-tomcat-3.0.2.RELEASE.ja
r
spring-jdbc-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-jms-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-orm-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-oxm-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-struts-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-test-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-tx-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-web-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-webmvc-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-webmvc-portlet-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
standard.jar
validation-api-1.0.0.GA.jar

I hope I can get the validator to work for my project

Hi,

We faced the similar error, it turned out JDK 1.5 does not have the enhanced persistance method which HA is looking for.
Please check once again your environment(devel/deploy) is pointing to JDK 1.6.

~rohit.