Env : Weblogic 12c Clustered
Spring 4.2.5
Hibernate 5.1.0.Final

java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.hibernate.engine.transaction.jta.platform.internal.AbstractJtaPlatform.jndiService(AbstractJtaPlatform.java:46)
at org.hibernate.engine.transaction.jta.platform.internal.WeblogicJtaPlatform.locateTransactionManager(WeblogicJtaPlatform.java:24)
at org.hibernate.engine.transaction.jta.platform.internal.AbstractJtaPlatform.retrieveTransactionManager(AbstractJtaPlatform.java:92)
at org.hibernate.engine.transaction.jta.platform.internal.AbstractJtaPlatform.getTransactionManager(AbstractJtaPlatform.java:98)
at org.hibernate.engine.transaction.jta.platform.internal.TransactionManagerBasedSynchronizationStrategy.canRegisterSynchronization(TransactionManagerBasedSynchronizationStrategy.java:39)
at org.hibernate.engine.transaction.jta.platform.internal.AbstractJtaPlatform.canRegisterSynchronization(AbstractJtaPlatform.java:131)
at org.hibernate.resource.transaction.backend.jta.internal.JtaTransactionCoordinatorImpl.pulse(JtaTransactionCoordinatorImpl.java:141)
at org.hibernate.resource.transaction.backend.jta.internal.JtaTransactionCoordinatorImpl.<init>(JtaTransactionCoordinatorImpl.java:92)
at org.hibernate.resource.transaction.backend.jta.internal.JtaTransactionCoordinatorBuilderImpl.buildTransactionCoordinator(JtaTransactionCoordinatorBuilderImpl.java:28)
at org.hibernate.internal.SessionImpl.<init>(SessionImpl.java:277)
at org.hibernate.internal.SessionFactoryImpl$SessionBuilderImpl.openSession(SessionFactoryImpl.java:1322)
at org.hibernate.jpa.internal.EntityManagerImpl.internalGetSession(EntityManagerImpl.java:133)
at org.hibernate.jpa.spi.AbstractEntityManagerImpl.postInit(AbstractEntityManagerImpl.java:174)
at org.hibernate.jpa.internal.EntityManagerImpl.<init>(EntityManagerImpl.java:83)
at org.hibernate.jpa.internal.EntityManagerFactoryImpl.internalCreateEntityManager(EntityManagerFactoryImpl.java:319)
at org.hibernate.jpa.internal.EntityManagerFactoryImpl.createEntityManager(EntityManagerFactoryImpl.java:286)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor726.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at org.springframework.orm.jpa.AbstractEntityManagerFactoryBean.invokeProxyMethod(AbstractEntityManagerFactoryBean.java:407)
at org.springframework.orm.jpa.AbstractEntityManagerFactoryBean$ManagedEntityManagerFactoryInvocationHandler.invoke(AbstractEntityManagerFactoryBean.java:560)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy892.createEntityManager(Unknown Source)
at org.springframework.orm.jpa.EntityManagerFactoryUtils.doGetTransactionalEntityManager(EntityManagerFactoryUtils.java:285)
at org.springframework.orm.jpa.SharedEntityManagerCreator$SharedEntityManagerInvocationHandler.invoke(SharedEntityManagerCreator.java:255)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy895.createQuery(Unknown Source)
at

JPA specific config :-

<bean id="entityManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
<property name="packagesToScan">
<list>
<value>xx.xx</value>
<value>xx.xx</value>
</list>
</property>

<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSourceXA" />
<property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
<bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter">
<property name="showSql" value="false" />
<property name="generateDdl" value="false" />
<property name="database" value="ORACLE" />
<property name="databasePlatform" value="org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle10gDialect" />
</bean>
</property>

<!-- configure Hibernate -->
<property name="jpaPropertyMap">
<map>
<entry key="javax.persistence.transactionType" value="jta" />
<entry key="hibernate.transaction.jta.platform" value="org.hibernate.service.jta.platform.internal.WeblogicJtaPlatform" />
<entry key="hibernate.event.merge.entity_copy_observer" value="allow" />

<entry key="hibernate.transaction.factory_class" value="org.hibernate.ejb.transaction.JoinableCMTTransactionFactory" />
<entry key="hibernate.transaction.manager_lookup_class" value="org.hibernate.transaction.WeblogicTransactionManagerLookup" />
<entry key="hibernate.current_session_context_class" value="org.hibernate.context.JTASessionContext" />
<entry key="hibernate.bytecode.use_reflection_optimizer" value="true" />

<entry key="hibernate.order_updates" value="true" />
<entry key="hibernate.generate_statistics" value="true" />
<entry key="hibernate.ejb.session_factory_observer" value="xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.hibernate.listeners.SessionFactoryMonitor" />
</map>
</property>
</bean>

Hibernate 5.1 source code where error is coming :-

protected JndiService More ...jndiService() {
return serviceRegistry().getService( JndiService.class );
}

Either serviceRegistry() returning null or call to getService encountering NPE and it is rethrowing , any help appreciated.

These settings are no longer needed:



since you have:



You might want to remove this property too since it's not probably going to buy you anything:



If you use Spring, you don't need this setting too:



I see that you already set the DataSource is Spring:



Make sure that the JNDI Context is available and you have access to the Weblogic TransactionManager which is located via JNDI.

Maybe the default naming used by Weblogic TransactionManager don't work for you and you need to supply the "userTransaction"/"userTransactionName" and "transactionManager"/"transactionManagerName" as well. Check the Weblogic TransactionManager documentation for that.

Thanks for your response. I am not sure if I mentioned before NPE in JndiService intermittently happening i.e. subsequent txns retries are succeeding. Can you plz throw some light about possible cause?

BTW : We recently upgraded from hibernate 3.6.10.Final [everything was working before]

While I was waiting for a response for my issue tried some changes to jpa properties but still getting intermittently NPE on jndiService and subsequent txn retries are working. WLS retries are configured 30 sec apart and number of retries are configured 4.

Below is the config :-

<bean id="entityManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
<property name="packagesToScan">
<list>
<value>xx.xx</value>
<value>xx.xx</value>
</list>
</property>

<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSourceXA" />
<property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
<bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter">
<property name="showSql" value="false" />
<property name="generateDdl" value="false" />
<property name="database" value="ORACLE" />
<property name="databasePlatform" value="org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle10gDialect" />
</bean>
</property>

<!-- configure Hibernate -->
<property name="jpaPropertyMap">
<map>
<entry key="javax.persistence.transactionType" value="jta" />
<entry key="hibernate.transaction.jta.platform" value="org.hibernate.service.jta.platform.internal.WeblogicJtaPlatform" />
<entry key="hibernate.event.merge.entity_copy_observer" value="allow" />
<entry key="hibernate.transaction.factory_class" value="org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransactionFactory" />
<entry key="hibernate.jta.cacheTransactionManager" value="true" />
<entry key="hibernate.current_session_context_class" value="org.hibernate.context.JTASessionContext" />
<entry key="hibernate.bytecode.use_reflection_optimizer" value="true" />
<entry key="hibernate.order_updates" value="true" />
<entry key="hibernate.generate_statistics" value="true" />
<entry key="hibernate.ejb.session_factory_observer" value="xx.xx.xx.xx.hibernate.listeners.SessionFactoryMonitor" />
</map>
</property>
</bean>

<!-- StatisticsService is deprecated and is no longer supported, see HHH-6190 -->
<bean id="mbeanServer" class="org.springframework.jmx.support.MBeanServerFactoryBean">
<property name="locateExistingServerIfPossible" value="true" />
</bean>

<bean id="hibernateStatisticsFactoryBean" class="xx.xx.xx.xx.HibernateStatisticsFactoryBean">
<property name="sessionFactory" value="#{entityManagerFactory.sessionFactory}" />
</bean>

<bean id="jmxExporter" class="org.springframework.jmx.export.MBeanExporter"
lazy-init="false">
<property name="server" ref="mbeanServer" />
<property name="registrationBehaviorName" value="REGISTRATION_REPLACE_EXISTING" />
<property name="beans">
<map>
<entry key="hibernate:type=hibernateStatistics" value-ref="hibernateStatisticsFactoryBean" />
</map>
</property>
</bean>

<bean id="dataSourceXA" class="org.springframework.jndi.JndiObjectFactoryBean">
<property name="resourceRef">
<value>false</value>
</property>
<property name="jndiName">
<value>#{systemProperties['DSName']}</value>
</property>
</bean>

<bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jndi.JndiObjectFactoryBean">
<property name="resourceRef">
<value>false</value>
</property>
<property name="jndiName">
<value>OracleDataSource</value>
</property>
</bean>

<bean id="transactionManager"
class="org.springframework.transaction.jta.WebLogicJtaTransactionManager"
autowire="default">
<property name="transactionManagerName" value="javax.transaction.TransactionManager" />
</bean>

<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" />
</beans>

Any inputs?

It's hard to tell just by looking on configs. A good old debug should do the trick.