I’m trying to migrate from Hibernate 4.1.4 to Hibernate 5.1.1. But. I keep getting this error, upon Tomcat startup when Spring tries to instantiate my session factory:

Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.persistence.Table.indexes()[Ljavax/persistence/Index;


I do have the hibernate-jpa-2.1-api-1.0.0.Final.jar file in the lib directory of my web app.


I’m running on Tomcat 8.0.30


Here’s the mix of frameworks that I’m using:

Hibernate 5.1.1

Spring 4.2.5

Struts 2.3.30

Hibernate Validator 5.1.2

You have multiple versions of JPA libraries, that's why you get this error.

Check both the WAR libraries and the Tomcat global libraries for JPA, and you'll find it.

If you're using Maven, just run:

> mvn dependency:tree

and grep for JPA libraries.