compatibility of spring 4.0.0 with hibernate 4.30 [duplicate]

Question

I am using Spring 4.0.0 RELEASE jars, hibernate-coe 4.3.0 jar in my spring + hibernate project. I am facing an error with org.hibernate.engine.FilterDefinition is not found. Actually in old hibernate core jars, we are having this class but not in 4.3.0 version. In fact we are having org.hibernate.engine.spi.FilterDefinition in 4.3.0 version. But I am not sure how this class is dependent in run time. Mean while I am using glassfish server to my application.

Please let me know the compatibility of spring 4.0.0 and hibernate 4.3.0 versions and suggest me the latest compatible versions of these two.

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My code is: dispatcher-servlet is having

<bean id="hibernateTransactionManager"       class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager">     <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" /> </bean> <bean id="sessionFactory"       class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean">     <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />     <property name="annotatedClasses">         <list>             <value>com.venkat.homeapp.entity.CustomerEntity</value>         </list>     </property>     <property name="hibernateProperties">         <props>             <prop key="hibernate.dialect">${hibernate.dialect}</prop>             <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">${hibernate.show_sql}</prop>         </props>     </property> </bean> <bean id="dataSource"       class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">     <property name="driverClassName" value="${database.driver}" />     <property name="url" value="${database.url}" />     <property name="username" value="${database.user}" />     <property name="password" value="${database.password}" /> </bean> 

My controller class is:

@Controller @RequestMapping("/") @ComponentScan("com.venkat.homeapp.service") public class HomeAppController {  @Autowired private CustomerService customerService; : : } 

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The log which I can see is:

INFO:   WebModule[null] ServletContext.log():No Spring WebApplicationInitializer types detected on classpath INFO:   WebModule[null] ServletContext.log():Initializing Spring FrameworkServlet 'HomeApp' INFO:   FrameworkServlet 'HomeApp': initialization started INFO:   Refreshing WebApplicationContext for namespace 'HomeApp-servlet': startup date [Mon Jan 20 23:42:45 IST 2014]; root of context hierarchy INFO:   Loading XML bean definitions from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/HomeApp-servlet.xml] INFO:   Loading properties file from class path resource [jdbc.properties] INFO:   JSR-330 'javax.inject.Inject' annotation found and supported for autowiring SEVERE:   Context initialization failed org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'homeAppController': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: private com.venkat.homeapp.service.CustomerService com.venkat.homeapp.controller.HomeAppController.customerService; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'customerService': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: private com.venkat.homeapp.dao.CustomerDAO com.venkat.homeapp.service.impl.CustomerServiceImpl.customerDAO; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'customerDAO': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: private org.hibernate.SessionFactory com.venkat.homeapp.dao.impl.CustomerDAOImpl.sessionFactory; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: [Lorg/hibernate/engine/FilterDefinition;     at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:292)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1185)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:537)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:475)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:304)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:228)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:300)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:195)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:700)     at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:760)     at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:482)     at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:643)     at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:606)     at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:657)     at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:525)     at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initServletBean(FrameworkServlet.java:466)     at org.springframework.web.servlet.HttpServletBean.init(HttpServletBean.java:136)     at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:244)     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.initServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1583)     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:1382)     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:5670)     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:5912)     at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebModule.start(WebModule.java:691)     at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:1041)     at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:1024)     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:747)     at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebContainer.loadWebModule(WebContainer.java:2278)     at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebContainer.loadWebModule(WebContainer.java:1924)     at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebApplication.start(WebApplication.java:139)     at org.glassfish.internal.data.EngineRef.start(EngineRef.java:122)     at org.glassfish.internal.data.ModuleInfo.start(ModuleInfo.java:291)     at org.glassfish.internal.data.ApplicationInfo.start(ApplicationInfo.java:352)     at com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLifecycle.deploy(ApplicationLifecycle.java:497)     at com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLifecycle.deploy(ApplicationLifecycle.java:219)     at org.glassfish.deployment.admin.DeployCommand.execute(DeployCommand.java:491)     at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$2$1.run(CommandRunnerImpl.java:527)     at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$2$1.run(CommandRunnerImpl.java:523)     at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)     at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:356)     at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$2.execute(CommandRunnerImpl.java:522)     at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl.doCommand(CommandRunnerImpl.java:546)     at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl.doCommand(CommandRunnerImpl.java:1423)     at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl.access$1500(CommandRunnerImpl.java:108)     at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$ExecutionContext.execute(CommandRunnerImpl.java:1762)     at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$ExecutionContext.execute(CommandRunnerImpl.java:1674)     at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.AdminAdapter.doCommand(AdminAdapter.java:534)     at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.AdminAdapter.onMissingResource(AdminAdapter.java:224)     at org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.StaticHttpHandler.service(StaticHttpHandler.java:297)     at com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.ContainerMapper.service(ContainerMapper.java:246)     at org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.HttpHandler.runService(HttpHandler.java:191)     at org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.HttpHandler.doHandle(HttpHandler.java:168)     at org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.HttpServerFilter.handleRead(HttpServerFilter.java:189)     at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.ExecutorResolver$9.execute(ExecutorResolver.java:119)     at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.executeFilter(DefaultFilterChain.java:288)     at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.executeChainPart(DefaultFilterChain.java:206)     at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.execute(DefaultFilterChain.java:136)     at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.process(DefaultFilterChain.java:114)     at org.glassfish.grizzly.ProcessorExecutor.execute(ProcessorExecutor.java:77)     at org.glassfish.grizzly.nio.transport.TCPNIOTransport.fireIOEvent(TCPNIOTransport.java:838)     at org.glassfish.grizzly.strategies.AbstractIOStrategy.fireIOEvent(AbstractIOStrategy.java:113)     at org.glassfish.grizzly.strategies.WorkerThreadIOStrategy.run0(WorkerThreadIOStrategy.java:115)     at org.glassfish.grizzly.strategies.WorkerThreadIOStrategy.access$100(WorkerThreadIOStrategy.java:55)     at org.glassfish.grizzly.strategies.WorkerThreadIOStrategy$WorkerThreadRunnable.run(WorkerThreadIOStrategy.java:135)     at org.glassfish.grizzly.threadpool.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.doWork(AbstractThreadPool.java:564)     at org.glassfish.grizzly.threadpool.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.run(AbstractThreadPool.java:544)     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744) Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: private com.venkat.homeapp.service.CustomerService com.venkat.homeapp.controller.HomeAppController.customerService; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'customerService': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: private com.venkat.homeapp.dao.CustomerDAO com.venkat.homeapp.service.impl.CustomerServiceImpl.customerDAO; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'customerDAO': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: private org.hibernate.SessionFactory com.venkat.homeapp.dao.impl.CustomerDAOImpl.sessionFactory; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: [Lorg/hibernate/engine/FilterDefinition;     at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredFieldElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:508)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.InjectionMetadata.inject(InjectionMetadata.java:87)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:289)     ... 65 more Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'customerService': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: private com.venkat.homeapp.dao.CustomerDAO com.venkat.homeapp.service.impl.CustomerServiceImpl.customerDAO; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'customerDAO': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: private org.hibernate.SessionFactory com.venkat.homeapp.dao.impl.CustomerDAOImpl.sessionFactory; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: [Lorg/hibernate/engine/FilterDefinition;     at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:292)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1185)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:537)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:475)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:304)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:228)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:300)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:195)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.findAutowireCandidates(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1014)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.doResolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:957)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.resolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:855)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredFieldElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:480)     ... 67 more Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: private com.venkat.homeapp.dao.CustomerDAO com.venkat.homeapp.service.impl.CustomerServiceImpl.customerDAO; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'customerDAO': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: private org.hibernate.SessionFactory com.venkat.homeapp.dao.impl.CustomerDAOImpl.sessionFactory; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: [Lorg/hibernate/engine/FilterDefinition;     at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredFieldElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:508)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.InjectionMetadata.inject(InjectionMetadata.java:87)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:289)     ... 78 more Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'customerDAO': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: private org.hibernate.SessionFactory com.venkat.homeapp.dao.impl.CustomerDAOImpl.sessionFactory; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: [Lorg/hibernate/engine/FilterDefinition;     at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:292)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1185)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:537)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:475)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:304)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:228)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:300)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:195)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.findAutowireCandidates(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1014)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.doResolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:957)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.resolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:855)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredFieldElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:480)     ... 80 more Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: private org.hibernate.SessionFactory com.venkat.homeapp.dao.impl.CustomerDAOImpl.sessionFactory; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: [Lorg/hibernate/engine/FilterDefinition;     at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredFieldElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:508)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.InjectionMetadata.inject(InjectionMetadata.java:87)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:289)     ... 91 more Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: [Lorg/hibernate/engine/FilterDefinition;     at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredFields0(Native Method)     at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredFields(Class.java:2397)     at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredFields(Class.java:1806)     at org.springframework.orm.jpa.support.PersistenceAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.findPersistenceMetadata(PersistenceAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:392)     at org.springframework.orm.jpa.support.PersistenceAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessMergedBeanDefinition(PersistenceAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:332)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyMergedBeanDefinitionPostProcessors(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:908)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:512)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:475)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:304)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:228)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:300)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:195)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.findAutowireCandidates(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1014)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.doResolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:957)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.resolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:855)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredFieldElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:480)     ... 93 more Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.hibernate.engine.FilterDefinition     at org.glassfish.web.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1761)     at org.glassfish.web.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1611)     ... 109 more 

Answer 1

if you are using hibernate4.x

To solve the exception caused by java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: [Lorg/hibernate/engine/FilterDefinition;

In dipatcher-servlet,instead of

 <bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean"> 

use

<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean"> 

Answer 2

This is the relevant error:

Could not autowire field: private org.hibernate.SessionFactory com.venkat.homeapp.dao.impl.CustomerDAOImpl.sessionFactory; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError [Lorg/hibernate/engine/FilterDefinition;

and this is the probable cause:

  class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager">   class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean"> 

see that you have both hibernate4 and hibernate3 things in there. Copied from this answer,

I think you should use org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean instead of org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean

From LocalSessionFactoryBean javadoc:

NOTE: This variant of LocalSessionFactoryBean requires Hibernate 4.0 or higher. It is similar in role to the same-named class in the orm.hibernate3 package. However, in practice, it is closer to AnnotationSessionFactoryBean since its core purpose is to bootstrap a SessionFactory from annotation scanning.