Exception NoClassDefFoundError for CacheProvider

Question

I'm kind of new in Spring and hibernate so I'm trying to implement some simple web application based on Spring 3 + hibernate 4 while I start tomcat I have this exception:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/hibernate/cache/CacheProvider at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2427) at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods(Class.java:1791)     ... Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.hibernate.cache.CacheProvider at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1678) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1523) 

I've found that this class was in hibernate-core for hibernate 3 but I've not found it in hibernate 4.

The part of my context.xml for persistence:

<bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource">     <property name="driverClassName" value="org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver"/>     <property name="url" value="jdbc:oracle:thin:@IP_Address:SID"/>     <property name="username" value="xxx"/>     <property name="password" value="xxx"/>     <property name="initialSize" value="5"/>     <property name="maxActive" value="20"/> </bean>  <bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean">     <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />     <property name="packagesToScan" value="com.huawei.vms.user"/>     <property name="hibernateProperties">         <props>             <prop key="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle10gDialect</prop>         </props>     </property> </bean> 

Please help me to figure out why it's trying to load CacheProvider because I dont have any settings for that in context.xml and which jar I have to add in my project. Thanks!

Answer 1

Change your AnnotationSessionFactoryBean to org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean (Hibernate 4) and you'll be good to go. The AnnotationSessionFactoryBean was replaced with the LocalSessionFactoryBean as it does class path scanning now.