Hibernate 5 java.lang.NoSuchMethodError org.jboss.logging.Logger.debugf

Question

I have a problem when I deploy a webapp with hibernate 5

Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.jboss.logging.Logger.debugf(Ljava/lang/String;I)V
at org.hibernate.internal.NamedQueryRepository.checkNamedQueries(NamedQueryRepository.java:149) [hibernate-core-5.0.0.CR2.jar:5.0.0.CR2]
at org.hibernate.internal.SessionFactoryImpl.checkNamedQueries(SessionFactoryImpl.java:759) [hibernate-core-5.0.0.CR2.jar:5.0.0.CR2]
at org.hibernate.internal.SessionFactoryImpl.<init>(SessionFactoryImpl.java:490) [hibernate-core-5.0.0.CR2.jar:5.0.0.CR2]
at org.hibernate.boot.internal.SessionFactoryBuilderImpl.build(SessionFactoryBuilderImpl.java:444) [hibernate-core-5.0.0.CR2.jar:5.0.0.CR2]
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:708) [hibernate-core-5.0.0.CR2.jar:5.0.0.CR2]
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:724) [hibernate-core-5.0.0.CR2.jar:5.0.0.CR2]
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBuilder.buildSessionFactory(LocalSessionFactoryBuilder.java:372) [spring-orm-4.1.7.RELEASE.jar:4.1.7.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean.buildSessionFactory(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:454) [spring-orm-4.1.7.RELEASE.jar:4.1.7.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:439) [spring-orm-4.1.7.RELEASE.jar:4.1.7.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1633) [spring-beans-4.1.7.RELEASE.jar:4.1.7.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1570) [spring-beans-4.1.7.RELEASE.jar:4.1.7.RELEASE]
... 23 more

With Hibernate 4 everything is OK.

I had a look at the class NamedQueryRepository at line 149. That class is calling the method debugf in this way

        log.debugf( "Checking %s named HQL queries", namedQueryDefinitionMap.size() );

I can not see the problem

Here is my dependency tree

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building app Maven Webapp 1.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-dependency-plugin:2.8:tree (default-cli) @ app---
[INFO] +- org.springframework:spring-aspects:jar:4.1.7.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] |  \- org.aspectj:aspectjweaver:jar:1.8.6:compile
[INFO] +- org.springframework:spring-tx:jar:4.1.7.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] +- org.springframework:spring-beans:jar:4.1.7.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] +- org.springframework:spring-context-support:jar:4.1.7.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] +- org.springframework:spring-context:jar:4.1.7.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] |  \- org.springframework:spring-expression:jar:4.1.7.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] +- org.springframework:spring-core:jar:4.1.7.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] |  \- commons-logging:commons-logging:jar:1.2:compile
[INFO] +- org.springframework:spring-orm:jar:4.1.7.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] +- org.springframework:spring-web:jar:4.1.7.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] +- org.springframework:spring-aop:jar:4.1.7.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] |  \- aopalliance:aopalliance:jar:1.0:compile
[INFO] +- org.springframework:spring-jdbc:jar:4.1.7.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] +- org.springframework:spring-test:jar:4.1.7.RELEASE:test
[INFO] +- junit:junit:jar:4.12:test
[INFO] |  \- org.hamcrest:hamcrest-core:jar:1.3:test
[INFO] +- org.hibernate:hibernate-entitymanager:jar:5.0.0.CR2:compile
[INFO] |  +- org.jboss.logging:jboss-logging:jar:3.3.0.Final:compile
[INFO] |  +- org.hibernate:hibernate-core:jar:5.0.0.CR2:compile
[INFO] |  |  +- antlr:antlr:jar:2.7.7:compile
[INFO] |  |  \- org.jboss:jandex:jar:1.2.2.Final:compile
[INFO] |  +- dom4j:dom4j:jar:1.6.1:compile
[INFO] |  |  \- xml-apis:xml-apis:jar:1.0.b2:compile
[INFO] |  +- org.hibernate.common:hibernate-commons-annotations:jar:5.0.0.Final:compile
[INFO] |  +- org.hibernate.javax.persistence:hibernate-jpa-2.1-api:jar:1.0.0.Final:compile
[INFO] |  +- org.apache.geronimo.specs:geronimo-jta_1.1_spec:jar:1.1.1:compile
[INFO] |  \- org.javassist:javassist:jar:3.18.1-GA:compile
[INFO] +- org.hibernate:hibernate-c3p0:jar:5.0.0.CR2:compile
[INFO] |  \- com.mchange:c3p0:jar:0.9.2.1:compile
[INFO] |     \- com.mchange:mchange-commons-java:jar:0.2.3.4:compile
[INFO] +- org.primefaces:primefaces:jar:5.2.RC3:compile
[INFO] +- org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-api:jar:2.2:compile
[INFO] +- org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core:jar:2.2:compile
[INFO] \- net.sourceforge.jtds:jtds:jar:1.2.8:compile
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Answer 1

In glass fish This problem is caused by collision with dependencies of glassfish modules. If you check lib list in glassfishdir/modules you would see boss-logging.jar. You can delete it and replace with latest such as org.jboss.logging:jboss-logging:jar:3.3.0.Final. It worked for me.

Answer 2

In my case the culprit was the Jersey bean validator artifact. One of its dependencies, bean-validation-2.4.0-b06.jar contains Jboss logging classes, for some reason. I had to exclude the jersey-bean-validation and bean-validator artifacts from the spring-boot-starter-jersey dependency:

<dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-jersey</artifactId>
        <exclusions>
            <exclusion>
                <artifactId>jersey-bean-validation</artifactId>
                <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.ext</groupId>
            </exclusion>
            <exclusion>
                <artifactId>bean-validator</artifactId>
                <groupId>org.glassfish.hk2.external</groupId>
            </exclusion>
        </exclusions>
    </dependency>

EDIT: As of spring-boot 1.3.0, this is fixed and the exclusions above are not necessary anymore.

Answer 3

Try upgrading jboss-logging.jar to a more recent version. The one you are using does not seem to be compatible with Hibernate 5.