No matching bean of type [org.hibernate.SessionFactory] found for dependency

Question

I'm a beginner in the Spring MVC. I encounter a problem "No matching bean of type [org.hibernate.SessionFactory] found for dependency: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for this dependency." and spend a lot time.

I used maven build management. My project has a project that consists 2 module : springcore (jar) and springmvc (web app). And springmvc (web app) has been dependency spring core. In module spring core, i defined all package such as dom, dao, service and their implementation and i also defined applicationContext.xml in src/main/resources following :

applicationContext.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
       xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
       xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx" 
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx 
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">

    <!-- Activates scanning of @Autowired -->
    <context:annotation-config />

    <context:component-scan base-package="com.netvn" /> 

    <bean id="propertyConfigurer"
         class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"
         p:location="classpath:jdbc" />

    <bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource"
            destroy-method="close" p:driverClassName="${jdbc.driverClassName}"
            p:url="${jdbc.databaseurl}" p:username="${jdbc.username}"                    p:password="${jdbc.password}" />

    <bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean">
            <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
            <property name="annotatedClasses">
                    <list>
                         <value>com.netvn.dom.Contact</value>
                    </list>
            </property>
            <property name="hibernateProperties">
        <props>
            <prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.max_fetch_depth">3</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.jdbc.fetch_size">50</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.jdbc.batch_size">10</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">update</prop>
        </props>
    </property>
    </bean>

    <tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" />
    <bean id="transactionManager"
            class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager">
         <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
    </bean>
</beans>

ContactDaoImpl.java

@Repository
public class ContactDaoImpl implements ContactDao {
    private Log log = LogFactory.getLog(ContactDaoImpl.class);

    @Autowired
    private SessionFactory sessionFactory;

    public List<Contact> listContact() {
        Session session = sessionFactory.getCurrentSession();
        Query q = session.createQuery("select g from Contact g order by id desc");
        List<Contact> contactList= q.list(); 
        return contactList; 
    }
}

ContactServiceImpl.java

@Service
@Transactional
public class ContactServiceImpl implements ContactService {

    @Autowired
    private ContactDao contactDao;

    @Transactional(propagation=Propagation.REQUIRED)
    public List<Contact> listContact(){
        return contactDao.listContact();
    }
}

In springmvc (web app), i defined web.xml and dispatcher-servlet.xml

dispatcher-servlet.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
                 http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
                 http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc 
                 http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd
                 http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
                 http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">
    <context:annotation-config />

    <mvc:annotation-driven />
    <context:component-scan base-package="com.netvn.dao" />
    <context:component-scan base-package="com.netvn.service" />
    <context:component-scan base-package="com.netvn.controller" />

    <bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver"
            p:prefix="/WEB-INF/jsp/" p:suffix=".jsp" />

 </beans>

web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"
version="3.0">
    <context-param>
            <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
            <param-value>
                 classpath*:*.xml
             </param-value>
    </context-param>
    <servlet>
            <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
            <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
            <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>

    <servlet-mapping>
            <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
            <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

    <listener>
          <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
    </listener> 
</web-app>

Here is my problem when i try to run it in Tomcat 6.0 server

Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: private org.hibernate.SessionFactory com.netvn.dao.impl.ContactDaoImpl.sessionFactory; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No matching bean of type [org.hibernate.SessionFactory] found for dependency: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for this dependency. Dependency annotations: {@org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired(required=true)}
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredFieldElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:502)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.InjectionMetadata.inject(InjectionMetadata.java:84)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:282)
    ... 86 more
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No matching bean of type [org.hibernate.SessionFactory] found for dependency: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for this dependency. Dependency annotations: {@org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired(required=true)}
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.raiseNoSuchBeanDefinitionException(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:920)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.doResolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:789)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.resolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:703)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredFieldElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:474)

Can someone tell me, what is the reason SessionFactory can't be created by Web Application Context or any problem when i configured SessionFactory.

Any supporting will be appreciated.

Answer 1

In general issue is missing configuration/classes from class path whether library of your own. Check again for correct import and configuration:

1. Either use classpath scanning for autodetection of entity classes:
   <bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean"> <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/> <property name="packagesToScan" value="test.package"/> </bean>

2. OR MOST IMPORTANT : AnnotationSessionFactoryBean class requires Hibernate 3.2 or later, with the Java Persistence API and the Hibernate Annotations add-on present.

REFER : https://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/3.2.8.RELEASE/javadoc-api/org/springframework/orm/hibernate3/annotation/AnnotationSessionFactoryBean.html