NoClassDefFoundError: org/hibernate/engine/SessionFactoryImplementor thrown from SessionFactoryUtils when using LocalSessionFactoryBuilder [SPR-8885]

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Alex Barnes opened SPR-8885 and commented

I just updated my Maven dependency to Spring 3.1.RC2 and whilst playing around I decided to upgrade my Hibernate dependency to 4.0.0.CR6. I have existing code which configures a SessionFactory using @Configuration. I appreciate that the LocalSessionFactoryBuilder#buildSessionFactory method is deprecated but it appears that SessionFactoryUtils is not compatible with the new layout in Hibernate 4. Specifically SessionFactoryImplementor has moved from org.hibernate.engine to org.hibernate.engine.spi.

return new LocalSessionFactoryBuilder(dataSource)
  .addAnnotatedClasses(Spot.class, SupportedBuoy.class)
  .addProperties(properties).buildSessionFactory();

Full stack track:

Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/hibernate/engine/SessionFactoryImplementor
    at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.SessionFactoryUtils.getDataSource(SessionFactoryUtils.java:121)
    at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager.afterPropertiesSet(HibernateTransactionManager.java:411)
    at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager.<init>(HibernateTransactionManager.java:174)
    at com.devcentre.app.config.HibernateConfiguration.transactionManager(HibernateConfiguration.java:75)
    at com.devcentre.app.config.HibernateConfiguration$$EnhancerByCGLIB$$e2ff8f9b.CGLIB$transactionManager$1(<generated>)
    at com.devcentre.app.config.HibernateConfiguration$$EnhancerByCGLIB$$e2ff8f9b$$FastClassByCGLIB$$3db91f52.invoke(<generated>)
    at net.sf.cglib.proxy.MethodProxy.invokeSuper(MethodProxy.java:167)
    at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassEnhancer$BeanMethodInterceptor.intercept(ConfigurationClassEnhancer.java:279)
    at com.devcentre.app.config.HibernateConfiguration$$EnhancerByCGLIB$$e2ff8f9b.transactionManager(<generated>)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.SimpleInstantiationStrategy.instantiate(SimpleInstantiationStrategy.java:149)

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Affects: 3.1 RC2

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Alex Barnes commented

OK, so I went to all the trouble of typing this up without spending the required time to understand exactly what was going on. I needed to be using a org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager.

Please close me.

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Chris Beams commented

No problem, Alex. Thanks for following up.