Spring 3.1.0.M1 and STS

[davidfoley]

Hi,

first of all, apologies for (i) perhaps posting to the wrong place and (ii) possibly not having a clear picture of the issue I'm having (new to spring, STS and maven, but experienced developer).

In a nutshell- basing a project on this article, I configured my POM to successfully obtain the project dependencies: Spring 3.1.0.M1, Spring Security 3.1.0.RC, and Spring Social 1.0.0.M2 respectively.

The first issue is that STS reports errors with servlet-context.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-3.1.xsd
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.1.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.1.xsd">

    <context:property-placeholder location="classpath:config.properties"/>

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

    <!--  	 
        these settings in the mvc namespace cause the IDE issue
     -->
    <mvc:annotation-driven/>
    <mvc:view-controller path="/index.html" view-name="index"/>
    <mvc:view-controller path="/" view-name="index"/>
	 
    <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
        <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/"/>
        <property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/>
    </bean>

    <bean class="org.springframework.social.web.connect.ConnectController">
        <constructor-arg value="${application.url}"/>
    </bean>
</beans>

The error I get in the IDE is

Error occured processing XML 'tried to access class org.springframework.core.convert.support.ArrayToCollectionConverter from class org.springframework.core.convert.support.DefaultConversionService'. See Error Log for more details

Unfortunately there are no more details in the error log. I don't want to confuse matters by hazarding a guess right now, so onto the second issue, which is when I start STS spring insight after dragging my project into the servers panel, I get this

Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.dao.annotation.
PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor#0' defined in class path resource [com/springsource/insight/repo/app-config-db.xml]:
Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationExce ption: Error creating bean with name 'entityManagerFactory' defined in class path resource [com/springsource/insight/repo/app-config-db.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.persistence.spi.PersistenceUnitInfo.getValid ationMode()Ljavax/persistence/ValidationMode;


the truncated stack looks like this

2011-03-25 15:50:17,787 ERROR [org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader][main] - Context initialization failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.dao.annotation.PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor#0' defined in class path resource [com/springsource/insight/repo/app-config-db.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'entityManagerFactory' defined in class path resource [com/springsource/insight/repo/app-config-db.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.persistence.spi.PersistenceUnitInfo.getValidationMode()Ljavax/persistence/ValidationMode;
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:527)
	... more
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'entityManagerFactory' defined in class path resource [com/springsource/insight/repo/app-config-db.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.persistence.spi.PersistenceUnitInfo.getValidationMode()Ljavax/persistence/ValidationMode;
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1420)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:519)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:456)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:291)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:288)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:194)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.getBeansOfType(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:398)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactoryUtils.beansOfTypeIncludingAncestors(BeanFactoryUtils.java:266)
	at org.springframework.dao.support.PersistenceExceptionTranslationInterceptor.detectPersistenceExceptionTranslators(PersistenceExceptionTranslationInterceptor.java:139)
	... more
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.persistence.spi.PersistenceUnitInfo.getValidationMode()Ljavax/persistence/ValidationMode;
	at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.configure(Ejb3Configuration.java:617)
	... more
25-Mar-2011 15:50:17 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart
SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.dao.annotation.PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor#0' defined in class path resource [com/springsource/insight/repo/app-config-db.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'entityManagerFactory' defined in class path resource [com/springsource/insight/repo/app-config-db.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.persistence.spi.PersistenceUnitInfo.getValidationMode()Ljavax/persistence/ValidationMode;
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:527)
	... more
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414)
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'entityManagerFactory' defined in class path resource [com/springsource/insight/repo/app-config-db.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.persistence.spi.PersistenceUnitInfo.getValidationMode()Ljavax/persistence/ValidationMode;
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1420)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:519)
	... more
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.persistence.spi.PersistenceUnitInfo.getValidationMode()Ljavax/persistence/ValidationMode;
	at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.configure(Ejb3Configuration.java:617)
	at org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence.createContainerEntityManagerFactory(HibernatePersistence.java:72)
	... more

Can anybody hazard a guess to whats causing this? Is there a conflict going on between Spring 3.0 and Spring 3.1? Does Spring insight server need to be configured to use 3.1? Does the IDE? I really can't figure this out. Would JPA 1/2 collision be an issue?

I really appreciate any and all feedback. Thanks.

[bencmai]

I encounter this problem too,I think it is a bug of sts ,it seem nothing effect on runtime

[Christian Dupuis]

Hi,

STS currently does not support Spring 3.1. This is due to API changes in Spring 3.1 that affect the interoperability between Spring and STS.

You can track this at the following JIRA:

STS-1655: Support Spring 3.1
https://issuetracker.springsource.com/browse/STS-1655

I was planning to start the basic Spring 3.1 support this week. This will at least give 3.1 users the same level of tooling as with previous Spring versions. We will also support new features like profiles etc.

Christian

[Brad Murray]

Any updates on this process Christian? the JIRA doesn't seem to have any activity.

[Martin Lippert]

We are waiting for the next Spring 3.1 milestone which should ship soon. Hope to get early Spring 3.1 support in STS then.

Cheers,
-Martin