Problem with <tx:annotation-driven/> and JPA with Spring 2 RC3

[Hammerstein]

Dear all,

I transferred my working code from Spring 2.0 RC2 to RC3 and yield problems by using <tx:annotation-driven /> in conjunction with a LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean. This was the error:

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionAttributeSourceAdvisor': Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.NullPointerException
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionAttributeSourceAdvisor$TransactionAttributeSourcePointcut.getTransactionAttributeSource(TransactionAttributeSourceAdvisor.java:102)
	at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionAttributeSourceAdvisor$TransactionAttributeSourcePointcut.hashCode(TransactionAttributeSourceAdvisor.java:121)
	at java.lang.Object.toString(Object.java:209)
	at java.lang.String.valueOf(String.java:2577)
	at java.lang.StringBuffer.append(StringBuffer.java:220)
	at org.springframework.aop.support.AbstractPointcutAdvisor.toString(AbstractPointcutAdvisor.java:71)
	at java.lang.String.valueOf(String.java:2577)
	at java.lang.StringBuffer.append(StringBuffer.java:220)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:383)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:242)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:141)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:239)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:155)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:303)
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:348)
	at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:92)
	at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:77)
	at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:68)
	at de.oc.test.AppContextTest.testname(AppContextTest.java:23)
	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:585)
	at junit.framework.TestCase.runTest(TestCase.java:154)
	at junit.framework.TestCase.runBare(TestCase.java:127)
	at junit.framework.TestResult$1.protect(TestResult.java:106)
	at junit.framework.TestResult.runProtected(TestResult.java:124)
	at junit.framework.TestResult.run(TestResult.java:109)
	at junit.framework.TestCase.run(TestCase.java:118)
	at junit.framework.TestSuite.runTest(TestSuite.java:208)
	at junit.framework.TestSuite.run(TestSuite.java:203)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.junit3.JUnit3TestReference.run(JUnit3TestReference.java:128)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.TestExecution.run(TestExecution.java:38)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:460)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:673)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:386)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:196)

Do I miss some additional configurations which may be added by RC3 or is this a bug?

Thanking in advance
Oliver-Arne

[Costin Leau]

Can you please raise an issue on JIRA - seems to be a bug (even if you are missing something you shouldn't get a NPE)?
Thanks!.

[Hammerstein]

done.

http://opensource.atlassian.com/proj...rowse/SPR-2516

[Blair]

in the mean time ... you can get around it by creating the TransactionAttributeSourceAdvisor with its constructor.

replace <tx:annotation-driven /> with

    <bean class="org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.DefaultAdvisorAutoProxyCreator"/>    
    
    <bean id="transactionInterceptor" class="org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionInterceptor">
        <property name="transactionManager" ref="transactionManager" />
        <property name="transactionAttributeSource">
            <bean class="org.springframework.transaction.annotation.AnnotationTransactionAttributeSource" />
        </property>
    </bean>

    <bean class="org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionAttributeSourceAdvisor">
        <constructor-arg index="0" ref="transactionInterceptor"/>
    </bean>

and it should work

Its also been fixed after RC-3, I've commented the Jira.