standalone spring app, exception loading context from xml file

[ew0kian]

im trying to just up an application context file using the FileSystemXmlApplicationContext object, but im getting a stacktrace when it tries to load my LocalSessionFactoryBean.

 
<bean id="myDataSource" class="com.mchange.v2.c3p0.ComboPooledDataSource" destroy-method="close">
<property name="driverClass" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" />
<property name="jdbcUrl" value="dbc:mysql://localhost:3306/gsdb?autoReconnect=true" />
<property name="user" value="root" />
<property name="password" value="asdf" />
</bean>

 
<bean id="mySessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
        <property name="dataSource" ref="myDataSource" />
        <property name="mappingResources">
            <list>
                <value>blah.hbm.xml</value>    
            </list>
        </property>
        <property name="hibernateProperties">
            <value>hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect</value>
        </property>
    </bean>

INFO: Destroying singletons in org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory@29ac: defining beans [myDataSource,mySessionFactory,userDao]; root of factory hierarchy
Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'mySessionFactory' defined in file [C:\myWorkspace\myapp\war\WEB-INF\daoContext.xml]: Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/dom4j/DocumentException
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.instantiateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:883)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBeanInstance(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:839)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:440)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory$1.run(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:409)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:380)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:264)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:221)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:261)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:185)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:164)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:423)
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:729)
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:381)
	at org.springframework.context.support.FileSystemXmlApplicationContext.<init>(FileSystemXmlApplicationContext.java:140)
	at org.springframework.context.support.FileSystemXmlApplicationContext.<init>(FileSystemXmlApplicationContext.java:94)
	at myapp.dbcontrol.TableCreater.create(TableCreater.java:37)
	at myapp.dbcontrol.TableCreater.main(TableCreater.java:27)
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/dom4j/DocumentException
	at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:115)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.SimpleInstantiationStrategy.instantiate(SimpleInstantiationStrategy.java:61)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.instantiateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:877)
	... 17 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/dom4j/DocumentException
	at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
	at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source)
	at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean.class$(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:174)
	at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean.<init>(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:174)
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
	at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:100)
	... 19 more

[Mike Bingham]

The error appears to be caused by a missing jar file in your classpath:

Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/dom4j/DocumentException

Hibernate has some dependencies on dom4j.

[ew0kian]

okay i copied all the files from hibernate distribution's required lib folder... then it complains about lacking slf4j's StaticLoggerBinder, so i did some research and found that i should be including slf4j-simple in addition to the slf4j-api which was in the hibernate required lib folder. its strange that the hibernate team did not include this file in their distribution?

[ew0kian]

now im getting the following exception:

: Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: name

[croudet]

Try to use the <props> element:

....
<property name="hibernateProperties">
  <props>
	<prop key="hibernate.dialect">${hibernate.dialect}</prop>
	<prop key="hibernate.show_sql">${hibernate.show_sql}</prop>
	<prop key="hibernate.generate_statistics">${hibernate.generate_statistics}</prop>
  </props>
....

[ew0kian]

tried changing it to

        <property name="hibernateProperties">
            <props>
            	<prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect</prop>
       		 </props>
         </property>

but same error occurs

[ew0kian]

any ideas?

[al0]

Can you post full stck trace?

any ideas?

[ew0kian]

Sep 17, 2008 1:23:24 AM org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext prepareRefresh
INFO: Refreshing org.springframework.context.support.FileSystemXmlApplicationContext@ec16a4: display name [org.springframework.context.support.FileSystemXmlApplicationContext@ec16a4]; startup date [Wed Sep 17 01:23:24 CDT 2008]; root of context hierarchy
Sep 17, 2008 1:23:24 AM org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader loadBeanDefinitions
INFO: Loading XML bean definitions from file [C:\myWorkspace\myapp\war\WEB-INF\applicationContext.xml]
Sep 17, 2008 1:23:24 AM org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader loadBeanDefinitions
INFO: Loading XML bean definitions from file [C:\myWorkspace\myapp\war\WEB-INF\daoContext.xml]
Sep 17, 2008 1:23:25 AM org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext obtainFreshBeanFactory
INFO: Bean factory for application context [org.springframework.context.support.FileSystemXmlApplicationContext@ec16a4]: org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory@1e04cbf
Sep 17, 2008 1:23:25 AM org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory preInstantiateSingletons
INFO: Pre-instantiating singletons in org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory@1e04cbf: defining beans [myDataSource,mySessionFactory]; root of factory hierarchy
Sep 17, 2008 1:23:25 AM com.mchange.v2.log.MLog <clinit>
INFO: MLog clients using java 1.4+ standard logging.
Sep 17, 2008 1:23:25 AM com.mchange.v2.c3p0.C3P0Registry banner
INFO: Initializing c3p0-0.9.1.2 [built 21-May-2007 15:04:56; debug? true; trace: 10]
Sep 17, 2008 1:23:25 AM org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry destroySingletons
INFO: Destroying singletons in org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory@1e04cbf: defining beans [myDataSource,mySessionFactory]; root of factory hierarchy
Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'mySessionFactory' defined in file [C:\myWorkspace\myapp\war\WEB-INF\daoContext.xml]: Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: name
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.instantiateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:883)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBeanInstance(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:839)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:440)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory$1.run(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:409)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:380)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:264)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:221)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:261)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:185)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:164)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:423)
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:729)
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:381)
	at org.springframework.context.support.FileSystemXmlApplicationContext.<init>(FileSystemXmlApplicationContext.java:140)
	at org.springframework.context.support.FileSystemXmlApplicationContext.<init>(FileSystemXmlApplicationContext.java:94)
	at myapp.dbcontrol.TableCreater.create(TableCreater.java:35)
	at myapp.dbcontrol.TableCreater.main(TableCreater.java:26)
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: name
	at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:115)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.SimpleInstantiationStrategy.instantiate(SimpleInstantiationStrategy.java:61)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.instantiateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:877)
	... 17 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: name
	at org.slf4j.impl.SimpleLogger.<init>(SimpleLogger.java:83)
	at org.slf4j.impl.SimpleLoggerFactory.getLogger(SimpleLoggerFactory.java:67)
	at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:103)
	at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.<clinit>(Configuration.java:128)
	at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
	at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source)
	at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean.class$(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:174)
	at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean.<init>(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:174)
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
	at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:100)
	... 19 more

[dendery]

any ideas?

I have similar error with spring-framework-2.5.3 and hibernate-3.3.1.GA
While I can not understand why the problem occurs.
Can anyone help me find the cause of the error?

2008-09-16 18:47:21,084 ERROR [org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader] - Context initialization failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'josService' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Cannot create inner bean 'mejos.domain.service.JosServiceImpl#1e5bbb0' of type [mejos.domain.service.JosServiceImpl] while setting bean property 'target'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'mejos.domain.service.JosServiceImpl#1e5bbb0' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'domainDao' while setting bean property 'domainDao'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'domainDao' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/dataAccessContext-hibernate.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'sessionFactory' while setting bean property 'sessionFactory'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'sessionFactory' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/dataAccessContext-hibernate.xml]: Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: name
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveInnerBean(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:230)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveValueIfNecessary(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:117)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyPropertyValues(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1244)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1008)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:470)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory$1.run(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:409)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:380)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:264)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:217)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:261)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:185)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:164)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:423)
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:729)
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:381)
	at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:255)
	at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:199)
	at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:45)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3843)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4350)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:525)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:626)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:553)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:488)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.check(HostConfig.java:1215)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:293)
	at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:117)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.backgroundProcess(ContainerBase.java:1337)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1601)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1610)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.run(ContainerBase.java:1590)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)