Question

I’m getting:

root cause

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1701)
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1546)
org.springframework.util.ClassUtils.forName(ClassUtils.java:258)
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinition.resolve

I searched the internet and mostly found that people who had the same issue just didn’t had the right jars in the right place.
If I look in my WEB-INF/lib folder in Tomcat I get the following listing:

-rw-r--r--  1 Jonas  admin   443432  3 mrt 16:48 antlr-2.7.6.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 Jonas  admin   445288 12 feb 18:47 antlr-2.7.7.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 Jonas  admin     4467 12 feb 18:43 aopalliance-1.0.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 Jonas  admin    43033  4 mrt 14:08 asm-3.1.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 Jonas  admin   278682  4 mrt 14:08 cglib-2.2.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 Jonas  admin   559366  4 mrt 14:08 commons-collections-3.1.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 Jonas  admin   575389 12 feb 18:47 commons-collections-3.2.1.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 Jonas  admin    60686  3 mrt 17:17 commons-logging-1.1.1.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 Jonas  admin   313898 12 feb 18:47 dom4j-1.6.1.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 Jonas  admin   365546  4 mrt 13:59 hibernate-annotations-3.5.6-Final.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 Jonas  admin    71283  4 mrt 13:59 hibernate-commons-annotations-3.2.0.Final.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 Jonas  admin    81271  3 mrt 20:15 hibernate-commons-annotations-4.0.1.Final.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 Jonas  admin  3123360  4 mrt 14:08 hibernate-core-3.6.10.Final.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 Jonas  admin  4317092  3 mrt 20:15 hibernate-core-4.1.0.Final.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 Jonas  admin   426671  4 mrt 14:08 hibernate-entitymanager-3.6.10.Final.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 Jonas  admin   476002  3 mrt 20:15 hibernate-entitymanager-4.1.0.Final.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 Jonas  admin   102661  3 mrt 20:15 hibernate-jpa-2.0-api-1.0.1.Final.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 Jonas  admin   633312  4 mrt 14:08 javassist-3.12.0.GA.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 Jonas  admin   648253  3 mrt 20:15 javassist-3.15.0-GA.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 Jonas  admin    60539  3 mrt 20:15 jboss-logging-3.1.0.CR2.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 Jonas  admin    11209  3 mrt 20:15 jboss-transaction-api_1.1_spec-1.0.0.Final.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 Jonas  admin    15071  4 mrt 14:08 jta-1.1.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 Jonas  admin    23445  4 mrt 13:59 slf4j-api-1.5.8.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 Jonas  admin    25496 12 feb 18:43 slf4j-api-1.6.1.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 Jonas  admin   331471  3 mrt 17:17 spring-aop-3.1.1.RELEASE.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 Jonas  admin    53081  3 mrt 17:16 spring-asm-3.1.1.RELEASE.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 Jonas  admin   589824  3 mrt 17:17 spring-beans-3.1.1.RELEASE.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 Jonas  admin   831068  3 mrt 17:17 spring-context-3.1.1.RELEASE.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 Jonas  admin   107225  3 mrt 17:17 spring-context-support-3.1.1.RELEASE.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 Jonas  admin   449324  3 mrt 17:17 spring-core-3.1.1.RELEASE.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 Jonas  admin   176311  3 mrt 17:17 spring-expression-3.1.1.RELEASE.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 Jonas  admin   544291  3 mrt 17:17 spring-web-3.1.1.RELEASE.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 Jonas  admin   573701  3 mrt 17:16 spring-webmvc-3.1.1.RELEASE.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 Jonas  admin   109318 12 feb 18:46 xml-apis-1.0.b2.jar

So all the needed jars are there. So I can’t see why I keep getting the classNotFound Exception.

Here’s my hibernate.hbm.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd">

<!-- Hibernate session factory -->
<bean id="sessionFactory"
        class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean">

    <property name="dataSource">
        <ref bean="dataSource" />
    </property>

    <property name="hibernateProperties">
        <props>
            <prop     key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
        </props>
    </property>

    <property name="annotatedClasses">
        <list>
            <value>org.geiregat.jonas.entity</value>
        </list>
    </property>

</bean>
</beans>

Answer 1

So all the needed jars are there

No, they’re not. AnnotationSessionFactoryBean is in the spring-orm JAR, which you don’t have.

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