I’m using Spring-Data-JPA 1.0.3.RELEASE to manage my ORM. my persistence.xml looks like this: <persistence>

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Asked: June 3, 20262026-06-03T07:50:41+00:00 2026-06-03T07:50:41+00:00

I’m using Spring-Data-JPA 1.0.3.RELEASE to manage my ORM. my persistence.xml looks like this: <persistence>

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I’m using Spring-Data-JPA 1.0.3.RELEASE to manage my ORM.

my persistence.xml looks like this:

<persistence>
    <persistence-unit name="default" transaction-type="JTA">
        <provider>org.apache.openjpa.persistence.PersistenceProviderImpl</provider>
        <jta-data-source>jdbc/myDataSource</jta-data-source>
        <properties>
            <property name="openjpa.TransactionMode" value="managed" />
            <property name="openjpa.ConnectionFactoryMode" value="managed" />
            <property name="openjpa.jdbc.DBDictionary" value="db2" />
        </properties>
    </persistence-unit>
</persistence>

applicationContext looks like this

<beans>
<context:annotation-config />
<bean id="myExceptionTranslator" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.DefaultJpaDialect" />

<bean id="myEmf" class="javax.persistence.Persistence" factory-method="createEntityManagerFactory">
        <constructor-arg type="java.lang.String" value="default" />
</bean>
    <jpa:repositories base-package="model.repositories" />
    <tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="txManager" />
    <bean
        class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.support.PersistenceAnnotationBeanPostProcessor" />
</beans>

my OrderRepo interface looks like this:

@Transactional(readOnly = true)
public interface OrderRepository extends JpaRepository<Order, Long> {
//my stuff
}

and i’m using it like this within my service class

@Autowired
private OrderRepository repository;

But it looks like websphere dosn’t like it as much and gives me this error:

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'orderService': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: private model.repositories.OrderRepository model.service.OrderService.repository; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'orderRepository': FactoryBean threw exception on object creation; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax/persistence/EntityManager.getMetamodel()Ljavax/persistence/metamodel/Metamodel;

the only ressource i found regarding this problem points out errors in previous Spring-Data-JPA versions which are marked as fixed by now or errors using wrong dependencies to the spring-data-commons jar – however: i’m leaving that to maven so the data-commons version should be fine. also i found that spring data JPA needs a JPA 2.0 implementation so i checked for the openJPA version on the websphere server and it’s fine.

Any ideas what could be causing this?