Question

Since three days i am trying to get my Spring-Hibernate programs run. i had really tough time finding the involved dependencies due to version difference between hibernate2 and hibernate3.
Finally i was able to run program with following set of dependencies

• cglib-nodep-2.1_3.jar
• commons-collections.jar
• commons-dbcp.jar
• commons-pool.jar
• commons-logging.jar
• dom4j-1.4.jar
• ehcache-1.6.0-beta1.jar
• hibernate-3.1.3.jar
• hsqldb.jar
• jta.jar log4j-1.2.9.jar
• mysql-connector-java-5.0.8-bin.jar
• org.springframework.orm-3.1.0.M1.jar
• org.springframework.transaction-3.1.0.M1.jar
• spring-2.5.6.jar
• spring-beans-2.0.4.jar

now after two days of efforts when i was able to manage the above mentioned dependencies i tried building similar program but it is throwing following error.I tried online for solution but the solution which i found there is not correct version of spring and hibernate …Can any one tell me correct cause of exception and also correct version of the Spring and hibernate

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Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'myRecordDAO' defined in class path resource [applicationContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'hibernateTemplate' while setting bean property 'hibernateTemplate'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'hibernateTemplate' defined in class path resource [applicationContext.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 class path resource [applicationContext.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.reflect.MalformedParameterizedTypeException
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:275)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveValueIfNecessary(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:104)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyPropertyValues(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1245)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1010)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:472)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory$1.run(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:409)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)

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I am also adding my application 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"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd">

    <bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource">
        <property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>
        <property name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/subhash"/>
        <property name="username" value="root"/>
        <property name="password" value=""></property>
    </bean>


    <bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
        <property name="dataSource"><ref local="dataSource"/></property>
        <property name="mappingResources">
            <list>
                <value>MyRecord.hbm.xml</value>
            </list>
         </property>
        <property name="hibernateProperties">
            <props>
                <prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect</prop>
                <prop key="show_sql">true</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">create</prop>
            </props>
        </property>

    </bean>

    <bean id="hibernateTemplate" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTemplate">
        <property name="sessionFactory"><ref local="sessionFactory"/></property>
    </bean>
    <bean id="myRecordDAO" class="com.shoesobjects.MyRecordDAOHibernateWithSpring">
        <property name="hibernateTemplate"><ref local="hibernateTemplate"/></property>
    </bean>
</beans>

Answer 1

a)

Note
As of Spring 3.0, Spring requires Hibernate 3.2 or later.

Source:

• Spring 3.1.x Reference >
  Hibernate

b)

• org.springframework.orm-3.1.0.M1.jar
• org.springframework.transaction-3.1.0.M1.jar
• spring-2.5.6.jar
• spring-beans-2.0.4.jar

Do you really think mixing current pre-release versions (3.1.x) with ancient versions (2.0.4 was released in 2007) is a good idea?

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As matt says: use a dependency managements system like Maven, what you are dealing with is jar hell. Here’s an article about referencing Spring 3.x artifacts from maven:

Obtaining Spring 3 Artifacts with
Maven