Command mvn spring-boot:run cause ClassNotFound Exception with JPA Metamodel - spring

I'm having a spring boot application using JPA Metamodel.
The thing is, when I run mvn spring-boot:run command, it cause a failure build with a ClassNotFound exception happens with JPA Metamodel class
```
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'entityManagerFactory' defined in class path resource [org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/orm/jpa/HibernateJpaAutoConfiguration.class]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: LSingularAttribute;
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1628)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:555)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:483)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:306)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:230)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:302)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:197)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.getBean(AbstractApplicationContext.java:1080)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:857)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:543)
at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.refresh(EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.java:122)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refresh(SpringApplication.java:693)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refreshContext(SpringApplication.java:360)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:303)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1118)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1107)
at com.thanglequoc.SpringRollApplication.main(SpringRollApplication.java:10)
... 6 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: LSingularAttribute;
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredFields0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredFields(Class.java:2583)
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredField(Class.java:2068)
at org.hibernate.jpa.internal.metamodel.MetadataContext.registerAttribute(MetadataContext.java:421)
at org.hibernate.jpa.internal.metamodel.MetadataContext.registerAttributes(MetadataContext.java:381)
at org.hibernate.jpa.internal.metamodel.MetadataContext.populateStaticMetamodel(MetadataContext.java:358)
at org.hibernate.jpa.internal.metamodel.MetadataContext.wrapUp(MetadataContext.java:217)
at org.hibernate.jpa.internal.metamodel.MetamodelImpl.buildMetamodel(MetamodelImpl.java:82)
at org.hibernate.jpa.internal.EntityManagerFactoryImpl.<init>(EntityManagerFactoryImpl.java:113)
at org.hibernate.jpa.boot.internal.EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.build(EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.java:890)
at org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.SpringHibernateJpaPersistenceProvider.createContainerEntityManagerFactory(SpringHibernateJpaPersistenceProvider.java:60)
at org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean.createNativeEntityManagerFactory(LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean.java:360)
at org.springframework.orm.jpa.AbstractEntityManagerFactoryBean.buildNativeEntityManagerFactory(AbstractEntityManagerFactoryBean.java:382)
at org.springframework.orm.jpa.AbstractEntityManagerFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(AbstractEntityManagerFactoryBean.java:371)
at org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean.java:336)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1687)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1624)
... 22 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: SingularAttribute
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
... 39 more
```
My pom.xml
```
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.thanglequoc</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-roll-company</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>spring-roll-company</name>
<description>Spring Roll Company is a goofy and playful company, built on Spring Boot</description>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.5.10.RELEASE</version>
<relativePath />
</parent>
<properties>
<start-class>com.thanglequoc.SpringRollApplication</start-class>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/mysql/mysql-connector-java -->
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<version>6.0.6</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.modelmapper/modelmapper -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.modelmapper</groupId>
<artifactId>modelmapper</artifactId>
<version>1.1.2</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.commons/commons-lang3 -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
<version>3.7</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.commons/commons-collections4 -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-collections4</artifactId>
<version>4.1</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.h2database/h2 -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
<artifactId>h2</artifactId>
<version>1.4.196</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.bsc.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-processor-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.3.3</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>process</id>
<goals>
<goal>process</goal>
</goals>
<phase>generate-sources</phase>
<configuration>
<processors>
<processor>org.hibernate.jpamodelgen.JPAMetaModelEntityProcessor</processor>
</processors>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-jpamodelgen</artifactId>
<version>5.3.1.Final</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
```
I belived the metamodel set up is alright, because when I run the spring boot with Eclipse (with Spring Boot plugin installed), using Run As -> Spring Boot App, it ran successfully without any error. I suspects there is a difference between mvn spring-boot:run command and Eclipse Spring Boot Application run procedure, but haven't yet figured out.
That JPA Metamodel ClassNotFound exception also happen when I run mvn test using Maven SureFire plugin, I have to run mvn test-compile test to make thing works.

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java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.datastax.spark.connector.japi.rdd.CassandraTableScanJavaRDD

I am using Kafka Spark Streaming along with cassandra. When I am running my java class using eclipse it works fine but when I build using maven and execute it on Spark Shell it is throwing below mentioned exception.
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/datastax/spark/connector/japi/rdd/CassandraTableScanJavaRDD
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:348)
at org.apache.spark.util.Utils$.classForName(Utils.scala:230)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.org$apache$spark$deploy$SparkSubmit$$runMain(SparkSubmit.scala:712)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.doRunMain$1(SparkSubmit.scala:180)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.submit(SparkSubmit.scala:205)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.main(SparkSubmit.scala:119)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit.main(SparkSubmit.scala)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.datastax.spark.connector.japi.rdd.CassandraTableScanJavaRDD
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
I have tried using maven jar plugin but it is not working.
My pom.xml configuration is
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.edureka.capstone</groupId>
<artifactId>spark-cassandra-demo</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<dependencies>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.spark/spark-core_2.11 -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
<artifactId>spark-core_2.11</artifactId>
<version>2.2.0</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.spark/spark-streaming_2.10 -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
<artifactId>spark-streaming_2.10</artifactId>
<version>2.2.0</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.datastax.spark/spark-cassandra-connector_2.11 -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.datastax.spark</groupId>
<artifactId>spark-cassandra-connector_2.11</artifactId>
<version>2.0.5</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.datastax.spark/spark-cassandra-connector-java_2.10 -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.datastax.spark</groupId>
<artifactId>spark-cassandra-connector-java_2.10</artifactId>
<version>1.6.0-M1</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.datastax.cassandra/cassandra-driver-core -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.datastax.cassandra</groupId>
<artifactId>cassandra-driver-core</artifactId>
<version>3.3.0</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.spark/spark-catalyst_2.10 -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
<artifactId>spark-catalyst_2.10</artifactId>
<version>2.2.0</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.spark/spark-sql_2.10 -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
<artifactId>spark-sql_2.10</artifactId>
<version>2.2.0</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.spark/spark-streaming-kafka -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
<artifactId>spark-streaming-kafka_2.11</artifactId>
<version>1.6.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.twitter</groupId>
<artifactId>bijection-avro_2.10</artifactId>
<version>0.9.2</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>${basedir}/src/main/resources</directory>
</resource>
</resources>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.6.2</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
</build>
</project>
You need to build "fat jar" with all dependencies included (for example, by using Maven Assembly plugin: example 1, example 2), or specify all additional dependencies as arguments to spark-shell.
Update: Forgot to add that core Spark dependencies should be marked as provided to avoid conflicts.

Selenium 3.7.1 gson dependency throwing a ClassNotFoundException

OS:
Windows 10
Selenium Version:
3.7.1 (JAVA)
Browser:
Chrome 62.0.3 (64bit)
Chrome driver 2.33.0
After upgrading to Selenium 3.7.1 and chrome driver 2.33.0 my tests are failing due to a Class not found exception on the gson jar. I can see the jar in my maven dependencies. I can get around this issue from inside my eclipse environment by adding the gson as an external jar but this limits me to only running from the IDE.
Has anyone else seen this issue or can anyone see where I'm gone wrong? As gson is included as a dependency of selenium I presume I shouldn't have to add the dependency to my pom. Any help would be great, thanks in advance
Regards
Donagh
Console output
org.testng.TestNGException:
Cannot instantiate class Reg_Editor.EditFunctionality
at org.testng.internal.ObjectFactoryImpl.newInstance(ObjectFactoryImpl.java:31)
at org.testng.internal.ClassHelper.createInstance1(ClassHelper.java:410)
at org.testng.internal.ClassHelper.createInstance(ClassHelper.java:323)
at org.testng.internal.ClassImpl.getDefaultInstance(ClassImpl.java:126)
at org.testng.internal.ClassImpl.getInstances(ClassImpl.java:191)
at org.testng.TestClass.getInstances(TestClass.java:99)
at org.testng.TestClass.initTestClassesAndInstances(TestClass.java:85)
at org.testng.TestClass.init(TestClass.java:77)
at org.testng.TestClass.<init>(TestClass.java:42)
at org.testng.TestRunner.initMethods(TestRunner.java:423)
at org.testng.TestRunner.init(TestRunner.java:250)
at org.testng.TestRunner.init(TestRunner.java:220)
at org.testng.TestRunner.<init>(TestRunner.java:169)
at org.testng.remote.support.RemoteTestNG6_10$1.newTestRunner(RemoteTestNG6_10.java:28)
at org.testng.remote.support.RemoteTestNG6_10$DelegatingTestRunnerFactory.newTestRunner(RemoteTestNG6_10.java:61)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner$ProxyTestRunnerFactory.newTestRunner(SuiteRunner.java:616)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.init(SuiteRunner.java:185)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.<init>(SuiteRunner.java:131)
at org.testng.TestNG.createSuiteRunner(TestNG.java:1383)
at org.testng.TestNG.createSuiteRunners(TestNG.java:1363)
at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:1217)
at org.testng.TestNG.runSuites(TestNG.java:1144)
at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:1115)
at org.testng.remote.AbstractRemoteTestNG.run(AbstractRemoteTestNG.java:114)
at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.initAndRun(RemoteTestNG.java:251)
at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.main(RemoteTestNG.java:77)
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
at org.testng.internal.ObjectFactoryImpl.newInstance(ObjectFactoryImpl.java:23)
... 25 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/google/gson/JsonParseException
at org.openqa.selenium.logging.profiler.HttpProfilerLogEntry.constructMessage(HttpProfilerLogEntry.java:37)
at org.openqa.selenium.logging.profiler.HttpProfilerLogEntry.<init>(HttpProfilerLogEntry.java:29)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:141)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:83)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:600)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:219)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:142)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:161)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:107)
at Util.EMDriverSingleton.setLocalDriver(EMDriverSingleton.java:81)
at Util.EMDriverSingleton.getDriver(EMDriverSingleton.java:46)
at Util.Supertest.<init>(Supertest.java:82)
at Reg_Editor.EditFunctionality.<init>(EditFunctionality.java:16)
... 30 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.google.gson.JsonParseException
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
... 43 more
POM
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.ExpertModels</groupId>
<artifactId>Expert_Models</artifactId>
<version>0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.6.0</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.19.1</version>
<configuration>
<browser>${browser}</browser>
<deployment>${deployment}</deployment>
<seleniumGrid>${seleniumGrid}</seleniumGrid>
<threadCount>0</threadCount>
<suiteXmlFiles>
<suiteXmlFile>testNG XML Files\${suiteXmlFile}</suiteXmlFile>
</suiteXmlFiles>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>Expert_Models</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>
<!--Surefire Reporting POM Dependency -->
<reporting>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-report-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.19.1</version>
<configuration>
<showSuccess>true</showSuccess>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jxr-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-project-info-reports-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.7</version>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</reporting>
<!--Selenium Dependency -->
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.rest-assured</groupId>
<artifactId>rest-assured</artifactId>
<version>3.0.3</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
<version>3.7.1</version>
</dependency>
<!--EXTENT REPORTS DEPENDENCY -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.relevantcodes</groupId>
<artifactId>extentreports</artifactId>
<version>2.41.2</version>
</dependency>
<!-- http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.servlet/jstl -->
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.squareup.okhttp3</groupId>
<artifactId>okhttp</artifactId>
<version>3.9.0</version>
</dependency>
<!--JUNIT DEPENDENCY -->
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.12</version>
</dependency>
<!--TESTNG DEPENDENCY -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.testng</groupId>
<artifactId>testng</artifactId>
<version>6.11</version>
</dependency>
<!--JXL DEPENDENCY -->
<dependency>
<groupId>net.sourceforge.jexcelapi</groupId>
<artifactId>jxl</artifactId>
<version>2.6</version>
</dependency>
<!--Chrome Driver for Maven -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-chrome-driver</artifactId>
<version>2.33.0</version>
</dependency>
<!--IE Edge Driver for Maven -->
<!-- <dependency> <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId> <artifactId>selenium-edge-driver</artifactId>
<version>2.53.0</version> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-edge-driver</artifactId>
<version>2.47.1</version>
</dependency>
<!-- IE Driver for Maven -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-ie-driver</artifactId>
<version>2.53.1</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
Remove the following from POM.xml
<!--Chrome Driver for Maven -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-chrome-driver</artifactId>
<version>2.33.0</version>
</dependency>
<!--IE Edge Driver for Maven -->
<!-- <dependency> <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId> <artifactId>selenium-edge-driver</artifactId>
<version>2.53.0</version> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-edge-driver</artifactId>
<version>2.47.1</version>
</dependency>
<!-- IE Driver for Maven -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-ie-driver</artifactId>
<version>2.53.1</version>
</dependency>
These drivers are transitive dependencies of selenium-java, so there are automatically resolved by Maven and there is no need to declare them in pom.xml.
If you declare them in th POM.XML, this causes versions conflict of these libraries. Mavens pick a version declared in the POM and ignores the nevest version.
If you are using eclipse, you can observe this on dependency hierarch tab, it looks like this

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.persistence.JoinColumn.foreignKey()

I am trying to deploy a spring boot application war file on standalone jetty. But when I start jetty, I run into this error
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.persistence.JoinColumn.foreignKey()Ljavax/persistence/ForeignKey;
at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationBinder.bindManyToOne(AnnotationBinder.java:2909) ~[hibernate-core-5.0.11.Final.jar:5.0.11.Final]
at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationBinder.bindOneToOne(AnnotationBinder.java:3086) ~[hibernate-core-5.0.11.Final.jar:5.0.11.Final]
at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationBinder.processElementAnnotations(AnnotationBinder.java:1809) ~[hibernate-core-5.0.11.Final.jar:5.0.11.Final]
at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationBinder.processIdPropertiesIfNotAlready(AnnotationBinder.java:911) ~[hibernate-core-5.0.11.Final.jar:5.0.11.Final]
at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationBinder.bindClass(AnnotationBinder.java:738) ~[hibernate-core-5.0.11.Final.jar:5.0.11.Final]
at org.hibernate.boot.model.source.internal.annotations.AnnotationMetadataSourceProcessorImpl.processEntityHierarchies(AnnotationMetadataSourceProcessorImpl.java:245) ~[hibernate-core-5.0.11.Final.jar:5.0.11.Final]
at org.hibernate.boot.model.process.spi.MetadataBuildingProcess$1.processEntityHierarchies(MetadataBuildingProcess.java:222) ~[hibernate-core-5.0.11.Final.jar:5.0.11.Final]
at org.hibernate.boot.model.process.spi.MetadataBuildingProcess.complete(MetadataBuildingProcess.java:265) ~[hibernate-core-5.0.11.Final.jar:5.0.11.Final]
at org.hibernate.jpa.boot.internal.EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.metadata(EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.java:847) ~[hibernate-entitymanager-5.0.11.Final.jar:5.0.11.Final]
at org.hibernate.jpa.boot.internal.EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.build(EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.java:874) ~[hibernate-entitymanager-5.0.11.Final.jar:5.0.11.Final]
at org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.SpringHibernateJpaPersistenceProvider.createContainerEntityManagerFactory(SpringHibernateJpaPersistenceProvider.java:60) ~[spring-orm-4.3.3.RELEASE.jar:4.3.3.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean.createNativeEntityManagerFactory(LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean.java:353) ~[spring-orm-4.3.3.RELEASE.jar:4.3.3.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.orm.jpa.AbstractEntityManagerFactoryBean.buildNativeEntityManagerFactory(AbstractEntityManagerFactoryBean.java:373) ~[spring-orm-4.3.3.RELEASE.jar:4.3.3.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.orm.jpa.AbstractEntityManagerFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(AbstractEntityManagerFactoryBean.java:362) ~[spring-orm-4.3.3.RELEASE.jar:4.3.3.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1642) ~[spring-beans-4.3.3.RELEASE.jar:4.3.3.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1579) ~[spring-beans-4.3.3.RELEASE.jar:4.3.3.RELEASE]
... 60 common frames omitted
Here is my pom.xml
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.example</groupId>
<artifactId>configservice</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>configservice Maven Webapp</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.4.1.RELEASE</version>
</parent>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat-juli</artifactId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat-jdbc</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-jetty</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- JPA Provider -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.openjpa</groupId>
<artifactId>openjpa-persistence</artifactId>
<version>2.4.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.openjpa</groupId>
<artifactId>openjpa-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.openjpa</groupId>
<artifactId>openjpa-all</artifactId>
<version>2.4.1</version>
</dependency>
<!-- MS SQL Server JDBC Driver -->
<!-- Manually install this plugin before adding in POM -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver</groupId>
<artifactId>sqljdbc42</artifactId>
<version>4.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
<artifactId>gson</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>repackage</goal>
</goals>
<phase>none</phase>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<packagingExcludes>WEB-INF/lib/tomcat-*.jar</packagingExcludes>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.openjpa</groupId>
<artifactId>openjpa-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4.1</version>
<configuration>
<includes>com.example.model/*.class</includes>
<excludes>**/entities/XML*.class</excludes>
<addDefaultConstructor>true</addDefaultConstructor>
<enforcePropertyRestrictions>true</enforcePropertyRestrictions>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>enhancer</id>
<phase>process-classes</phase>
<goals>
<goal>enhance</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.openjpa</groupId>
<artifactId>openjpa</artifactId>
<!-- set the version to be the same as the level in your runtime -->
<version>2.4.1</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>
</plugins>
<finalName>configservice</finalName>
</build>
I am using OpenJPA along with Spring-Data in this spring boot application. I have searched stackoverflow for similar errors and I found couple of resolutions from them and none of them has worked in my case. I can see the error is coming because somewhere JPA 2.0 is getting used. How can I find out which library is using JPA 2.0 and remove this error? If I run the same Spring boot app through maven with embedded jetty, it works perfectly fine.
I have looked at these links
Hibernate NoSuchMethodError
Spring boot NoSuchMethodError
If you want to use OpenJPA instead of Hibernate in Spring Boot you must exclude hibernate-entitymanager
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
And then configure OpenJPA as persistence provider.
Please find a example with EclipseLink here:
http://blog.marcnuri.com/spring-data-jpa-eclipselink-configuring-spring-boot-to-use-eclipselink-as-the-jpa-provider/

Runtime error while running a Spring Session + Spring Boot application

I am trying to run this Spring Session example available here but, I've used Maven instead of Gradle. I get the following error both while a) Running the WAR file and b) Deploying the WAR in an WildFly8.2 server
A quick search suggests that the problem could be conflicting versions among various dependencies quoted in the pom.xml.
What is the root cause & solution for this error ?
Error while Running or Deploying the WAR
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:483)
at org.springframework.boot.loader.MainMethodRunner.run(MainMethodRunner.java:53)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot instantiate interface org.springframework.boot.SpringApplicationRunListener : org.springframework.boot.context.event.EventPublishingRunListener
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.getSpringFactoriesInstances(SpringApplication.java:381)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.getRunListeners(SpringApplication.java:352)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:274)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:952)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:941)
at hello.Application.main(Application.java:25)
... 6 more
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:408)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.getSpringFactoriesInstances(SpringApplication.java:377)
... 11 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: INSTANCE
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.asUnmodifiableOrderedSet(SpringApplication.java:1031)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.getListeners(SpringApplication.java:930)
at org.springframework.boot.context.event.EventPublishingRunListener.<init>(EventPublishingRunListener.java:47)
... 16 more
Here is my complete POM.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>gs-spring-boot</artifactId>
<version>0.1.0</version>
<!-- ... -->
<packaging>war</packaging>
<!-- ... -->
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.1.10.RELEASE</version>
</parent>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
<!-- <exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions> -->
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- <dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
<version>3.1.1.RELEASE</version>
</dependency> -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.session</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-session-data-redis</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0.RELEASE</version>
<type>pom</type>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
<version>4.1.3.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-web</artifactId>
<version>3.2.5.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-config</artifactId>
<version>3.2.5.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.orange.redis-embedded</groupId>
<artifactId>embedded-redis</artifactId>
<version>0.5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
</properties>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>integration-test</goal>
<goal>verify</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
I see a few places for cleanup:
You have conflicting Spring versions in your pom. Specifically spring-web-4.1.3 is explicitly listed and Spring Boot 1.1.10 brings in Spring 4.0.8. Remove every version from your pom (except Spring Session & embedded-redis) which are not yet managed by Spring Boot) and let the spring-boot-starter-parent manage it
Remove the spring-web dependency all together (it is already included in spring-boot-starter-web)
Replace the security dependencies with spring-boot-starter-security
You can find the summary below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>gs-spring-boot</artifactId>
<version>0.1.0</version>
<!-- ... -->
<packaging>war</packaging>
<!-- ... -->
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.1.10.RELEASE</version>
</parent>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.session</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-session-data-redis</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0.RELEASE</version>
<type>pom</type>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.orange.redis-embedded</groupId>
<artifactId>embedded-redis</artifactId>
<version>0.5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
</properties>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>integration-test</goal>
<goal>verify</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>

IncompatibleClassChangeError with struts2 , spring hibernate integration?

Struts2 spring plugin is causing IncompatibleClassChangeError , I have tried to exculde spring core, still exception is coming, Below is my pom.xml?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.akhi</groupId>
<artifactId>notifier</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>Struts 2 Blank Webapp</name>
<!-- Shared version number properties -->
<properties>
<struts2.version>2.1.8.1</struts2.version>
<spring.version>2.5.6</spring.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<!-- Struts2 dependencies -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.struts</groupId>
<artifactId>struts2-core</artifactId>
<version>${struts2.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.struts</groupId>
<artifactId>struts2-tiles-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${struts2.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.struts</groupId>
<artifactId>struts2-config-browser-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${struts2.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Struts2 dependencies End -->
<!-- Struts 2 + Spring plugins -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.struts</groupId>
<artifactId>struts2-spring-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${struts2.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Struts 2 + Spring plugins End -->
<!-- Spring ORM framework -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-hibernate3</artifactId>
<version>2.0.8</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.transaction</groupId>
<artifactId>jta</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Spring ORM framework Ends -->
<!-- Hibernate uses slf4j for logging, for our purposes here use the simple
backend -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
<version>1.6.4</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Hibernate framework -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-commons-annotations</artifactId>
<version>3.2.0.Final</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-annotations</artifactId>
<version>3.5.6-Final</version>
</dependency>
<!-- javax persistence -->
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.persistence</groupId>
<artifactId>persistence-api</artifactId>
<version>1.0.2</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Hibernate library dependecy start -->
<dependency>
<groupId>dom4j</groupId>
<artifactId>dom4j</artifactId>
<version>1.6.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-collections</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>
<version>3.2.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<version>5.1.9</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Hibernate library dependecy end -->
<!-- Java EE -->
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>3.0.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>jsp-api</artifactId>
<version>2.0</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- Java EE End -->
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.mail</groupId>
<artifactId>mail</artifactId>
<version>1.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
<version>1.1.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>displaytag</groupId>
<artifactId>displaytag</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Test -->
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.7</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
<version>1.2.16</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.quartz-scheduler</groupId>
<artifactId>quartz</artifactId>
<version>2.1.5</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId>
<version>6.1.21</version>
<configuration>
<scanIntervalSeconds>10</scanIntervalSeconds>
<webDefaultXml>src/main/resources/webdefault.xml</webDefaultXml>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3.2</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.6</source>
<target>1.6</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat6-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.0</version>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.0</version>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>JBoss repository</id>
<url>http://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public-jboss/</url>
</repository>
<repository>
<id>org.springframework.maven.snapshot</id>
<name>Maven Central Compatible Spring Snapshot Repository</name>
<url>http:// maven.springframework.org/snapshot</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
The exception trace is
2013-04-19T23:36:39.014+0530 INFO [main ] tListableBeanFactory Destroying singletons in org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory#5230b601: defining beans [userService,userService2,userSpringAction,welcomeUserSpringAction,org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer#0,dataSource,sessionFactory]; root of factory hierarchy
2013-04-19T23:36:39.015+0530 ERROR [main ] ontext.ContextLoader Context initialization failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'sessionFactory' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: Implementing class
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1338)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:473)
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:222)
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:728)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:380)
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.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.startContext(ContextHandler.java:548)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.Context.startContext(Context.java:136)
at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext(WebAppContext.java:1250)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.doStart(ContextHandler.java:517)
at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java:467)
at org.mortbay.jetty.plugin.Jetty6PluginWebAppContext.doStart(Jetty6PluginWebAppContext.java:115)
at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:50)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.doStart(HandlerCollection.java:152)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.doStart(ContextHandlerCollection.java:156)
at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:50)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.doStart(HandlerCollection.java:152)
at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:50)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.doStart(HandlerWrapper.java:130)
at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.doStart(Server.java:224)
at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:50)
at org.mortbay.jetty.plugin.Jetty6PluginServer.start(Jetty6PluginServer.java:132)
at org.mortbay.jetty.plugin.AbstractJettyMojo.startJetty(AbstractJettyMojo.java:441)
at org.mortbay.jetty.plugin.AbstractJettyMojo.execute(AbstractJettyMojo.java:383)
at org.mortbay.jetty.plugin.AbstractJettyRunMojo.execute(AbstractJettyRunMojo.java:210)
at org.mortbay.jetty.plugin.Jetty6RunMojo.execute(Jetty6RunMojo.java:184)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:490)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:694)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeStandaloneGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:569)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:539)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:387)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:348)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:180)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:328)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:138)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:362)
at org.apache.maven.cli.compat.CompatibleMain.main(CompatibleMain.java:60)
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:597)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375)
You cannot mix Struts 2 versions like that; you are using Struts 2.1.8.1 and trying to use the Struts 2 Tiles Plugin version 2.3.4 (and Spring Plugin 2.1.8) and a few different versions of Spring.
You must not arbitrarily pick and choose versions; this is one thing Maven is for: allowing versions to specify their own dependencies instead of trying to guess which versions are compatible.
First, use the same version of every Struts 2 artifact.
Second, do the same with Spring. You should not, however, need to specify the Spring versions if you're using the Struts 2 Spring plugin, since it will declare its own dependencies.
Once you start mixing and matching you'll often need to start specifying a lot of exclusions across various artifacts. Unless you're very aware of what you're doing, it's best not to do this.

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