java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.persistence.JoinColumn.foreignKey() - spring-boot

Question

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

Answer 1

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/