Configure hibernate 3 in Jboss7 - maven

Question

I'm trying to set up a Spring MVC + Hibernate WAR for deployment to Jboss 7.1.1 Final. My application using Hibernate 3.6.1 & So far my understanding is that Hibernate 4 is packaged with the AS and is the default persistence provider. I am not using persistent.xml file configuration.
I have followed all steps required to setup Hibernate 3 in JBoss.
Go to the AS installation and change into the modules/org folder.
Created folder for slot 3 to hold Hibernate 3
Copied the Hibernate3 jars into this new AS/modules/org/hibernate/3 folder
(hibernate3-core.jar, hibernate3-commons-annotations.jar, hibernate3-entitymanager.jar, dom4j.jar, slf4j.jar, slf4j-api.jar, commons-collections.jar, antlr.jar, slf4j-api.jar, commons-collections.jar, antlr.jar and any other jar needed for Hibernate 3)
Created the AS/modules/org/hibernate/3/module.xml file with contents:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<module xmlns="urn:jboss:module:1.0" name="org.hibernate" slot="3">
<resources>
<resource-root path="hibernate3-core.jar"/>
<resource-root path="hibernate3-commons-annotations.jar"/>
<resource-root path="hibernate3-entitymanager.jar"/>
<resource-root path="javassist-3.12.0.GA.jar"/>
<resource-root path="antlr-2.7.6.jar"/>
<resource-root path="commons-collections-3.1.jar"/>
<resource-root path="dom4j-1.6.1.jar"/>
<!-- Insert other Hibernate 3 jars to be used here -->
</resources>
<dependencies>
<module name="org.jboss.as.jpa.hibernate" slot="3"/>
<module name="asm.asm"/>
<module name="javax.api"/>
<module name="javax.persistence.api"/>
<module name="javax.transaction.api"/>
<module name="javax.validation.api"/>
<module name="org.apache.ant"/>
<module name="org.infinispan"/>
<module name="org.javassist"/>
<module name="org.slf4j"/>
</dependencies>
</module>
My pom.xml(part):
<!-- Hibernate dependencies -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
<version>3.6.6.Final</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>xml-apis</groupId>
<artifactId>xml-apis</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-annotations</artifactId>
<version>3.5.6-Final</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.persistence</groupId>
<artifactId>persistence-api</artifactId>
<version>1.0.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0.ga</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate.common</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-commons-annotations</artifactId>
<version>4.0.5.Final</version>
</dependency>
My hibernate-context.xml(Part)
<jpa:repositories base-package="com.gea.dvr.repository" />
<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean"
p:dataSource-ref="dataSource"
p:configLocation="${hibernate.config}"
p:packagesToScan="com.iana.dver"/>
<bean id="dataSource" class="com.mchange.v2.c3p0.ComboPooledDataSource" destroy-method="close"
p:driverClass="${app.jdbc.driverClassName}"
p:jdbcUrl="${app.jdbc.url}"
p:user="${app.jdbc.username}"
p:password="${app.jdbc.password}"
p:idleConnectionTestPeriod="30"
p:maxPoolSize="100"
p:maxStatements="50"
p:minPoolSize="10"
p:maxIdleTime="60" />
<!-- Declare a transaction manager-->
<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager"
p:sessionFactory-ref="sessionFactory" />
<!-- Specify our ORM vendor -->
<bean id="hibernateVendor" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter"
p:showSql="false"/>
My hibernate.cfg.xml
<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory name="sessionFactory">
<!-- We're using MySQL database so the dialect needs to MySQL as well-->
<property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</property>
<!-- Enable this to see the SQL statements in the logs-->
<property name="show_sql">false</property>
<!-- This will drop our existing database and re-create a new one.
Existing data will be deleted! -->
<!-- <property name="hbm2ddl.auto">update</property>-->
<mapping class="com.gea.dvr.domain.DvrUserType"/>
<mapping class="com.gea.dvr.domain.DvrUsers"/>
<mapping class="com.gea.dvr.domain.DvrConfig"/>
<mapping class="com.gea.dvr.domain.DvrDetail"/>
<mapping class="com.gea.dvr.domain.DvrFiles"/>
<mapping class="com.gea.dvr.domain.DvrNotif"/>
<mapping class="com.gea.dvr.domain.UserLogin"/>
</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>
I have provided all required java still I am still getting following exception,
Can anyone help me to setup hibernate 3 related changes in JBoss?
11:03:14,597 ERROR [org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader] (MSC service thread 1-3) Context initialization failed: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'hibernateVendor' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/hibernate-context.xml]: Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/hibernate/ejb/HibernatePersistence

Answer 1

Since you get a java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError (and not a ClassNotFoundException), it's probably some sort of classloading issue.
try adding hibernate-entitymanager dependency that will solve your problem.
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
<version>${hibernate.version}</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>cglib</groupId>
<artifactId>cglib</artifactId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<groupId>dom4j</groupId>
<artifactId>dom4j</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>