NullPointerException com.liferay.portal.spring.util.SpringFactoryImpl.setBeanDefinitions - spring

I'm using springFramework and I try to setBeanDefinitions, the problem is that this methode need a Map beanDefinition as a param... could U tell me plz how I could instantiate this param?
NullPointerException at com.liferay.portal.spring.util.SpringFactoryImpl.setBeanDefinitions(SpringFactoryImpl.java:56)
additional information:
I try to deploy a liferay project without using liferay configuration files (only springFramework libraries), I created my own sessionFactory, my own dataSource ... etc!!
when I run the program, I'm able to create dataBase Schema basing on portlet-hbm.xml information... well now I try to instantiate beans for portal-spring.xml.. (which are xxxxpersistance.java)! those latters told me that they use 'com.liferay.portal.kernel.dao.orm.SessionFactory' as a required type and it can not convert property value of type 'org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl'!! so I tried to use the liferay libraries only for those beans and I try to instanciate them manually... but I wasn't able to setBeanDefinitions cause I need a Map beanDefinition as a param... I don't know if there is a way to get them using sessionFactory or not!!
Thanks again

You only mention junit in the tags to your question. I'd recommend to write unit tests without relying on the whole Liferay infrastructure. That will tremendously lower your required setup efforts and simplify your life a lot.

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Spring.datasource.initialize=false not working

I am working on spring boot and batch application.
Due to batch, the application tries to connect to datasource
with spring-boot:run.
I want to stop that and tried spring.datasource.initialize=false
Along with this also put spring.batch.job.enabled=false
While the second one works fine, it seems the first one is ignored.
Could someone let me know if there is a way to stop db connection on startup?
Thanks in advance
The problem is, that spring/spring-boot loads the whole spring-context when it is "booted". This means, that all defined spring-beans are loaded into the spring-context during this boot-phase. In the case of spring-batch, this also means that the datasource bean is loaded and, if not turned off by "spring.batch.initializer.enabled=false", the spring-batch tables are initialized.
Generally, you cannot prevent this from happening as soon as you have added your spring-batch-starter to your maven dependencies.
Moreover, I don't understand why you want to prevent this from happening. It is just initialisation taking place and, provided that everything is configured correctly, this shouldn't be a problem at all.
Nonetheless, if you really want to stop the datasource from beeing initialized, you could try the following approach. However, I don't know if this will work.
Spring-Batch needs a datasource that is registered under the name "dataSource" in the spring-context. If no spring-bean with that name is found, it creates its own. But if you provide your own implementation/configuration for it, it will use your spring bean.
What you need to do is, to provide a proxy for a datasource that is loaded lazily and then register it under the name "dataSource" in the context:
#Configuration
public class MySetUp {
#Bean
public DataSource dataSource() {
// ... create your "lazy initializing" datasource
}
}
But - and let me stress that - this nothing that I would recommend and I don't see a good reason, why this should be necessary to do.
Furthermore, you mention that you only want load "initial static index page" (I assume, you are talking about html, right?). However, I don't see a "batch" use case, which should display html-pages. It would probably be better to have two different applications in this case.
Probably you could provide some more information about your use case.
As I understand, you don't want to prevent database connection during application startup.
Instead, you want to prevent execution of batch scripts.
Correct me, please, if I got it wrong.
To prevent execution of batch scripts set:
spring.batch.initializer.enabled=false

Unable to veto a stage-specific #Specializes class in Websphere 8.0

In my first foray into the world of JSF and CDI, I've been trying to use the #Specializes annotation to override behaviour in a managed bean in unit tests only. We have the MyFaces CODI jars in the WEB-INF/lib, and the unit test aspect works just fine, i.e. my Mock specialization is picked up and used:
#ProjectStageActivated(ProjectStage.UnitTest.class)
#Specializes
class MockCustomerSearchScreenBean extends CustomerSearchScreenBean {
...
That works fine when the project stage really is unittest, but when it's anything else, the WAR startup fails with
org.apache.webbeans.exception.WebBeansDeploymentException: org.apache.webbeans.exception.inject.InconsistentSpecializationException: Specialized bean for class : class bla.bla.MockCustomerSearchScreenBean is not enabled in the deployment.
at org.apache.webbeans.config.BeansDeployer.checkSpecializations(BeansDeployer.java:653)
I know the #Observes ProcessAnnotatedType is firing during bean discovery because I can see the veto flag has been set on the ProcessAnnotatedType by the CODI ActivationExtension, and I also wrote my own extension which explicitly vetos the Mock version, but the container is still determined to try and use the specialized version and not the 'normal' one. I also tried wrapped the AnnotatedType to not advertise the #Specialization annotation.
There's no simple way for me to not deploy the mock subclass to my desktop server either.
Is there any way to persuade WebSphere's version of open web beans to ignore the Specialization based on project stage (or some other factor I can control)?
WAS 8.0 uses a quite old version of OpenWebBeans. This issue was fixed long ago in OpenWebBeans. I would move to 8.5+. And/or try the same with #Alternative (but with BDA switched off).

Testing Hibernate Mappings

I'm using Hibernate to map objects to a legacy schema which contains some ginormous tables via annotations (as XML files are so 2003). Since these classes are so large, yes I occasionally make an occasional typo, which Hibernate doesn't bother to tell me about until I try to run it.
Here's what I've tried:
One: Setting hbm2ddl.auto to "validate":
This causes the String values of the class to validate against varchar(255). Since many of the column types in the database are CHAR(n), this blows up. I would have to add the columnDefinition="CHAR(n)" to several hundred mappings.
Two: Using Unitils.
Importing these via Maven causes imports of dependency libraries which blow up other sections of code. Example: I'm using Hibernate 4.1, but Unitils imported Hibernate 3.2.5 and blew up a UserType.
So, is there another way to do this? I looked at the Unitils code to see if I could simply yank the sections I needed (I do that with apache-commons fairly often when I just need a single method), but that's not a simple task.
Hibernate is configured via a Spring application context.
Any ideas out there?
I would write tests against an in-memory database (HSQLDB, H2) using the Spring testing framework. You'll quickly see any mapping errors when you attempt to run queries against the tables.
The test class would look something like this:
#RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
#ContextConfiguration(classes=MyTestConfig.class)
#TransactionConfiguration(transactionManager="txMgr", defaultRollback=true)
public class MyTest {
#Autowired
private SessionFactory sessionFactory;
// class body...
}
I would configure Hibernate to auto-deploy the tables as part of the tests.

XSLT ClassCastException in WebSphere when Spring tries to create an AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter

When starting WebSphere, I get this exception:
Could not instantiate bean class [org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter]:
Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.ClassCastException:
com.ibm.xtq.xslt.jaxp.compiler.TransformerFactoryImpl incompatible with
javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory
Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: com.ibm.xtq.xslt.jaxp.compiler.TransformerFactoryImpl
incompatible with javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory
at javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at org.springframework.http.converter.xml.AbstractXmlHttpMessageConverter.<init>(AbstractXmlHttpMessageConverter.java:47)
at org.springframework.http.converter.xml.SourceHttpMessageConverter.<init>(SourceHttpMessageConverter.java:45)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.<init>(AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.java:197)
This doesn't seem have any impact on any beans in my applicationContext.xml but it's still odd. For me, this looks as if IBM classes are leaking into my application.
How can I fix this? I already set the option "Access to internal server classes" to "Restrict".
It was indeed a class-loading issue, however this cannot be solved by changing class-loader settings.
The problem was that the xml-apis and javax.xml jars were being imported over some maven dependencies.
Since we already set the class loader policies for the application to PARENT_LAST, the javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory was being loaded from the WebApp-Class loader from our jar files.
However its implementation 'com.ibm.xtq.xslt.jaxp.compiler.TransformerFactoryImpl' was coming from the server class loader, this one was linked to the javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory provided by the JDK/JRE.
Since the classes were loaded from different sources a ClassCastException was thrown.
Removing all dependencies to xml-apis / xerces / javax.xml jars solved the problem.
Since these APIs are now part of the JDK they no longer need to be imported.
... and if you wonder why I know so much about this issue: I work together with Aaron. ;)
I can't speak for Restrict as I have no personal experience with it,But I think the problem is more to do with IBM Class Loader. The class you are referring to is part of IBM Java implementation of TransformerFactory, I think you can try one of the following to solve this issue on hand
Either change the server class loader policy to PARENT_LAST (This way class loader will find the class from application's local class path, before going to up the chain all the way to java run time)
The other option would be look at the jaxp.properties file, I think it is located in (was_root\java\jre\lib), I only read about this option never actually used it
Why do you say IBM classes are leaking into your application?
The TransformerFactory is asked to create a newInstance. It follows a sequence of steps to determine which TransformerFactory to use. If none of the config is specified, it simply chooses to use the default factory.
Here is the javadoc for TransformerFactory:
http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/javax/xml/transform/TransformerFactory.html#newInstance()
What is the OS ? Is that AIX?
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/aix/j664/sdkguide.aix64.html
Looking at this doc (link above) for AIX it tells me that this is the default Impl:
javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory
Selects the XSLT processor. Possible values are:
com.ibm.xtq.xslt.jaxp.compiler.TransformerFactoryImpl
Use the XL TXE-J compiler. This value is the default.
Post back additional information so that we can try and troubleshoot this.
HTH
Manglu

ZK - inject Spring beans directly into ZK beans

Is it possible to inject Spring beans directly into ZK backing beans?
In tutorials such as this I've found only an example, where application context was extracted manually from web application complex, which very unelegant and unflexible.
In fact, the VariableResolver is working, it is however hard to find, how to use it properly.
First, I had to include header in .zul file:
<?variable-resolver class="org.zkoss.zkplus.spring.DelegatingVariableResolver"?>
Then, use ${controllerBeanName} in apply attribute, f.e.
<window id="win" title="Typy mieszkaƄ" width="750px" border="normal"
apply="${appartmentTypeController}">
In my case, appartmentTypeController is bean extending GeneralForwardComposer, defined in spring context.
did you try the Variable-Resolver ?? i found an article about it
http://books.zkoss.org/wiki/Small_Talks/2010/December/Integrate_ZK_Spreadsheet2.0.0_with_Spring
May ZK-DL http://zk.datalite.cz/zk-dl library help you? It takes it's own approach to Spring integration, not the original ZK way.

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