Integrating JTA, Hibernate 4 and Spring 4 with WebLogic - spring

Question

I am having serious issues with implementing a JTA / Hibernate / Spring application (with WebLogic 10.3 for the server). I originally was using the Spring programmatic configuration, but have moved it over to the Spring XML configuration to filter out potential problems. It was working perfectly when I used the HibernateTransactionManager instead of the JtaTransactionManager, but now is not finding the Session for the thread.
When I look at the sessionFactory it is not null, but getSession() does not return a session.
Could you assist me in troubleshooting this? Thank you!
My Dao implementation:
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
import java.util.List;
...
import org.hibernate.Criteria;
import org.hibernate.Hibernate;
import org.hibernate.Session;
import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
import org.hibernate.criterion.Restrictions;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Repository;
import mil.navy.navsupbsc.utilities.HibernateConfiguration;
#Repository
public class ContactDAOImpl implements ContactDAO {
#Autowired
SessionFactory sessionFactory;
public Session getSession() {
try {
sessionFactory.openSession();
return sessionFactory.getCurrentSession();
} catch (NullPointerException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
throw e;
}
}
#SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
public List<Contact> listContact() {
List<Contact> contactList = getSession().createCriteria(Contact.class)
.list();
...
My Spring-Servlet.xml file is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee" xmlns:lang="http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang"
xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util" xmlns:c="http://www.springframework.org/schema/c"
xmlns:cache="http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache" xmlns:jdbc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc"
xmlns:task="http://www.springframework.org/schema/task" xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc/spring-jdbc-4.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang/spring-lang.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-4.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/task http://www.springframework.org/schema/task/spring-task-4.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache/spring-cache-4.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">
<bean id="messageSource"
class="org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource">
<property name="basename" value="classpath:messages" />
<property name="defaultEncoding" value="UTF-8" />
</bean>
<bean id="sessionFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="packagesToScan" value="mil.navy.navsupbsc.entity" />
<property name="hibernateProperties">
<props>
<prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">update</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle10gDialect</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.driverClassName">oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.format_sql">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.use_sql_comments">true</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" />
<context:component-scan base-package="mil.navy.navsupbsc" />
<tx:annotation-driven />
<jee:jndi-lookup id="NCS" jndi-name="NCS" resource-ref="false"></jee:jndi-lookup>
<tx:jta-transaction-manager />
<bean id="viewResolver"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
<property name="viewClass">
<value>
org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesView
</value>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="tilesConfigurer"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesConfigurer">
<property name="definitions">
<list>
<value>/WEB-INF/tiles.xml</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
</beans>
My web.xml file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" metadata-complete="false" version="2.5">
<display-name>Contact Management Suite</display-name>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>contact</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<resource-ref>
<description>NCS</description>
<res-ref-name>NCS</res-ref-name>
<res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
<res-auth>Container</res-auth>
</resource-ref>
</web-app>
And my weblogic.xml file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<wls:weblogic-web-app
xmlns:wls="http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/weblogic-web-app"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/weblogic-web-app http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/weblogic-web-app/1.2/weblogic-web-app.xsd">
<wls:container-descriptor>
<wls:prefer-application-packages>
<wls:package-name>org.hibernate.*</wls:package-name>
</wls:prefer-application-packages>
</wls:container-descriptor>
<wls:weblogic-version>10.3.5</wls:weblogic-version>
<wls:context-root>ncms2</wls:context-root>
<wls:resource-description>
<wls:res-ref-name>dbDataSource</wls:res-ref-name>
<wls:jndi-name>NCS</wls:jndi-name>
</wls:resource-description>
</wls:weblogic-web-app>

Answer 1

Based on the answer from #M. Deinum (if you put your comments in an answer, I'll mark it as correct), I have figured out the problem.
The solution was to add the data source (referencing the JNDI data source I specified earlier) as <property name="dataSource" ref="NCS"/>. I also reference the jtaTransactionManager as <prop key="hibernate.transaction.jta.platform">org.hibernate.service.jta.platform.internal.WeblogicJtaPlatform</prop>
NOTE: for other servers other than WebLogic, replace
.WebLogicJtaPlatform with your specific server's JtaPlatform name.
Specific implementations can be found at
http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/4.1/javadocs/org/hibernate/service/jta/platform/internal/AbstractJtaPlatform.html
Finally, I changed the sessionFactory.openSession() to sessionFactory.getSession in my DaoImplementation file.
I hope this helps someone else as well!
Spring-Servlet.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" xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee" xmlns:lang="http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang"
xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util" xmlns:c="http://www.springframework.org/schema/c"
xmlns:cache="http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache" xmlns:jdbc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc"
xmlns:task="http://www.springframework.org/schema/task" xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc/spring-jdbc-4.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang/spring-lang.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-4.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/task http://www.springframework.org/schema/task/spring-task-4.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache/spring-cache-4.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">
<bean id="messageSource"
class="org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource">
<property name="basename" value="classpath:messages" />
<property name="defaultEncoding" value="UTF-8" />
</bean>
<bean id="sessionFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="packagesToScan" value="[app.package].navsupbsc.entity" />
<property name="dataSource" ref="NCS"/>
<property name="jtaTransactionManager" ref="transactionManager" />
<property name="hibernateProperties">
<props>
<prop key="hibernate.transaction.jta.platform">org.hibernate.service.jta.platform.internal.WeblogicJtaPlatform
</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">update</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle10gDialect</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.driverClassName">oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.format_sql">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.use_sql_comments">true</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" />
<context:component-scan base-package="[app.package.scanpath]" />
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" />
<jee:jndi-lookup id="NCS" jndi-name="NCS" resource-ref="false">
</jee:jndi-lookup>
<tx:jta-transaction-manager id="transactionManager" />
<bean id="viewResolver"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
<property name="viewClass">
<value>
org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesView
</value>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="tilesConfigurer"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesConfigurer">
<property name="definitions">
<list>
<value>/WEB-INF/tiles.xml</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
</beans>
Sources:
http://koenserneels.blogspot.de/2012/05/migrating-from-hibernate-3-to-4-with.html
http://devblog.x-sphere.com/2008/01/23/websphere-jndi-spring-framework-hibernate/ (NOTE: I'm using <tx:jta-transaction-manager/> in place of the manual transaction manager shown in the link