Error while deployment java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence - spring

Question

I am Hibernate 4 Final and Spring 3.
When I am deploying an application to Weblogic 10.3.6 using Maven 3 I am getting the following excpetions although I have included hibernate-entitymanager in pom
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence
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">
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>prime-repo</id>
<name>PrimeFaces Maven Repository</name>
<url>http://repository.primefaces.org</url>
<layout>default</layout>
</repository>
</repositories>
<properties>
<spring.version>3.1.1.RELEASE</spring.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<!-- Spring 3 dependencies -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- JSF library -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.faces</groupId>
<artifactId>jsf-api</artifactId>
<version>2.1.6</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.faces</groupId>
<artifactId>jsf-impl</artifactId>
<version>2.1.6</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Primefaces library -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.primefaces</groupId>
<artifactId>primefaces</artifactId>
<version>3.4.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.primefaces.themes</groupId>
<artifactId>redmond</artifactId>
<version>1.0.8</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Hibernate library -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
<version>4.1.0.Final</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javassist</groupId>
<artifactId>javassist</artifactId>
<version>3.12.1.GA</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.inject</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.inject</artifactId>
<version>1</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Oracle Java Connector library -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.oracle</groupId>
<artifactId>ojdbc6</artifactId>
<version>11.2.0.3</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>c3p0</groupId>
<artifactId>c3p0</artifactId>
<version>0.9.1.2</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Log4j library -->
<dependency>
<groupId>log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
<version>1.2.16</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.testng</groupId>
<artifactId>testng</artifactId>
<version>6.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-jpamodelgen</artifactId>
<version>1.2.0.Final</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
<version>4.1.0.Final</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate.javax.persistence</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-jpa-2.0-api</artifactId>
<version>1.0.1.Final</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.myfaces.extensions.cdi.core</groupId>
<artifactId>myfaces-extcdi-core-api</artifactId>
<version>1.0.5</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-ehcache</artifactId>
<version>4.0.1.Final</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javaee</groupId>
<artifactId>javaee-api</artifactId>
<version>5</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
</resource>
</resources>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.7</source>
<target>1.7</target>
<compilerArgument>-proc:none</compilerArgument>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.bsc.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-processor-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.0.6</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>process</id>
<goals>
<goal>process</goal>
</goals>
<phase>generate-sources</phase>
<configuration>
<!-- source output directory -->
<outputDirectory>target/metamodel</outputDirectory>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>com.oracle.weblogic</groupId>
<artifactId>weblogic-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>10.3.6.0</version>
<configuration>
<adminurl>t3://myserver:7001</adminurl>
<user>user</user>
<password>welcome1</password>
<upload>true</upload>
<action>deploy</action>
<remote>true</remote>
<verbose>true</verbose>
<source>/apps.war</source>
<name>apps</name>
<targets>mytarget</targets>
</configuration>
<!--
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>install</phase>
<goals>
<goal>deploy</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>-->
</plugin>
</plugins>
<finalName>apps</finalName>
</build>
</project>

Answer 1

In order to work JPA 2.0 and Hibernate properly apart from enabling JPA 2.0 in Weblogic 10.3.6 as mentioned in this document, we need to have the following in Weblogic.xml
<container-descriptor>
<prefer-web-inf-classes>true</prefer-web-inf-classes>
</container-descriptor>
By including the above in Weblogic.xml solved the issue. More details can be found from
Oracle Support - JPA2 On Weblogic 10.3.5.0 using Hibernate implementation
Note 1487264.1