NoSuchMethodError: XMLContext$Default.getDelimitedIdentifier() in EAP 6

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Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
    • 6.x
  • Hibernate
    • 4.x

Issue

Encountering the following failure when migrating to EAP 6 from EAP 5

... JBWEB000287: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'sessionFactory' defined in ".../META-INF/spring/integration-data.xml": Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.hibernate.cfg.annotations.reflection.XMLContext$Default.getDelimitedIdentifier()Ljava/lang/Boolean;
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1420) [spring-beans-3.0.4.RELEASE.jar:3.0.4.RELEASE]
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:519) [spring-beans-3.0.4.RELEASE.jar:3.0.4.RELEASE]
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:456) [spring-beans-3.0.4.RELEASE.jar:3.0.4.RELEASE]

Resolution

Root Cause

  • The Spring code relies on Hibernate 3 but Hibernate 4 is shipped with EAP 6
  • Use of Hibernate 3 in EAP 6 is unsupported

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