Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Failed to link when running JUnit tests through Arquilliqn for a Maven project - eclipse

So I'm trying to test a maven project using Arquilian on Eclipse for a school project, however when I try to run the test through mvn clean test I get the following stacktrace:
Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 1, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 3.361 sec {"Operation step-1" => {"WFLYCTL0080: Failed services" => {"jboss.deployment.unit.\"testCapAnalogique.war\".POST_MODULE" => "WFLYSRV0153: Failed to process phase POST_MODULE of deployment \"testCapAnalogique.war\"
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: WFLYSRV0177: Error getting reflective information for class fr.esisar.locVoiture.stateless.CapAnalogiqueStateless with ClassLoader ModuleClassLoader for Module \"deployment.testCapAnalogique.war\" from Service Module Loader
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Failed to link fr/esisar/locVoiture/entities/CapAnalogique (Module \"deployment.testCapAnalogique.war\" from Service Module Loader): fr/esisar/locVoiture/entities/Capteur"}}}}
I'm using the following arquillian.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<arquillian xmlns="http://jboss.org/schema/arquillian"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://jboss.org/schema/arquillian
http://jboss.org/schema/arquillian/arquillian_1_0.xsd">
<defaultProtocol type="Servlet 3.0" />
<container qualifier="jboss" default="true">
<configuration>
<property name="jbossHome">home/user/CS513-Archive/wildfly-
16.0.0.Final</property>
</configuration>
</container>
</arquillian>
And the following test-persistence.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence version="2.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_0.xsd">
<persistence-unit name="test">
<jta-data-source>java:jboss/datasources/ExampleDS</jta-data-source>
<properties>
<property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="create-drop"/>
<property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="true"/>
</properties>
</persistence-unit>
</persistence>
and the test-ds.xml is as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<datasources xmlns="http://www.jboss.org/ironjacamar/schema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.jboss.org/ironjacamar/schema http://docs.jboss.org/ironjacamar/schema/datasources_1_0.xsd">
<!-- The datasource is bound into JNDI at this location. We reference
this in META-INF/test-persistence.xml -->
<datasource jndi-name="java:jboss/datasources/BeanValidationQuickstartTestDS"
pool-name="bean-validation-quickstart-test" enabled="true"
use-java-context="true">
<connection-url>jdbc:h2:mem:bean-validation-quickstart-test;DB_CLOSE_DELAY=-1</connection-url>
<driver>h2</driver>
<security>
<user-name>sa</user-name>
<password>sa</password>
</security>
</datasource>
with the dependencies in pom.xml:
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.12</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.jboss.arquillian.junit</groupId>
<artifactId>arquillian-junit-container</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.jboss.arquillian.protocol</groupId>
<artifactId>arquillian-protocol-servlet</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.jboss.arquillian</groupId>
<artifactId>arquillian-bom</artifactId>
<version>1.1.13.Final</version>
<scope>import</scope>
<type>pom</type>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>arq-managed</id>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.wildfly.arquillian</groupId>
<artifactId>wildfly-arquillian-container-managed</artifactId>
<version>2.1.0.Final</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</profile>
<profile>
<id>arq-remote</id>
<activation>
<activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
</activation>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.wildfly.arquillian</groupId>
<artifactId>wildfly-arquillian-container-remote</artifactId>
<version>2.1.0.Final</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</profile>
</profiles>
Please note I'm new to Maven and arquillian and I may be missing something trivial.

So the problem was that I'm adding classes in my createArchiveTest() function as resources in the ShrinkWrap create method, that extend and implement other classes and interfaces. Turns out all of them actually need to be passed as resources.
Say you want to test a class called StudentA, but this class extends another class called Student and the Student class implements a Person interface, all three need to be passed as resources.

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I'm a J2EE noob (.Net stack) and am at my wits end trying to get a basic tutorial off the ground. I'm using Eclipse with Tomcat 8.5 set up.
I keep seeing this error in the console when trying to launch my application...
INFO: Initializing Spring root WebApplicationContext
09:39:42,442 ERROR ContextLoader:351 - Context initialization failed
org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Failed to instantiate [org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/logging/LogFactory
at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:159)
at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:104)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:380)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:313)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:107)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4727)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5189)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1403)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1393)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/logging/LogFactory
at org.springframework.core.io.support.PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver.<clinit>(PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver.java:169)
at org.springframework.web.context.support.AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.getResourcePatternResolver(AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.java:183)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.<init>(AbstractApplicationContext.java:216)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.<init>(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:80)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableConfigApplicationContext.<init>(AbstractRefreshableConfigApplicationContext.java:50)
at org.springframework.web.context.support.AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.<init>(AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.java:95)
at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.<init>(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:62)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:147)
... 13 more
Sep 09, 2016 9:39:42 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart
SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Failed to instantiate [org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/logging/LogFactory
at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:159)
at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:104)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:380)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:313)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:107)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4727)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5189)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1403)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1393)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/logging/LogFactory
at org.springframework.core.io.support.PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver.<clinit>(PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver.java:169)
at org.springframework.web.context.support.AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.getResourcePatternResolver(AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.java:183)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.<init>(AbstractApplicationContext.java:216)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.<init>(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:80)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableConfigApplicationContext.<init>(AbstractRefreshableConfigApplicationContext.java:50)
at org.springframework.web.context.support.AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.<init>(AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.java:95)
at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.<init>(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:62)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:147)
... 13 more
My config files look like this...
applicationContext.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"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
<import resource="datasource-config.xml" />
<import resource="webflow-config.xml" />
</beans>
datasource-config.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:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.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-3.1.xsd">
<context:property-placeholder location="classpath:datasource.properties" />
<bean id="dataSource" class="oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource" destroy-method="close">
<property name="connectionCachingEnabled" value="true" />
<property name="URL" value="jdbc:oracle:thin:#localhost:1521:XE" />
<property name="user" value="user" />
<property name="password" value="pass" />
</bean>
<bean id="entityManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
<property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
<bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter">
<property name="showSql" value="true" />
<property name="generateDdl" value="true" />
<property name="databasePlatform" value="org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle10gDialect" />
</bean>
</property>
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
</bean>
<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactory" />
</bean>
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" />
<bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.support.PersistenceAnnotationBeanPostProcessor" />
</beans>
webflow-config.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:webflow="http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow-config"
xmlns:faces="http://www.springframework.org/schema/faces"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow-config
http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow-config/spring-webflow-config.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/faces
http://www.springframework.org/schema/faces/spring-faces.xsd">
<bean id="jpaFlowExecutionListener" class="org.springframework.webflow.persistence.JpaFlowExecutionListener">
<constructor-arg ref="entityManagerFactory" />
<constructor-arg ref="transactionManager" />
</bean>
<bean id="facesContextListener" class="org.springframework.faces.webflow.FlowFacesContextLifecycleListener" />
<webflow:flow-executor id="flowExecutor">
<webflow:flow-execution-listeners>
<webflow:listener ref="jpaFlowExecutionListener" />
<webflow:listener ref="facesContextListener"/>
</webflow:flow-execution-listeners>
</webflow:flow-executor>
<webflow:flow-registry id="flowRegistry" flow-builder-services="facesFlowBuilderServices" base-path="/WEB-INF/flows">
<webflow:flow-location-pattern value="/**/*-flow.xml" />
</webflow:flow-registry>
<faces:flow-builder-services id="facesFlowBuilderServices" development="true" />
<faces:resources />
<bean class="org.springframework.webflow.mvc.servlet.FlowHandlerMapping">
<property name="order" value="1"/>
<property name="flowRegistry" ref="flowRegistry" />
<property name="defaultHandler">
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.UrlFilenameViewController" />
</property>
</bean>
<bean class="org.springframework.faces.webflow.JsfFlowHandlerAdapter">
<property name="flowExecutor" ref="flowExecutor" />
</bean>
<bean id="faceletsViewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
<property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.faces.mvc.JsfView"/>
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/" />
<property name="suffix" value=".xhtml" />
</bean>
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.SimpleControllerHandlerAdapter" />
</beans>
Stuff like this reminds me why I despise declarative programming so much.
My pom XMLlooks like this...
<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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.example.j2eeapp</groupId>
<artifactId>j2eeapplication</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>J2EE Application</name>
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>prime-repo</id>
<name>PrimeFaces Maven Repository</name>
<url>http://repository.primefaces.org</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.oracle</groupId>
<artifactId>ojdbc14</artifactId>
<version>10.2.0.1.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
<version>5.2.2.Final</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
<version>5.2.2.Final</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.8.2</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.webflow</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webflow</artifactId>
<version>2.4.4.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.webflow</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-faces</artifactId>
<version>2.4.4.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
<version>4.3.2.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.faces</groupId>
<artifactId>jsf-impl</artifactId>
<version>2.2.13</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.facelets</groupId>
<artifactId>jsf-facelets</artifactId>
<version>1.1.14</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.faces</groupId>
<artifactId>jsf-api</artifactId>
<version>2.2.13</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-dbcp</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-dbcp</artifactId>
<version>20030825.184428</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
<version>1.7.21</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>3.1.0</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId>
<version>4.3.2.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>xml-apis</groupId>
<artifactId>xml-apis</artifactId>
<version>2.0.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-web</artifactId>
<version>4.1.3.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-config</artifactId>
<version>4.1.3.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.primefaces</groupId>
<artifactId>primefaces</artifactId>
<version>6.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>cglib</groupId>
<artifactId>cglib</artifactId>
<version>3.2.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
<version>5.2.2.Final</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
<version>1.2.16</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
You are missing logger dependencies in your project build path.
If you are using common logger then add below dependency in your pom.xml
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
if you are using logback, slf4j then exclude common loggings and use below dependencies:
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
<version>${org.slf4j-version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
<artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
<version>1.0.13</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
<artifactId>logback-core</artifactId>
<version>1.0.13</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
<artifactId>logback-access</artifactId>
<version>1.0.13</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId>
<version>1.7.5</version>
</dependency>
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/logging/LogFactory
Error is about missing dependency, commons-logging jar is missing in your classpath. Your POM.xml may be missing
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/commons-logging/commons-logging -->
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
and you may want to exclude spring webflow transitive dependent on 'commons-logging'
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.webflow</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webflow</artifactId>
<version>2.4.4.RELEASE</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>

Missing class org.hibernate.ejb.hibernatePersistence in a maven web project

I am building a maven web project ( jsf+ejb3+jpa2) named " tuto.maven" using eclipse kepler, glassfish4.0, postgresSql 9.1, but where I try to run the project on a server a problem occurs
"cannot Deploy tuto.maven
deploy is failing=Error occurred during deployment: Exception while preparing the app : java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence "
Here is the persistence.xml :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence version="2.0"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation= "http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_0.xsd">
<persistence-unit name="persistence" transaction-type="JTA">
<provider>org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence</provider>
<jta-data-source>jdbc/postgres</jta-data-source>
<class>org.model.User</class>
<properties>
<property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="create-drop"/>
<property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect" />
<property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="true" />
</properties>
</persistence-unit>
</persistence>
and 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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>org.tuto</groupId>
<artifactId>tuto.maven</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>oss.sonatype.org</id>
<name>OSS Sonatype Staging</name>
<url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/groups/staging</url>
</repository>
<repository>
<id>java.net</id>
<url>http://download.java.net/maven/2/</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax</groupId>
<artifactId>javaee-api</artifactId>
<version>7.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate.javax.persistence</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-jpa-2.0-api</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0.Final</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>postgresql</groupId>
<artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
<version>9.1-901.jdbc4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
<version>3.3.2.GA</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.transaction</groupId>
<artifactId>jta</artifactId>
<version>1.0.1B</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
any idea please .
It was a problem of version, I use the latest version and it works.
Make sure you have the jar's and search for prg.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence class in your jars.
You also need to add in your persistence unit. Mention the name of the domain class.
<class>yourpackage.class</class>

HTTP 500 - Cannot create JDBC driver of class '' for connect URL 'null'

I have been searching to fix that problem for 3 days reading forums... Then I decided to ask for some help. Nedless to say that your help would be highly appreciated :-)
I created a jndi resource for the mysql connexion in Tomcat context.xml instance in Eclipse
My web app works fine when I start the server from eclipse. It doesn't work fine when I start the web app from eclipse 'Run configurations' with that goals : clean tomcat7:run. My aim is to delegate the build, deploy, start server to maven from eclipse.
I've put the mysql-connector-java-5.1.27.jar in Tomcat_Home/lib.
I don't want to put the datasource configuration in the app (no META-INF....) as one goal of jndi is to place the datasource info out of the app.
Thank you for reading and for the time you'll spend to find a solution.
Technical specifications
eclipse : juno release2
spring tool suite : 3.4
wtp
m2e : 1.4
maven : 3.0.2
jdk : 1.6.21
tomcat : 7.0.25
mysql : 5.6.14
stacktrace
type Exception report
message Request processing failed; nested exception is org.springframework.jdbc.CannotGetJdbcConnectionException: Could not get JDBC Connection; nested exception is org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot create JDBC driver of class '' for connect URL 'null'
description The server encountered an internal error that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
org.springframework.web.util.NestedServletException: Request processing failed; nested exception is org.springframework.jdbc.CannotGetJdbcConnectionException: Could not get JDBC Connection; nested exception is org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot create JDBC driver of class '' for connect URL 'null'
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:927)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:811)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:621)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.service(FrameworkServlet.java:796)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:728)
root cause
org.springframework.jdbc.CannotGetJdbcConnectionException: Could not get JDBC Connection; nested exception is org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot create JDBC driver of class '' for connect URL 'null'
org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceUtils.getConnection(DataSourceUtils.java:80)
org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate.execute(JdbcTemplate.java:573)
org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate.query(JdbcTemplate.java:637)
org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate.query(JdbcTemplate.java:662)
org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate.query(JdbcTemplate.java:702)
org.springframework.jdbc.core.namedparam.NamedParameterJdbcTemplate.queryForObject(NamedParameterJdbcTemplate.java:178)
com.marc.springmvc3.dao.PersonDAO.getPersonById(PersonDAO.java:26)
com.marc.springmvc3.service.PersonService.getAllPersons(PersonService.java:18)
com.marc.springmvc3.mvc.PersonController.getListOfPerson(PersonController.java:33)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.invoke(InvocableHandlerMethod.java:219)
org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.invokeForRequest(InvocableHandlerMethod.java:132)
org.springframework.web.method.annotation.ModelFactory.invokeModelAttributeMethods(ModelFactory.java:123)
org.springframework.web.method.annotation.ModelFactory.initModel(ModelFactory.java:97)
org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.invokeHandleMethod(RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.java:723)
org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.handleInternal(RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.java:687)
org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.AbstractHandlerMethodAdapter.handle(AbstractHandlerMethodAdapter.java:80)
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:925)
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:856)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:915)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:811)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:621)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.service(FrameworkServlet.java:796)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:728)
root cause
org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot create JDBC driver of class '' for connect URL 'null'
org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createConnectionFactory(BasicDataSource.java:1452)
org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createDataSource(BasicDataSource.java:1371)
org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.getConnection(BasicDataSource.java:1044)
org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceUtils.doGetConnection(DataSourceUtils.java:111)
org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceUtils.getConnection(DataSourceUtils.java:77)
org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate.execute(JdbcTemplate.java:573)
org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate.query(JdbcTemplate.java:637)
org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate.query(JdbcTemplate.java:662)
org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate.query(JdbcTemplate.java:702)
org.springframework.jdbc.core.namedparam.NamedParameterJdbcTemplate.queryForObject(NamedParameterJdbcTemplate.java:178)
com.marc.springmvc3.dao.PersonDAO.getPersonById(PersonDAO.java:26)
com.marc.springmvc3.service.PersonService.getAllPersons(PersonService.java:18)
com.marc.springmvc3.mvc.PersonController.getListOfPerson(PersonController.java:33)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.invoke(InvocableHandlerMethod.java:219)
org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.invokeForRequest(InvocableHandlerMethod.java:132)
org.springframework.web.method.annotation.ModelFactory.invokeModelAttributeMethods(ModelFactory.java:123)
org.springframework.web.method.annotation.ModelFactory.initModel(ModelFactory.java:97)
org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.invokeHandleMethod(RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.java:723)
org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.handleInternal(RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.java:687)
org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.AbstractHandlerMethodAdapter.handle(AbstractHandlerMethodAdapter.java:80)
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:925)
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:856)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:915)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:811)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:621)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.service(FrameworkServlet.java:796)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:728)
root cause
java.lang.NullPointerException
sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver.getProtocol(JdbcOdbcDriver.java:507)
sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver.knownURL(JdbcOdbcDriver.java:476)
sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver.acceptsURL(JdbcOdbcDriver.java:307)
java.sql.DriverManager.getDriver(DriverManager.java:253)
org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createConnectionFactory(BasicDataSource.java:1437)
org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createDataSource(BasicDataSource.java:1371)
org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.getConnection(BasicDataSource.java:1044)
org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceUtils.doGetConnection(DataSourceUtils.java:111)
org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceUtils.getConnection(DataSourceUtils.java:77)
org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate.execute(JdbcTemplate.java:573)
org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate.query(JdbcTemplate.java:637)
org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate.query(JdbcTemplate.java:662)
org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate.query(JdbcTemplate.java:702)
org.springframework.jdbc.core.namedparam.NamedParameterJdbcTemplate.queryForObject(NamedParameterJdbcTemplate.java:178)
com.marc.springmvc3.dao.PersonDAO.getPersonById(PersonDAO.java:26)
com.marc.springmvc3.service.PersonService.getAllPersons(PersonService.java:18)
com.marc.springmvc3.mvc.PersonController.getListOfPerson(PersonController.java:33)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.invoke(InvocableHandlerMethod.java:219)
org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.invokeForRequest(InvocableHandlerMethod.java:132)
org.springframework.web.method.annotation.ModelFactory.invokeModelAttributeMethods(ModelFactory.java:123)
org.springframework.web.method.annotation.ModelFactory.initModel(ModelFactory.java:97)
org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.invokeHandleMethod(RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.java:723)
org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.handleInternal(RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.java:687)
org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.AbstractHandlerMethodAdapter.handle(AbstractHandlerMethodAdapter.java:80)
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:925)
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:856)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:915)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:811)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:621)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.service(FrameworkServlet.java:796)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:728)
note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/7.0.47 logs.
pom.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.marc</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-mvc-3</artifactId>
<name>spring-mvc-3</name>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<version>1.0.0-BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
<properties>
<java-version>1.6</java-version>
<org.springframework-version>3.2.0.RELEASE</org.springframework-version>
<org.aspectj-version>1.6.10</org.aspectj-version>
<org.slf4j-version>1.6.1</org.slf4j-version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<!-- Spring -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework-version}</version>
<exclusions>
<!-- Exclude Commons Logging in favor of SLF4j -->
<exclusion>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework-version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- AspectJ -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>
<version>${org.aspectj-version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Logging -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
<version>${org.slf4j-version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId>
<version>${org.slf4j-version}</version>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
<version>${org.slf4j-version}</version>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
<version>1.2.16</version>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- #Inject -->
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.inject</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.inject</artifactId>
<version>1</version>
</dependency>
<!-- JSR 303 with Hibernate Validator -->
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.validation</groupId>
<artifactId>validation-api</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0.GA</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
<version>4.1.0.Final</version>
</dependency>
<!-- MYSQL driver-->
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<version>5.1.27</version>
</dependency>
<!-- JDBC -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-jdbc</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework-version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-dbcp</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-dbcp</artifactId>
<version>20030825.184428</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Test -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
<artifactId>mockito-core</artifactId>
<version>1.9.5</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.10</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>spring-mvc-3</finalName>
<plugins>
<!-- Maven Tomcat Plugin -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
<configuration>
<url>http://127.0.0.1:8080/manager/text</url>
<server>TomcatServer</server>
<path>/${project.build.finalName}</path>
<port>8080</port>
<charset>UTF-8</charset>
<finalName>${project.build.finalName}</finalName>
<username>ssss</username>
<password>dddddddddd</password>
</configuration>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<version>5.1.27</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>
<!-- Maven compiler plugin -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3.2</version>
<configuration>
<source>${java-version}</source>
<target>${java-version}</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
Servers/tomcat-config/tomcat-users.xml (in Eclipse)
<role rolename="admin"/>
<user username="ssss" password="dddddddddd" roles="admin"/>
web.xml
<web-app id="WebApp_ID" version="2.4"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
<display-name>Spring Web MVC Application</display-name>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>mvc-dispatcher</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>mvc-dispatcher</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<!-- database jndi reference -->
<description>MySQL Test App</description>
<resource-ref>
<description>DB Connection</description>
<res-ref-name>jdbc/TestDB</res-ref-name>
<res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
<res-auth>Container</res-auth>
</resource-ref>
</web-app>
mvc-dispatcher-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:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee"
xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee
http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee-3.2.xsd">
<jee:jndi-lookup id="dataSource"
jndi-name="jdbc/TestDB"
expected-type="javax.sql.DataSource"
resource-ref="true"/>
<bean id="personDao" class="com.marc.springmvc3.dao.PersonDAO">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
</bean>
tomcat context.xml (in eclipse)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Context>
<!-- Default set of monitored resources -->
<WatchedResource>WEB-INF/web.xml</WatchedResource>
<!-- Uncomment this to disable session persistence across Tomcat restarts -->
<!--
<Manager pathname="" />
-->
<!-- Uncomment this to enable Comet connection tacking (provides events
on session expiration as well as webapp lifecycle) -->
<!--
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.CometConnectionManagerValve" />
-->
<Resource name="jdbc/TestDB"
username="xxx"
password="xxxxxxxx"
driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/mytest"
auth="Container"
type="javax.sql.DataSource"
maxActive="100"
maxIdle="30"
maxWait="10000"
initialSize="1"/>
<!-- <ResourceLink name="jdbc/TestDB"
global="jdbc/TestDB"
type="javax.sql.DataSource"/> -->
</Context>
I think your tomcat installation is not using your context.xml. Please create fresh tomcat, configure context.xml and libs and run Tomcat directly from system (without Eclipse etc).
Question was updated, answer below is obsolete :/
The important part is:
Cannot create JDBC driver of class '' for connect URL 'null'
Your driver class is null and connection URL is null.
Application configuration requires configured resource jdbc/TestDB on server:
<resource-ref>
<description>DB Connection</description>
<res-ref-name>jdbc/TestDB</res-ref-name>
<res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
<res-auth>Container</res-auth>
</resource-ref>
and
<jee:jndi-lookup id="dataSource"
jndi-name="jdbc/TestDB"
expected-type="javax.sql.DataSource"
resource-ref="true"/>
But your Tomcat configuration Servers/tomcat-config/context.xml is wrong. It looks like spring application configuration.
<web-app id="WebApp_ID" version="2.4"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
...
Standard Tomcat context.xml looks like this:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<Context>
<Resource name="jdbc/TestDB" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource"
username="user" password="pass"
driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/testDB?characterEncoding=utf8" maxActive="8"/>
</Context>
I've eventually found out the solution and I'll share it with those who are encountering the same problem.
Create the META-INF folder under src/main/webapp as WEB-INF sibling
Move the Tomcat-config/context.xml file to the META-INF folder. You'll see in the pom.xml that this file is not going to be part of the WAR file.
META-INF/context.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Context>
<!-- Default set of monitored resources -->
<WatchedResource>WEB-INF/web.xml</WatchedResource>
<Resource name="jdbc/TestDB"
username="xxxx"
password="xxxxxxxxxx"
driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/TestDB"
auth="Container"
type="javax.sql.DataSource"
maxActive="100"
maxIdle="30"
maxWait="10000"
initialSize="1"/>
</Context>
Adapt the pom.xml
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
<configuration>
<url>http://127.0.0.1:8080/manager/text</url>
<server>TomcatServer</server> <!-- user + password defined in the Maven/conf/settings.xml-->
<path>/${project.build.finalName}</path>
<port>8080</port>
<charset>UTF-8</charset>
<finalName>${project.build.finalName}</finalName>
<contextFile>${project.basedir}/src/main/webapp/META-INF/context.xml</contextFile> <!--The path of the Tomcat context XML file. This is not used for war deployment mode.-->
</configuration>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId> <!-- driver mysql -->
<version>5.1.27</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>
MAVEN_HOME/conf/settings.xml
The id is referenced in the pom.xml. The username and the password are declared in the tomcat-users.xml
<server>
<id>TomcatServer</id>
<username>xxxxx</username>
<password>xxxxxxxxx</password>
</server>
Eclipse / Run - Run configurations ...
create new launch configuration
Base direrctory ${workspace_loc:/your project name}
Goals clean tomcat7:run
Apply
Run
Next time you can click on the arrow near the Run As... button in the ToolBar and select the configuration you want to run. The Stop and Relaunch buttons are very useful.
I am using Eclipse STS 3.9.3, tomcat 8.5 and Spring Boot 2.0.0.RELEASE
I spent my entire morning about this problem.
So, I did a lot of things to solve:
Remove jdbc dependence from my pom.
<!-- dependency>
<groupId>org.postgresql</groupId>
<artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency-->
Declaration resource TOMCAT_HOME/CONF/server.xml whit factory:
<GlobalNamingResources>
...
<Resource name="jdbc/postgres_jndi"
auth="Container"
type="javax.sql.DataSource"
driverClassName="org.postgresql.Driver"
url="jdbc:postgresql://xxx.xxx.xx.xxx:5432/db"
factory="org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DataSourceFactory"
removeAbandonedOnBorrow="true"
removeAbandonedOnMaintenance="true"
timeBetweenEvictionRunsMillis="10000"
removeAbandonedTimeout="60"
logAbandoned="true"
username="xxx"
password="xxxxxx"
maxTotal="20"
maxIdle="10"
maxWaitMillis="-1"/>
...
</GlobalNamingResources>
I realized that I was using Eclipse STS. The tomcat resource on server.xml only works after I put the resource declaration in server.xml inside of "Tomcat v8.5 Server at localhost-config" folder in my Server project. Did not work on TOMCAT_HOME/conf folder in server.xml file.
Change my application.yml to:
spring:
datasource:
platform: postgres
jndi-name: java:comp/env/jdbc/postgres_jndi
type: javax.sql.DataSource
driver-class-name: org.postgresql.Driver
jpa:
hibernate:
ddl-auto: validate
database-platform: org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQL9Dialect
database: POSTGRESQL
show-sql: true
#Method org.postgresql.jdbc.PgConnection.createClob() is not yet implemented.
properties:
hibernate:
temp:
use_jdbc_metadata_defaults: false
A application.properties will be like:
spring.datasource.platform= postgres
spring.datasource.jndi-name= java:comp/env/jdbc/postgres_jndi
spring.datasource.type= javax.sql.DataSource
spring.datasource.driver-class-name= org.postgresql.Driver
spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto= validate
spring.jpa.hibernatedatabase-platform= org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQL9Dialect
spring.jpa.database= POSTGRESQL
spring.jpa.show-sql= true
spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.temp.use_jdbc_metadata_defaults=false
Define a context.xml file in src/main/webapp/META-INF/context.xml with definition:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Context path="/myapp">
<ResourceLink global="jdbc/postgres_jndi" name="jdbc/postgres_jni" type="javax.sql.DataSource"/>
</Context>
Put the file postgresql-42.2.2.jar in the TOMCAT_HOME/lib

How to use spring form taglib in conjunction with maven?

I added spring-webmvc to my maven dependencies.
According to some page I found I need to use this:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
It works fine and I can see the jar file in my m2 local repository.
But my problem is that I'm getting an error in my JSP file that says "The tag handler class for "form:form" (org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.form.FormTag) was not found on the Java Build Path".
It obviously is looking for org.springframework.web.servlet BUT I thought adding spring-webmvc would fix it as mentioned is several search results I've read. Plus I've used "org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver" in my spring bean configuration XML so I know it's loading parts of the spring-webmvc.
I've looked at repo1.maven.org and mvnrepository.com and I never saw them mentioned org.springframework.web.servlet.
I then decided to add web.servlet according to the springsource page (http://ebr.springsource.com/repository/app/bundle/version/detail?name=org.springframework.web.servlet&version=3.1.3.RELEASE)
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>org.springframework.web.servlet</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
But I then get this error "Missing artifact org.springframework:org.springframework.web.servlet:jar:3.1.3.RELEASE".
I added springsource own repo (http://ebr.springsource.com/repository/app/faq) to my pom.xml but I get the same "missing artifact" message.
I guess I'm stuck and need your help. thanks :)
Not sure if this is relevant but I've included 3 XML config files. :)
web.xml
<?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/web-app_2_5.xsd"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
<display-name>Spring3MVC</display-name>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.jsp</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>*.html</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
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:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">
<context:component-scan base-package="org.flinders.staffdirectory.controllers" />
<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>
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">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>org.flinders.staff.directory</groupId>
<artifactId>directory-maven</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>directory-maven Maven Webapp</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<properties>
<org.springframework.version>3.1.3.RELEASE</org.springframework.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.antlr</groupId>
<artifactId>antlr</artifactId>
<version>3.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-dbcp</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-dbcp</artifactId>
<version>1.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>jstl</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.oracle</groupId>
<artifactId>ojdbc6</artifactId>
<version>11.2.0.3</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
<version>1.5.8</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.tiles</groupId>
<artifactId>tiles-jsp</artifactId>
<version>2.2.2</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>directory-maven</finalName>
</build>
</project>
I normally put this page directive at the top of the file:
<%# taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" prefix="form" %>
Which should make sure that the form taglib is being loaded in the JSP.
Seems like I forgot to pass a modelAttribute to my form:
return new ModelAndView("search/SearchForm", "search", new Search());
I was able to resolve the issue by adding the taglib directive as the first line in the file.

Maven archetypes for OpenJPA

Greetings.
I'm just starting to explore Maven and I use m2eclipse as to use Maven in Eclipse.
I found that there is a hibernate-based archetype with
Group Id: com.rfc.maven.archetypes and
Artifact Id: jpa-maven-archetype
Does anybody knows if there are archetypes for OpenJPA-based projected with test frameworks included?
Thanks a lot.
Does anybody knows if there are archetypes for OpenJPA-based projected with test frameworks included?
Not to my knowledge. So my suggestion would be to use the jpa-maven-archetype and to tweak it for OpenJPA and JPA 2.0.
First, generate a project:
$ mvn archetype:generate \
-DgroupId=com.stackoverflow \
-DartifactId=Q4161012 \
-DpackageName=com.stackoverflow.domain \
-DarchetypeGroupId=com.rfc.maven.archetypes \
-DarchetypeArtifactId=jpa-maven-archetype \
-DarchetypeVersion=1.0.0 \
-DremoteRepositories=http://maven.rodcoffin.com/repo \
-DinteractiveMode=false
Then cd into the created directory and modify the pom.xml to replace Hibernate by OpenJPA artifacts, add the OpenJPA plugin for enhancement (I did a few other minor tweaks):
<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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.stackoverflow</groupId>
<artifactId>Q4161012</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>JPA Project</name>
<properties>
<openjpa.version>2.0.1</openjpa.version>
<slf4j.version>1.6.1</slf4j.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.8.2</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.dbunit</groupId>
<artifactId>dbunit</artifactId>
<version>2.4.8</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.openjpa</groupId>
<artifactId>openjpa</artifactId>
<version>${openjpa.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
<version>${slf4j.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
<version>${slf4j.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>hsqldb</groupId>
<artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId>
<version>1.8.0.7</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.0.2</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.6</source>
<target>1.6</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>openjpa-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
<configuration>
<includes>com/stackoverflow/domain/**/*.class</includes>
<addDefaultConstructor>true</addDefaultConstructor>
<enforcePropertyRestrictions>true</enforcePropertyRestrictions>
<!-- Pass additional properties to the Plugin here -->
<toolProperties>
<property>
<name>directory</name>
<value>otherdirectoryvalue</value>
</property>
</toolProperties>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>enhancer</id>
<phase>process-classes</phase>
<goals>
<goal>enhance</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.openjpa</groupId>
<artifactId>openjpa</artifactId>
<version>${openjpa.version}</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
Then modify the persistence.xml for JPA 2.0 and add the OpenJPA specific properties:
<persistence xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_0.xsd"
version="2.0">
<persistence-unit name="Q4161012"></persistence-unit>
<persistence-unit name="Q4161012-test"
transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">
<class>com.stackoverflow.domain.User</class>
<properties>
<property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.driver"
value="org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver" />
<property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.url"
value="jdbc:hsqldb:mem:my-project-test" />
<property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.user" value="sa" />
<property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.password" value="" />
<property name="openjpa.jdbc.DBDictionary"
value="org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.sql.HSQLDictionary" />
<property name="openjpa.jdbc.SynchronizeMappings"
value="buildSchema(SchemaAction=add)"/>
</properties>
</persistence-unit>
</persistence>
And replace the following lines in UserTest.java (and clean up imports):
HibernateEntityManager em = (HibernateEntityManager) emf.createEntityManager();
DbUnitDataLoader loader = new DbUnitDataLoader(testData, em.getSession().connection());
By (OpenJPA doesn't support the EntityManager#unwrap(Object) from JPA 2.0 yet, see OPENJPA-1803, so you have to use OpenJPA specific classes):
EntityManager em = emf.createEntityManager();
OpenJPAEntityManager oem = OpenJPAPersistence.cast(em);
Connection conn = (Connection) oem.getConnection();
conn.setAutoCommit(true);
DbUnitDataLoader loader = new DbUnitDataLoader(testData, conn);
And run the test:
$ mvn clean test
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
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[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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