How to use JBossTS (Narayana) with Spring Data JPA - spring-data-jpa

Question

I am investigating the use of a JTA transaction manager with Spring Data JPA. I have successfully configured Atomikos and Bitronix and am trying to configure JBossTS (Arjuna/Narayana).
I followed the instructions for configuring JBossTS for Spring and came up with the following configuration:
<bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean" id="entityManagerFactory">
<property name="jpaProperties">
<props>
<prop key="hibernate.format_sql">true"</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">create-drop</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.id.new_generator_mappings">false</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.transaction.jta.platform">org.hibernate.engine.transaction.jta.platform.internal.JBossStandAloneJtaPlatform</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.use_sql_comments">true</prop>
</props>
</property>
<property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
<bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter">
<property name="databasePlatform" value="org.hibernate.dialect.H2Dialect"/>
<property name="generateDdl" value="true"/>
<property name="showSql" value="true"/>
</bean>
</property>
<property name="jtaDataSource">
<bean class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
<property name="connectionProperties">
<props>
<prop key="dynamicClass">com.arjuna.ats.internal.jdbc.drivers.PropertyFileDynamicClass</prop>
<prop key="password"></prop>
<prop key="user">sa</prop>
</props>
</property>
<property name="driverClassName" value="com.arjuna.ats.jdbc.TransactionalDriver"/>
<property name="url" value="jdbc:arjuna:database.properties"/>
</bean>
</property>
<property name="packagesToScan" value="org.example.domain"/>
</bean>
<bean class="org.springframework.transaction.jta.JtaTransactionManager" id="transactionManager">
<property name="transactionManager">
<bean class="com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.transaction.arjunacore.TransactionManagerImple"/>
</property>
<property name="userTransaction">
<bean class="com.arjuna.ats.jta.UserTransaction" factory-method="userTransaction"/>
</property>
</bean>
<transaction:annotation-driven/>
However, attempting to run the application throws the following error:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to load ApplicationContext
Caused by: javax.persistence.PersistenceException: [PersistenceUnit: default] Unable to build Hibernate SessionFactory
Caused by: org.hibernate.exception.GenericJDBCException: Unable to open JDBC Connection for DDL execution
Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Need to specify class name in environment or system property, or as an applet parameter, or in an application resource file: java.naming.factory.initial
at com.arjuna.ats.internal.jdbc.IndirectRecoverableConnection.createDataSource(IndirectRecoverableConnection.java:361)
at com.arjuna.ats.internal.jdbc.IndirectRecoverableConnection.<init>(IndirectRecoverableConnection.java:109)
at com.arjuna.ats.internal.jdbc.ConnectionImple.<init>(ConnectionImple.java:107)
at com.arjuna.ats.internal.jdbc.ConnectionManager.create(ConnectionManager.java:110)
at com.arjuna.ats.jdbc.TransactionalDriver.connect(TransactionalDriver.java:87)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:664)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:208)
at org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource.getConnectionFromDriverManager(DriverManagerDataSource.java:153)
at org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource.getConnectionFromDriver(DriverManagerDataSource.java:144)
at org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.AbstractDriverBasedDataSource.getConnectionFromDriver(AbstractDriverBasedDataSource.java:196)
at org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.AbstractDriverBasedDataSource.getConnection(AbstractDriverBasedDataSource.java:159)
at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.connections.internal.DatasourceConnectionProviderImpl.getConnection(DatasourceConnectionProviderImpl.java:122)
at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.internal.JdbcEnvironmentInitiator$ConnectionProviderJdbcConnectionAccess.obtainConnection(JdbcEnvironmentInitiator.java:180)
at org.hibernate.resource.transaction.backend.jta.internal.DdlTransactionIsolatorJtaImpl.prepare(DdlTransactionIsolatorJtaImpl.java:49)
... 60 more
Caused by: javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Need to specify class name in environment or system property, or as an applet parameter, or in an application resource file: java.naming.factory.initial
at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(NamingManager.java:662)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:313)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.getURLOrDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:350)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:417)
at com.arjuna.ats.internal.jdbc.IndirectRecoverableConnection.createDataSource(IndirectRecoverableConnection.java:346)
There does not seem to be any documentation on whether JNDI is mandatory to run JBossTS and if yes, how it can be configured in a standalone application that does not use a JavaEE container.
A sample application is available on Github in case the full configuration and source code is required. The problem can be seen by running Maven tests as mvn test -D"spring.profiles.active=jbossts".

Answer 1

Replace the <prop key="dynamicClass"> with <prop key="DYNAMIC_CLASS">
Specify the properties file with target/classes
Use the H2 file database instead of the memory
For more information you can see narayana.io