Eclipse RCP Spring 3 Hibernate 4 class loading issue - eclipse

Question

I am attempting to set annotation classess by subclass LocalSessionFactoryBean.
Bean xml is loaded fine with hibernate 3 until I change to hibernate 4 package. I got this error:
ClassPathXmlApplicationContext: Exception encountered during context initia
lization - cancelling refresh attempt
at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext$ModalContextThread.run(ModalContext.java:121)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/hibernate/HibernateException
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Class.java:2595)
at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Class.java:2895)
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructor(Class.java:2066)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.SimpleInstantiationStrategy.instantiate(SimpleInstantiationStrategy.java:7
8)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.instantiateBean(AbstractAutowireCapable
BeanFactory.java:1032)
... 18 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.hibernate.HibernateException
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClassInternal(BundleLoader.java:501)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClass(BundleLoader.java:421)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClass(BundleLoader.java:412)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.DefaultClassLoader.loadClass(DefaultClassLoader.java:107)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)
... 24 more
My bean.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:jms="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jms"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/jms http://www.springframework.org/schema/jms/spring-jms-3.1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.1.xsd" >
<!-- Transaction Manager Definition -->
<bean id = "transactionManager" class = "org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager">
<property name = "sessionFactory" ref = "sessionFactory" />
</bean>
<bean id="dataSource" class="com.mchange.v2.c3p0.ComboPooledDataSource" destroy-method="close">
</bean>
<bean id="sessionFactory" class = "customSessionFactory">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<property name="hibernateProperties">
<props>
<prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.jdbc.batch_size">10000</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.show_sql">false</prop>
<!-- Cache Properties -->
<prop key="hibernate.cache.use_second_level_cache">false</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.cache.use_query_cache">false</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.generate_statistics">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.cache.use_structured_entries">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.transaction.factory_class">org.hibernate.transaction.JDBCTransactionFactory</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.cache.region.factory_class">net.sf.ehcache.hibernate.SingletonEhCacheRegionFactory</prop>
<prop key="net.sf.ehcache.configurationResourceName">ehcache.xml</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
customSessionFactory class setAnnotationClass entity classes.
What did I do wrong here?

Answer 1

Make sure your bundle imports the org.hibernate package.
This may not have been required for hibernate 3.x.
In your MANIFEST.MF add org.hibernate to the Import-Package: section.