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Entity Manager is null when trying to connect to Dockerised DB2 in Java using JPA, also using maven & Open Liberty

So I'm developing an API and I'm trying to connect to a local docker instance of DB2 from java using JPA entity manager. After running Apache Maven and getting build success, I try a GET request from Postman to test an endpoint and get a list of all users from DB2. I'm receiving the below error saying that entity manager is null. I've tried researching online and can't seem to find the solution.
The Dao class is virtually unchanged from a previous iteration that used Derby instead of DB2 and it worked fine.
I was wanting to know where I've gone wrong, what needs changing, and if anything is not needed. Provided below is the xml files and the DAO java class containing the entity manager. All properties for DB2 is correct as they're unchanged from a successful connection I was able to do from Eclipse's Database Development. The driver used then was db2jcc4 which I think is different to the driver said to use for the maven dependency so not sure if that's an issue.
Postman:
Error 500: java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke
"javax.persistence.EntityManager.createNamedQuery(String, java.lang.Class)" because
"this.em" is null
Maven:
[INFO] [ERROR ] CWWJP0015E: An error occurred in the org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.PersistenceProvider persistence provider when it attempted to create the container entity manager factory for the jpa-unit persistence unit. The following error occurred: Exception [EclipseLink-28018] (Eclipse Persistence Services - 2.7.9.v20210604-2c549e2208): org.eclipse.persistence.exceptions.EntityManagerSetupException
[INFO] Exception Description: Predeployment of PersistenceUnit [jpa-unit] failed.
[INFO] Internal Exception: javax.persistence.PersistenceException: CWWJP0013E: The server cannot locate the java:comp/DefaultDataSource data source for the jpa-unit persistence unit because it has encountered the following exception: javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: java:comp/DefaultDataSource.
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 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.obdoblock</groupId>
<artifactId>hyperledger-api</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
<maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
<maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
<!-- Liberty configuration -->
<liberty.var.default.http.port>3500</liberty.var.default.http.port>
<liberty.var.default.https.port>9443</liberty.var.default.https.port>
<liberty.var.app.context.root>api</liberty.var.app.context.root>
<!-- TestDB Configuration -->
<version.ibm.db2>11.5.6.0</version.ibm.db2>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<!-- Provided dependencies -->
<dependency>
<groupId>jakarta.platform</groupId>
<artifactId>jakarta.jakartaee-api</artifactId>
<version>8.0.0</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.eclipse.microprofile</groupId>
<artifactId>microprofile</artifactId>
<version>3.3</version>
<type>pom</type>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- For tests -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
<artifactId>junit-jupiter</artifactId>
<version>5.6.2</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
<artifactId>cxf-rt-rs-client</artifactId>
<version>3.3.6</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
<artifactId>cxf-rt-rs-extension-providers</artifactId>
<version>3.3.6</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.eclipse</groupId>
<artifactId>yasson</artifactId>
<version>1.0.7</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- DB2 connector -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.ibm.db2</groupId>
<artifactId>jcc</artifactId>
<version>11.5.6.0</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Hyperledger Fabric Gateway for Blockchain -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hyperledger.fabric</groupId>
<artifactId>fabric-gateway-java</artifactId>
<version>2.2.0</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName>
<plugins>
<!-- Enable liberty-maven plugin -->
<plugin>
<groupId>io.openliberty.tools</groupId>
<artifactId>liberty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.3.4</version>
<configuration>
<copyDependencies>
<location>${project.build.directory}/liberty/wlp/usr/shared/resources</location>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.ibm.db2</groupId>
<artifactId>jcc</artifactId>
<version>11.5.6.0</version>
</dependency>
</copyDependencies>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<!-- Plugin to run functional tests -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.22.2</version>
<configuration>
<systemPropertyVariables>
<http.port>${liberty.var.default.http.port}</http.port>
<context.root>${liberty.var.app.context.root}</context.root>
</systemPropertyVariables>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.2.3</version>
</plugin>
<!-- Plugin to run unit tests -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.22.2</version>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
server.xml
<server description="Obdoblock REST Server">
<featureManager>
<feature>jaxrs-2.1</feature>
<feature>openapi-3.1</feature>
<feature>jpa-2.2</feature>
<feature>cdi-2.0</feature>
</featureManager>
<httpEndpoint
httpPort="${default.http.port}"
httpsPort="${default.https.port}"
id="defaultHttpEndpoint"
host="*"
/>
<webApplication
location="hyperledger-api.war"
contextRoot="${app.context.root}"
/>
<!-- DB2 Library Configuration -->
<library id="DB2JCCLib">
<fileset dir="${shared.resource.dir}" includes="*.jar" />
</library>
<dataSource jndiName="jdbc/db2">
<jdbcDriver libraryRef="jdbcLib"/>
<properties
databaseName="testdb"
serverName="localhost"
portNumber="50000"
user="****" password="****"
/>
</dataSource>
</server>
persistence.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- TODO: This will have to be configured by ENV as well -->
<!-- https://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/documentation/2.5/jpa/extensions/p_ddl_generation.htm -->
<persistence version="2.2"
xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence
http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_2.xsd">
<persistence-unit name="jpa-unit" transaction-type="JTA">
<properties>
<!-- Connection Specific -->
<property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.DB2Dialect"/>
<property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.driver" value="com.ibm.db2.jcc.DB2Driver" />
<property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.url" value="jdbc:db2://localhost:50000/testdb" />
<property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.user" value="****" />
<property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.password" value="****" />
<property name="show_sql" value="true"/>
<property name="hibernate.temp.use_jdbc_metadata_defaults" value="false"/>
</properties>
</persistence-unit>
</persistence>
UserDao.java
package dao;
import java.util.List;
import javax.persistence.EntityManager;
import javax.persistence.PersistenceContext;
import javax.enterprise.context.RequestScoped;
import models.*;
#RequestScoped
public class UserDao {
#PersistenceContext(name = "jpa-unit")
private EntityManager em;
public void createUser(Users user){
em.persist(user);
}
public Users readUser(int userId){
return em.find(Users.class, userId);
}
public List<Users> readAllUsers(){
return em.createNamedQuery("Users.findAll", Users.class).getResultList();
}
public void updateUser(Users user){
em.merge(user);
}
public void deleteUser(Users userId){
em.remove(userId);
}
public List<Users> findUser(String email){
return em.createNamedQuery("Users.findUser", Users.class)
.setParameter("email", email)
.getResultList();
}
public void createHistory(History hist){
em.persist(hist);
}
//wait this doesnt do anything?
public Users readHistory(int id){
return em.find(Users.class, id);
}
public List<History> readAllHistory(){
return em.createNamedQuery("History.findAll", History.class).getResultList();
}
}
Versions:
Docker: 20.10.8, build 3967b7d
DB2: ibm/db2 docker image version 11.5.6
Maven: 3.8.3
Java: JDK 14.0.2
If needing any more details, I'm happy to provide them.
Thanks, Dylan

Your persistence.xml is incorrect. It should point to datasource configured in the server.xml, not specify driver properties.
Like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence version="2.2"
xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence
http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_2.xsd">
<persistence-unit name="jpa-unit" transaction-type="JTA">
<jta-data-source>jdbc/guestbookDS</jta-data-source>
<properties>
<property name="javax.persistence.schema-generation.database.action" value="create" />
<property name="javax.persistence.schema-generation.create-database-schemas" value="true" />
<property name="javax.persistence.schema-generation.scripts.action" value="create" />
<property name="javax.persistence.schema-generation.scripts.create-target" value="create.ddl"/>
<!--
<property name="eclipselink.ddl-generation" value="create-or-extend-tables"/>
<property name="eclipselink.ddl-generation.output-mode" value="both" />
-->
</properties>
</persistence-unit>
</persistence>
You can check this very simple Liberty project which uses JPA and database here https://github.com/stocktrader-ops/db-sat-demo (it is using PostgreSQL instead of DB2, but you should just use your datasource setup)

Spring-hibernate : How to solve HibernateException" DefaultSchemaNameResolver requires Dialect to provide MySQL5Dialect"

I am newbie to Spring & Hibernate,
Trying to run project that run them togethet.
After a lot of error fixing the things work well,
But when I'm running the main class I still get that exception :
org.hibernate.HibernateException: Use of DefaultSchemaNameResolver requires Dialect to provide the proper SQL statement/command but provided Dialect [org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL57Dialect] did not return anything from Dialect#getCurrentSchemaCommand
at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.internal.DefaultSchemaNameResolver$SchemaNameResolverFallbackDelegate.resolveSchemaName(DefaultSchemaNameResolver.java:100) ~[hibernate-core-5.3.1.Final.jar:5.3.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.internal.DefaultSchemaNameResolver.resolveSchemaName(DefaultSchemaNameResolver.java:76) ~[hibernate-core-5.3.1.Final.jar:5.3.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.internal.JdbcEnvironmentImpl.determineCurrentSchemaName(JdbcEnvironmentImpl.java:298) [hibernate-core-5.3.1.Final.jar:5.3.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.internal.JdbcEnvironmentImpl.<init>(JdbcEnvironmentImpl.java:232) [hibernate-core-5.3.1.Final.jar:5.3.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.internal.JdbcEnvironmentInitiator.initiateService(JdbcEnvironmentInitiator.java:114) [hibernate-core-5.3.1.Final.jar:5.3.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.internal.JdbcEnvironmentInitiator.initiateService(JdbcEnvironmentInitiator.java:35) [hibernate-core-5.3.1.Final.jar:5.3.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.boot.registry.internal.StandardServiceRegistryImpl.initiateService(StandardServiceRegistryImpl.java:94) [hibernate-core-5.3.1.Final.jar:5.3.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.createService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:263) [hibernate-core-5.3.1.Final.jar:5.3.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.initializeService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:237) [hibernate-core-5.3.1.Final.jar:5.3.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.getService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:214) [hibernate-core-5.3.1.Final.jar:5.3.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.id.factory.internal.DefaultIdentifierGeneratorFactory.injectServices(DefaultIdentifierGeneratorFactory.java:152) [hibernate-core-5.3.1.Final.jar:5.3.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.injectDependencies(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:286) [hibernate-core-5.3.1.Final.jar:5.3.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.initializeService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:243) [hibernate-core-5.3.1.Final.jar:5.3.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.getService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:214) [hibernate-core-5.3.1.Final.jar:5.3.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.boot.internal.InFlightMetadataCollectorImpl.<init>(InFlightMetadataCollectorImpl.java:179) [hibernate-core-5.3.1.Final.jar:5.3.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.boot.model.process.spi.MetadataBuildingProcess.complete(MetadataBuildingProcess.java:119) [hibernate-core-5.3.1.Final.jar:5.3.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.boot.model.process.spi.MetadataBuildingProcess.build(MetadataBuildingProcess.java:84) [hibernate-core-5.3.1.Final.jar:5.3.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.boot.internal.MetadataBuilderImpl.build(MetadataBuilderImpl.java:474) [hibernate-core-5.3.1.Final.jar:5.3.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.boot.internal.MetadataBuilderImpl.build(MetadataBuilderImpl.java:85) [hibernate-core-5.3.1.Final.jar:5.3.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:689) [hibernate-core-5.3.1.Final.jar:5.3.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:724) [hibernate-core-5.3.1.Final.jar:5.3.1.Final]
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBuilder.buildSessionFactory(LocalSessionFactoryBuilder.java:343) [spring-orm-4.0.3.RELEASE.jar:4.0.3.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean.buildSessionFactory(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:431) [spring-orm-4.0.3.RELEASE.jar:4.0.3.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:416) [spring-orm-4.0.3.RELEASE.jar:4.0.3.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1637) [spring-beans-4.2.7.RELEASE.jar:4.2.7.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1574) [spring-beans-4.2.7.RELEASE.jar:4.2.7.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:545) [spring-beans-4.2.7.RELEASE.jar:4.2.7.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:482) [spring-beans-4.2.7.RELEASE.jar:4.2.7.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:306) [spring-beans-4.2.7.RELEASE.jar:4.2.7.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:230) [spring-beans-4.2.7.RELEASE.jar:4.2.7.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:302) [spring-beans-4.2.7.RELEASE.jar:4.2.7.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:197) [spring-beans-4.2.7.RELEASE.jar:4.2.7.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:753) [spring-beans-4.2.7.RELEASE.jar:4.2.7.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:839) [spring-context-4.2.7.RELEASE.jar:4.2.7.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:538) [spring-context-4.2.7.RELEASE.jar:4.2.7.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:139) [spring-context-4.2.7.RELEASE.jar:4.2.7.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:83) [spring-context-4.2.7.RELEASE.jar:4.2.7.RELEASE]
at springboot.beans.app.SpringHibernateMain.main(SpringHibernateMain.java:24) [classes/:na]
Trying google it, to remove the dialect property, or change it, but it's not work.
What is the cause of it, and how to fix (also getting a lot of warnings ate the pom.xml about versions overriding).
This is the relevant files, I hope:
The running class:
package springboot.beans.app;
import java.util.List;
import org.hibernate.Session;
import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
import org.hibernate.Transaction;
import org.hibernate.boot.Metadata;
import org.hibernate.boot.MetadataSources;
import org.hibernate.boot.registry.StandardServiceRegistry;
import org.hibernate.boot.registry.StandardServiceRegistryBuilder;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;
import database.ManageEmployee;
import withAnnotation.InsertRecords;
import withAnnotation.InsertRecords2;
import withAnnotation.Product;
public class SpringHibernateMain {
public static void main(String[] args) {
ClassPathXmlApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("SpringHibernateConfiguration.xml");
ManageEmployee manager = context.getBean(ManageEmployee.class);
/* Add few employee records in database */
Integer empID1 = manager.addEmployee("Spring222", "TODAY222", 30000);
Integer empID2 = manager.addEmployee("Avraham-spring", "Das", 5000);
Integer empID3 = manager.addEmployee("Sarah wigh spring", "Paul", 10000);
/* List down all the employees */
manager.listEmployees();
/* Update employee's records */
manager.updateEmployee(empID1, 5000);
System.out.println(empID2 + " = empID2");
/* Delete an employee from the database */
manager.deleteEmployee(empID2);
/* List down new list of the employees */
manager.listEmployees();
InsertRecords2 producer = context.getBean(InsertRecords2.class);
producer.updateProducts();//it's running insertion from inside
System.out.println("check if done");
//close resources
context.close();
}
}
The SpringHibernateConfiguration.xml :
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-4.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-4.0.xsd">
<bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource"
destroy-method="close">
<!-- <property name = "hibernate.connection.driver_class">
com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
</property>
-->
<property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" />
<property name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/hibernate_mysql7?useSSL=false" />
<property name="username" value="XXXX" />
<property name="password" value="XXXX" />
</bean>
<!-- Hibernate 3 XML SessionFactory Bean definition-->
<!-- <bean id="hibernate3SessionFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<property name="mappingResources">
<list>
<value>person.hbm.xml</value>
</list>
</property>
<property name="hibernateProperties">
<value>
hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect
</value>
</property>
</bean> -->
<!-- Hibernate 4 Annotation SessionFactory Bean definition-->
<bean id="hibernate4AnnotatedSessionFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<property name="annotatedClasses"><!-- sessionFactory -->
<list>
<!-- <value>Employee.hbm.xml</value> ? <value>database.Employee</value> -->
<value>withAnnotation.Product</value>
</list>
</property>
<!-- add this -->
<property name="mappingResources">
<list>
<value>Employee.hbm.xml</value>
</list>
</property>
<!-- end -->
<property name="hibernateProperties">
<props>
<!-- this cause new creating and clean all from the past
<prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">create</prop>
if u want to create once and keep use that instead :-->
<prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">update</prop>
<!-- hibernate found it by itself <prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5Dialect</prop> -->
<prop key="hibernate.current_session_context_class">thread</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop><!-- <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">create</property> -->
</props>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="managerEmployee" class="database.ManageEmployee">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="hibernate4AnnotatedSessionFactory" />
</bean>
<bean id="producer" class="withAnnotation.InsertRecords2">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="hibernate4AnnotatedSessionFactory" />
</bean>
</beans>
the 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>springboot.beans.app</groupId>
<artifactId>SpringHibernateBasic5-OtherConfiguration</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>SpringHibernateBasic5-OtherConfiguration</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<spring.version>4.2.7.RELEASE</spring.version>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
<spring-framework.version>4.0.3.RELEASE</spring-framework.version>
<!-- *** added -->
<!-- Hibernate / JPA -->
<!-- <hibernate.version>4.3.5.Final</hibernate.version> -->
<hibernate.version>5.3.1.Final</hibernate.version> <!-- 3.6.9.Final-->
<!-- Logging -->
<logback.version>1.0.13</logback.version>
<slf4j.version>1.7.5</slf4j.version>
</properties>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.0.5.RELEASE</version>
</parent>
<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>${spring.version}</version><!--$NO-MVN-MAN-VER$-->
</dependency>
<!-- Spring boot dependencies -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId>
<version>${spring-framework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Spring ORM support -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
<version>${spring-framework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Logging with SLF4J & LogBack -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
<version>${slf4j.version}</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
<artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
<version>${logback.version}</version>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- Hibernate -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
<version>${hibernate.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
<version>${hibernate.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<version>5.1.47</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-dbcp</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-dbcp</artifactId>
<version>1.4</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Spring dependency -->
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.2</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
The full log of the running is long , so what I need to copy here ?

There are several things flawed in your approach
Mixing 3 different Spring versions (5.0, 4.2 and 4.0)
Using a hibernate version that isn't supported by Spring 4
Use Hibernate 4 support classes to configure hibernate 5
Tried to use Spring Boot, stepped back and worked around it
Use Hibernate instead of JPA and Hibernate as the JPA provider
First of all clean up your pom.xml and use Spring Boots dependency management to your advantage.
<?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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>springboot.beans.app</groupId>
<artifactId>SpringHibernateBasic5-OtherConfiguration</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>SpringHibernateBasic5-OtherConfiguration</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<properties>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
</properties>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.0.5.RELEASE</version>
</parent>
<dependencies>
<!-- Spring boot dependencies -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
Notice that most of your dependencies are gone as most of them are already managed by one of the starters you had (slf4j, logback, Spring dependencies). You want to use Hibernate (and I suggest to use JPA instead of plain hibernate) it is enough to add spring-boot-starter-data-jpa to get all the needed dependencies.
Next create an application.properties in src/main/resources and put the following in there (deducted from your question).
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/hibernate_mysql7?useSSL=false
spring.datasource.username=XXXX
spring.datasource.password=XXXX
spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=update
This will configure the datasource and create the schema (although you are better not to use that in production!).
Now modify your SpringHibernateMain and put an #SpringBootApplication annotation on it and change your main method. Also place your entities in a proper sub package.
#SpringBootApplication
public class SpringHibernateMain {
public static void main(String[] args) {
ApplicationContext context = SpringApplication.run(SpringHibernateMain.class ,args);
ManageEmployee manager = context.getBean(ManageEmployee.class);
/* Add few employee records in database */
Integer empID1 = manager.addEmployee("Spring222", "TODAY222", 30000);
Integer empID2 = manager.addEmployee("Avraham-spring", "Das", 5000);
Integer empID3 = manager.addEmployee("Sarah wigh spring", "Paul", 10000);
/* List down all the employees */
manager.listEmployees();
/* Update employee's records */
manager.updateEmployee(empID1, 5000);
System.out.println(empID2 + " = empID2");
/* Delete an employee from the database */
manager.deleteEmployee(empID2);
/* List down new list of the employees */
manager.listEmployees();
InsertRecords2 producer = context.getBean(InsertRecords2.class);
producer.updateProducts();//it's running insertion from inside
System.out.println("check if done");
}
}
Now place the SpringHibernateMain in a decent package like springboot.beans.app (as you had) and place the entities in springboot.beans.app.entities and everything else in springboot.beans.app.services (instead of what you have now).
The thing left for you is to "rewrite" your classes InsertRecords2 and ManageEmployee to use the EntityManager instead of the plain SessionFactory. It will still use Hibernate underneath but generally it is better to use JPA and only plain Hibernate in those cases you really need.

Spring JDBC MVC project gives 404

I've been fighting with the Spring framework for few weeks now, and I got
a normal MVC page to show up, and I got JDBC to print onto the console.
But I can't seem to get these to work together...
I've been through countless tutorials at this point and every one of them
seem to have some type of error or problem.
I think I've finally managed to get together a pretty decent and working build, but nope, still getting only 404's.
I think the problem might be in the spring-servlet.xml file:
<context:component-scan base-package="src" />
And I'm not sure if you can even load project like that, but it's the only thing I can think of here.
I include all the other files too, though.
Console Errors
WARNING: [SetPropertiesRule]{Server/Service/Engine/Host/Context} Setting property 'source' to 'org.eclipse.jst.jee.server:spring-mvc' did not find a matching property.
and
SEVERE: Servlet [spring] in web application [/spring-mvc] threw load() exception
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1275)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1109)
at org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.loadClass(DefaultInstanceManager.java:520)
at org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.loadClassMaybePrivileged(DefaultInstanceManager.java:501)
at org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.newInstance(DefaultInstanceManager.java:118)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1050)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:989)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:4903)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5213)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:183)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1419)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1409)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
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>spring-mvc</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-mvc</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<build>
<sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.5.1</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0</version>
<configuration>
<warSourceDirectory>WebContent</warSourceDirectory>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<properties>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
<spring.version>3.1.0.RELEASE</spring.version>
<cglib.version>2.2.2</cglib.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId>
<version>4.3.7.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
<version>4.3.7.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>4.3.7.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc-portlet</artifactId>
<version>4.3.7.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>taglibs</groupId>
<artifactId>standard</artifactId>
<version>1.1.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.gatein.common</groupId>
<artifactId>common-logging</artifactId>
<version>2.2.2.Final</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>jstl</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
<version>2.8.1</version>
<type>pom</type>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<version>6.0.5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-jdbc</artifactId>
<version>4.3.7.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
<version>4.3.7.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
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"
xsi:schemaLocation="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">
<!-- Telling container to take care of annotations stuff -->
<context:annotation-config />
<!-- Declaring base package -->
<context:component-scan base-package="controller" />
<!-- Adding view resolver to show jsp's on browser -->
<bean id="viewResolver"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/" />
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
</bean>
<!-- Declare beans -->
<bean id="userDao" class="dao.UserDaoImpl" />
<bean id="userService" class="services.UserServiceImpl" />
<!-- Declare datasource bean -->
<bean id="dataSource"
class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
<property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" />
<property name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/userdb" />
<property name="username" value="root" />
<property name="password" value="38613861" />
</bean>
</beans>
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>SpringJDBCTemplate</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>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
homePageController
package controller;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ModelAttribute;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestParam;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;
import domain.*;
import services.*;
#Controller
public class HomePageController {
#Autowired
UserService userService;
#RequestMapping("/register")
public ModelAndView registerUser(#ModelAttribute User user) {
List<String> genderList = new ArrayList<String>();
genderList.add("male");
genderList.add("female");
List<String> cityList = new ArrayList<String>();
cityList.add("delhi");
cityList.add("gurgaon");
cityList.add("meerut");
cityList.add("noida");
Map<String, List> map = new HashMap<String, List>();
map.put("genderList", genderList);
map.put("cityList", cityList);
return new ModelAndView("register", "map", map);
}
#RequestMapping("/insert")
public String inserData(#ModelAttribute User user) {
if (user != null)
userService.insertData(user);
return "redirect:/getList";
}
#RequestMapping("/getList")
public ModelAndView getUserLIst() {
List<User> userList = userService.getUserList();
return new ModelAndView("userList", "userList", userList);
}
#RequestMapping("/edit")
public ModelAndView editUser(#RequestParam String id,
#ModelAttribute User user) {
user = userService.getUser(id);
List<String> genderList = new ArrayList<String>();
genderList.add("male");
genderList.add("female");
List<String> cityList = new ArrayList<String>();
cityList.add("delhi");
cityList.add("gurgaon");
cityList.add("meerut");
cityList.add("noida");
Map<String, Object> map = new HashMap<String, Object>();
map.put("genderList", genderList);
map.put("cityList", cityList);
map.put("user", user);
return new ModelAndView("edit", "map", map);
}
#RequestMapping("/update")
public String updateUser(#ModelAttribute User user) {
userService.updateData(user);
return "redirect:/getList";
}
#RequestMapping("/delete")
public String deleteUser(#RequestParam String id) {
System.out.println("id = " + id);
userService.deleteData(id);
return "redirect:/getList";
}
}
Project tree
Project tree from Eclipse Neon2

Not my answer but the one which solved the case, posting as answers since it's buried deep in comments.
Sorry for the delay.... It still not right. I know that because
Eclipse should not show the package as main.java.controller.... Maven
ignores that folder and start right under the java folder as it was
the src folder itself. Something must be wrong on your project. Try
cleaning everything, remove the project from eclipse, delete
(physically) the folder .settings and the file .classpath and the file
.project. Go on your folder project on the console and run mvn clean
eclipse:clean then open all folders of if (like the image I showed to
you) and paste it here so I can see what it is wrong
– Jorge Campos

load external config file in spring batch admin

I downloaded the spring batch admin application in the github repo and I imported it in eclipse. it works perfectly.
Then, I asked myself how to import an external config file into the application that I can use in my job definition class.
I tried this :
VM Arguments
-Dspring.config.location=C:/path/to/config/file/application.properties
Job configuration
src/main/java
org.springframework.batch.admin.sample.job
-------------------------------------------
#Configuration
public class JobConfiguration {
//I try to import this properties from an external config file.
#Value("${folder.input.files}")
private String pathToFiles;
#Autowired
public JobBuilderFactory jobBuilderFactory;
#Autowired
public StepBuilderFactory stepBuilderFactory;
#Bean
#JobScope
public ExampleItemReader itemReader() {
return new ExampleItemReader();
}
#Bean
#StepScope
public ExampleItemWriter itemWriter(#Value("#{jobParameters[fail]}") Boolean fail) {
ExampleItemWriter itemWriter = new ExampleItemWriter();
itemWriter.setFail(fail);
return itemWriter;
}
#Bean
public Step step1() {
return stepBuilderFactory.get("step1")
.<String, Object>chunk(5)
.reader(itemReader())
.writer(itemWriter(null))
.build();
}
#Bean
public Job javaJob() {
return jobBuilderFactory.get("javaJob")
.start(step1())
.build();
}
}
XML configuration
src/main/resources
launch-context.xml
-----------------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" 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">
<description><![CDATA[
A convenient aggregating config file for running the jobs in this project
from the command line instead of from the web application. E.g.
$ MAVEN_OPTS="-Dbatch.jdbc.url=jdbc:hsqldb:hsql://localhost:9005/samples -Dbatch.data.source.init=false" \
mvn exec:java -Dexec.classpathScope=runtime \
-Dexec.mainClass=org.springframework.batch.core.launch.support.CommandLineJobRunner \
-Dexec.args="classpath:launch-context.xml job1 fail=false run.id=1"
]]>
</description>
<import resource="classpath*:/META-INF/spring/batch/bootstrap/**/*.xml" />
<import resource="classpath*:/META-INF/spring/batch/override/**/*.xml" />
<bean id="jobLauncherTaskExecutor" class="org.springframework.core.task.SyncTaskExecutor"/>
<!-- Try to add my external config file -->
<bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
<property name="locations">
<list>
<value>classpath:file:///${spring.config.location}</value>
</list>
</property>
<property name="systemPropertiesModeName" value="SYSTEM_PROPERTIES_MODE_OVERRIDE" />
<property name="ignoreResourceNotFound" value="true" />
<property name="ignoreUnresolvablePlaceholders" value="false" />
<property name="order" value="1" />
</bean>
</beans>
Stack trace when I launch the app with tomcat 7
18:54:38,528 ERROR localhost-startStop-1 context.ContextLoader:331 - Context initialization failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'jobConfiguration': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: private java.lang.String org.springframework.batch.admin.sample.job.JobConfiguration.pathToFiles; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not resolve placeholder 'folder.input.files' in string value "${folder.input.files}"
at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:334)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1204)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:538)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:476)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:302)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:229)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:298)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:193)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:762)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:757)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:480)
at org.springframework.batch.core.configuration.support.GenericApplicationContextFactory$ResourceAnnotationApplicationContext.<init>(GenericApplicationContextFactory.java:209)
at org.springframework.batch.core.configuration.support.GenericApplicationContextFactory.createApplicationContext(GenericApplicationContextFactory.java:70)
at org.springframework.batch.core.configuration.support.AbstractApplicationContextFactory.createApplicationContext(AbstractApplicationContextFactory.java:172)
at org.springframework.batch.core.configuration.support.DefaultJobLoader.doLoad(DefaultJobLoader.java:154)
at org.springframework.batch.core.configuration.support.DefaultJobLoader.load(DefaultJobLoader.java:147)
at org.springframework.batch.core.configuration.support.AutomaticJobRegistrar.start(AutomaticJobRegistrar.java:173)
at org.springframework.batch.core.configuration.support.AutomaticJobRegistrar.onApplicationEvent(AutomaticJobRegistrar.java:139)
at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.invokeListener(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:151)
at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:128)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.publishEvent(AbstractApplicationContext.java:331)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishRefresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:773)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:483)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:403)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:306)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:106)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4939)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5434)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1559)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1549)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: private java.lang.String org.springframework.batch.admin.sample.job.JobConfiguration.pathToFiles; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not resolve placeholder 'folder.input.files' in string value "${folder.input.files}"
at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredFieldElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:555)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.InjectionMetadata.inject(InjectionMetadata.java:87)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:331)
... 34 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not resolve placeholder 'folder.input.files' in string value "${folder.input.files}"
at org.springframework.util.PropertyPlaceholderHelper.parseStringValue(PropertyPlaceholderHelper.java:174)
at org.springframework.util.PropertyPlaceholderHelper.replacePlaceholders(PropertyPlaceholderHelper.java:126)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer$PlaceholderResolvingStringValueResolver.resolveStringValue(PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer.java:259)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.resolveEmbeddedValue(AbstractBeanFactory.java:800)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.doResolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:962)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.resolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:949)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredFieldElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:527)
... 36 more
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>
<artifactId>spring-batch-admin-sample</artifactId>
<description>A sample web application (WAR project) for Spring Batch Admin console.</description>
<parent>
<artifactId>spring-batch-admin-parent</artifactId>
<groupId>org.springframework.batch</groupId>
<version>2.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
<relativePath>../spring-batch-admin-parent</relativePath>
</parent>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>Web Sample</name>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-jdbc</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-dbcp</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-dbcp</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-io</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-collections</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectjweaver</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hsqldb</groupId>
<artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.freemarker</groupId>
<artifactId>freemarker</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.batch</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-batch-core</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.batch</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-batch-infrastructure</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.batch</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-batch-admin-manager</artifactId>
<version>2.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.batch</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-batch-admin-resources</artifactId>
<version>2.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
<artifactId>mockito-all</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<contextPath>/spring-batch-admin-sample</contextPath>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<skip>true</skip>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>spring-milestones</id>
<name>Spring Maven Milestone Repository</name>
<url>http://s3.amazonaws.com/maven.springframework.org/milestone</url>
<snapshots>
<enabled>false</enabled>
</snapshots>
</repository>
</repositories>
</project>
I tried this post and much more but without success.
I use exactly the same files and the same configuration than the spring batch admin github project.
Can someone tell me how to add the external configuration file to spring batch admin?

Spring batch admin searches configurations in specific paths.This page explains from which paths it loads resources:
<import resource="classpath*:/META-INF/spring/batch/bootstrap/**/*.xml"/>
<import resource="classpath*:/META-INF/spring/batch/override/**/*.xml"/>
Note that the "override" location has no files in it in Spring Batch
Admin distribution. This is a placeholder for users to add their own
content.
We managed to load external properties files placing xml configuration file under src/main/resources/META-INF/spring/batch/override/manager/env-context.xml which looks like this:
<?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">
<!-- Use this to set additional properties on beans at run time -->
<bean id="placeholderProperties"
class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
<property name="locations">
<list>
<value>classpath:/org/springframework/batch/admin/bootstrap/batch.properties</value>
<value>classpath:batch-default.properties</value>
<value>classpath:batch-${ENVIRONMENT:hsql}.properties</value>
<value>classpath:batch-${ENVIRONMENT:mysql}.properties</value>
<!-- here we load properties from external config folder -->
<value>file:${spring.file.location}</value>
</list>
</property>
<property name="systemPropertiesModeName" value="SYSTEM_PROPERTIES_MODE_OVERRIDE" />
<property name="ignoreResourceNotFound" value="false" />
<property name="ignoreUnresolvablePlaceholders" value="false" />
<property name="order" value="1" />
</bean>
</beans>

Under main folder of spring-batch-admin template, there are three folders - java, resources and webapp. Under resources there are some property files and META-INF folder. within META-INF there are two folders - batch and servlet.
Here If I want to add new property file "batch.properties" under resources and want to refer the property values from configuration (xml) files from "META-INF/batch/*.xml" in addition to the properties from spring-batch-admin-manager-1.0.0.M1.jar,
1. where to add below entries
Where to keep "env-context.xml". Under which folders, coz in "src/main/resources/META-INF" i can see only one folder batch.
I tried to create "spring/batch/override/manager/env-context.xml" under "src/main/resources/META-INF" but not able to read the property file entries.
If you provide your working application folder structure will help me a lot.

You can put your env-context.xml file on spring/batch/servlet/override/env-context.xml folder.

Accessing resources in JSP page of Spring MVC app

I am fairly new to spring and I am having issues with accessing my resources in my Spring mvc app. I have tried Google and using stack overflow to find an answer (none of these helped me possible solution 1 , or possible solution, possible solution 3, spring framework ) but I have found none that have either solved my problem or improved my understanding of the problem (it may be simply because I didn't quite understand the mentioned solutions).
I have managed to embedded my css file into a webpage but using the code:
<%#include file="css/style.css" %>
but I cannot access it using a URL this way for obvious reasons. I have also tried using the following in my web.xml file but it has no effect, I admit I don't really understand the mapping in this case so that may be an issue
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<mvc:resources mapping="/images/**" location="/images/" />
<mvc:resources mapping="/css/**" location="/css/" />
I have also tried using each of the following separately:
<img src="<%=request.getContextPath()%>/images/logo.jpg"/>
<img src="<%=request.getContextPath()%>/src/main/resources/images/logo.jpg"/>
This is my project layout:
This is my 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>MyProject Application</display-name>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>myServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>myServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
This is my myServlet-servlet.xml:
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
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-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/mvc
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd">
<!-- -->
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<mvc:resources mapping="/images/**" location="/images/" />
<mvc:resources mapping="/css/**" location="/css/" />
<bean name="/index.html"
class="com.myproject.controller.AdminController" />
<bean id="viewResolver"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver" >
<property name="prefix">
<value>/WEB-INF/pages/</value>
</property>
<property name="suffix">
<value>.jsp</value>
</property>
</bean>
</beans>
and just in case here is my 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.myproject</groupId>
<artifactId>myProject</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>myProject Maven Webapp</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<properties>
<springVersion>3.0.4.RELEASE</springVersion>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<!-- JUnit -->
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- ORACLE JDBC driver, need install yourself -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.oracle</groupId>
<artifactId>ojdbc6</artifactId>
<version>11.2.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
<version>3.6.3.Final</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Spring framework -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
<version>${springVersion}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
<version>${springVersion}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>${springVersion}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
<version>${springVersion}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
<version>${springVersion}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- for compile only, your container should have this -->
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Commons-logging & log4j -->
<dependency>
<groupId>log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
<version>1.2.12</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
<version>1.1.1</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>admin_UI</finalName>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
<configuration>
<webappDirectory>/sample/servlet/container/deploy/directory</webappDirectory>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
I would be happy if I can get access the images and css folders and the contents those folders from within the webapp/WEB-INF/pages the same way I can access my jsp pages (ie via URL), but Ideally I would like to understand how I should do this correctly i.e. what folder I should be mapping (src\main\resources or src\main\webapp\WEB-INF\some_resource_folder) and how I should map it.
If any more information is require I would be happy to supply.

You should place all of your static web content such as images, css and javascript in a resources directory under the webcontent (root directory) directory.
Then in myServlet-servlet.xml specify the directory as a resources directory. This will tell the dispatcher not to process requests for static resources.
<!-- Handles HTTP GET requests for /resources/** by efficiently serving up static resources in the ${webappRoot}/resources directory -->
<mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" />
In your jsp files you should then access these resources using a root relative url that relies upon the context path resolved by JSP EL.
<link href="${pageContext.servletContext.contextPath}/resources/My_CSS.css" rel="stylesheet"/>

When using this:
<mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/META-INF/RESOURCES/" />
use this code in jsp :
<link href="<c:url value="/"/>resources/My_CSS.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
Look the difference.
CAPS RESOURCES locates file path.
and resources locates in web path

Set the resource order as below
<mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" order="-1"/>

Instead of mixing JSTL and JSP EL, you can configure spring like this :
<mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/WEB-INF/pages/" />
in your case,in the JSP use the following :
<link href="<c:url value="/resources/My_CSS.css"/>" rel="stylesheet"/>

In your jsp file you should set,
<c:set var="context" value="${pageContext.request.contextPath}" />
and your resource files js, css, img etc. include them with,
<script src="${context}/resources/your.file.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="${context}/resources/your.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
Also you should use this before href to controller links, like
<a href="${context}/yourPage">
In this way you can use context path that is defined in servlet container or app server Tomcat, jetty etc.