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Spring MVC Test setup fails on loading ApplicationContext.xml

Currently I'm trying to setup Spring MVC Controller testing for a school project I'm working on next to my job. Normally I program in php and frameworks like Laravel so this is pretty new for me. The problem is that I can't figure out how to solve the problem that keeps popping up on loading the ApplicationContext. Any help is appreciated.
Update:
I'm now told that test cases don't use a jndi ref in my app server. So this reference would fail on a test case, it runs fine on starting the application. Now I made a second file called servlet-test.xml (listed below) that uses a reference to the database on port 3306. I only use this file on tests not when starting up the application. But when I use this method I get Following error: Error creating bean with name 'productController': Injection of autowired dependencies failed. Any help is welcome as I'm struggling to setup MVC Controller tests for my school project. Other students I've been working with also are stuck with the same problem I am so I could help them out too.
I suspect the problem is the following, but I'm not sure how to solve this.
Error creating bean with name 'myDataSource' defined in URL
[file:web/WEB-INF/servlet.xml]: Invocation of init method failed;
nested exception is javax.naming.NamingException: Lookup failed for
'java:app/fotoproducent' ...
The Error Stack Trace
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to load ApplicationContext
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'entityManagerFactory' defined in URL [file:web/WEB-INF/servlet.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'myDataSource' while setting bean property 'dataSource'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'myDataSource' defined in URL [file:web/WEB-INF/servlet.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is javax.naming.NamingException: Lookup failed for 'java:app/fotoproducent' in SerialContext[myEnv={java.naming.factory.initial=com.sun.enterprise.naming.impl.SerialInitContextFactory, java.naming.factory.url.pkgs=com.sun.enterprise.naming, java.naming.factory.state=com.sun.corba.ee.impl.presentation.rmi.JNDIStateFactoryImpl} [Root exception is javax.naming.NamingException: Invocation exception: Got null ComponentInvocation ]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:328)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveValueIfNecessary(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:107)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyPropertyValues(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1456)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1197)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:537)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:475)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:304)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:228)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:300)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:195)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.getBean(AbstractApplicationContext.java:973)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:750)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:482)
at org.springframework.test.context.support.AbstractGenericContextLoader.loadContext(AbstractGenericContextLoader.java:121)
at org.springframework.test.context.support.AbstractGenericContextLoader.loadContext(AbstractGenericContextLoader.java:60)
at org.springframework.test.context.support.AbstractDelegatingSmartContextLoader.delegateLoading(AbstractDelegatingSmartContextLoader.java:100)
at org.springframework.test.context.support.AbstractDelegatingSmartContextLoader.loadContext(AbstractDelegatingSmartContextLoader.java:250)
at org.springframework.test.context.CacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.loadContextInternal(CacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.java:64)
at org.springframework.test.context.CacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.loadContext(CacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.java:91)
The Controller test i'm trying to run:
ProductController Test
package controller.tests.config;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
import org.springframework.test.web.servlet.MockMvc;
import org.springframework.web.context.WebApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.test.web.servlet.ResultMatcher;
import org.springframework.test.web.servlet.request.MockHttpServletRequestBuilder;
import org.springframework.test.web.servlet.request.MockMvcRequestBuilders;
import org.springframework.test.web.servlet.setup.MockMvcBuilders;
import org.springframework.test.web.servlet.result.MockMvcResultMatchers;
import org.springframework.test.web.servlet.setup.DefaultMockMvcBuilder;
#RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
#ContextConfiguration({"file:web/WEB-INF/servlet-test.xml", "file:web/WEB-INF/dispatcher-servlet.xml"})
public class ProductControllerTest {
#Autowired
private WebApplicationContext wac;
private MockMvc mockMvc;
#Before
public void setup() {
DefaultMockMvcBuilder builder = MockMvcBuilders.webAppContextSetup(this.wac);
this.mockMvc = builder.build();
}
#Test
public void testProductAction() throws Exception {
ResultMatcher ok = MockMvcResultMatchers.status().isOk();
ResultMatcher msg = MockMvcResultMatchers.model()
.attribute("msg", "Spring quick start!!");
MockHttpServletRequestBuilder builder = MockMvcRequestBuilders.get("/product");
this.mockMvc.perform(builder)
.andExpect(ok)
.andExpect(msg);
}
}
servlet.xml / applicationContext.xml file
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-4.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd">
<!-- module/package declarations -->
<context:component-scan base-package="Application" />
<context:component-scan base-package="Authentication" />
<context:component-scan base-package="Photo" />
<context:component-scan base-package="Product" />
<context:component-scan base-package="Organisation" />
<context:component-scan base-package="Login" />
<context:component-scan base-package="UI" />
<context:component-scan base-package="I18n" />
<context:component-scan base-package="Internationalization" />
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix">
<value>/WEB-INF/views/</value>
</property>
<property name="suffix">
<value>.jsp</value>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="myDataSource" class="org.springframework.jndi.JndiObjectFactoryBean" scope="singleton">
<property name="jndiName" value="java:app/fotoproducent" />
<property name="resourceRef" value="true" />
</bean>
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" />
<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager">
<property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactory" />
</bean>
<bean id="entityManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="myDataSource" />
<property name="persistenceXmlLocation" value="classpath:META-INF/persistence.xml" />
<property name="packagesToScan" value="*" />
<property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
<bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter">
<property name="showSql" value="true" />
<property name="databasePlatform" value="org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect" />
</bean>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="multipartResolver" class="org.springframework.web.multipart.commons.CommonsMultipartResolver"/>
<mvc:resources mapping="/static/**" location="/static/"/>
<mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" />
<mvc:default-servlet-handler/>
<mvc:annotation-driven />
</beans>
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:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
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-4.0.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 class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.support.ControllerClassNameHandlerMap ping"/>
<bean id="urlMapping" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping">
<property name="mappings">
<props>
<prop key="index.html">indexController</prop>
<prop key="test.html">testController</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="viewResolver"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver"
p:prefix="/WEB-INF/views/"
p:suffix=".jsp" />
<!--
The index controller.
-->
<bean name="indexController"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.ParameterizableViewController"
p:viewName="index" />
<!--
The test controller.
-->
<bean name="testController"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.ParameterizableViewController"
p:viewName="test" />
</beans>
Update 1: "DataSource Configuration"
This shows how the datasource is configured.
glassfish-resources.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE resources PUBLIC "-//GlassFish.org//DTD GlassFish Application Server 3.1 Resource Definitions//EN" "http://glassfish.org/dtds/glassfish-resources_1_5.dtd">
<resources>
<jdbc-connection-pool allow-non-component-callers="false" associate-with-thread="false" connection-creation-retry-attempts="0" connection-creation-retry-interval-in-seconds="10" connection-leak-reclaim="false" connection-leak-timeout-in-seconds="0" connection-validation-method="auto-commit" datasource-classname="com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlDataSource" fail-all-connections="false" idle-timeout-in-seconds="300" is-connection-validation-required="false" is-isolation-level-guaranteed="true" lazy-connection-association="false" lazy-connection-enlistment="false" match-connections="false" max-connection-usage-count="0" max-pool-size="32" max-wait-time-in-millis="60000" name="mysql_fotoproducent_rootPool" non-transactional-connections="false" pool-resize-quantity="2" res-type="javax.sql.DataSource" statement-timeout-in-seconds="-1" steady-pool-size="8" validate-atmost-once-period-in-seconds="0" wrap-jdbc-objects="false">
<property name="serverName" value="localhost"/>
<property name="portNumber" value="3306"/>
<property name="databaseName" value="fotoproducent"/>
<property name="User" value="root"/>
<property name="Password" value="password"/>
<property name="URL" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/fotoproducent?zeroDateTimeBehavior=convertToNull"/>
<property name="driverClass" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>
</jdbc-connection-pool>
<jdbc-resource enabled="true" jndi-name="app/fotoproducent" object-type="user" pool-name="mysql_fotoproducent_rootPool"/>
</resources>
Update 2: Additional Bean Config file (servlet-test.xml)
This results in beans not being loaded. Following error: Error creating bean with name 'productController': Injection of autowired dependencies failed
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-4.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd">
<context:annotation-config/>
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<!-- module/package declarations -->
<context:component-scan base-package="Application" />
<context:component-scan base-package="Authentication" />
<context:component-scan base-package="Photo" />
<context:component-scan base-package="Product" />
<context:component-scan base-package="Organisation" />
<context:component-scan base-package="Login" />
<context:component-scan base-package="UI" />
<context:component-scan base-package="I18n" />
<context:component-scan base-package="Internationalization" />
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix">
<value>/WEB-INF/views/</value>
</property>
<property name="suffix">
<value>.jsp</value>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="myDataSource" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
<property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" />
<property name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/fotoproducent?zeroDateTimeBehavior=convertToNull" />
<property name="username" value="root" />
<property name="password" value="password" />
</bean>
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" />
<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager">
<property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactory" />
</bean>
<bean id="entityManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="myDataSource" />
<property name="persistenceXmlLocation" value="classpath:META-INF/persistence.xml" />
<property name="packagesToScan" value="*" />
<property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
<bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter">
<property name="showSql" value="true" />
<property name="databasePlatform" value="org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect" />
</bean>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="multipartResolver" class="org.springframework.web.multipart.commons.CommonsMultipartResolver"/>
<mvc:resources mapping="/static/**" location="/static/"/>
<mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" />
</beans>
Update 3: Additional Code for problem resolving
Product Controller
package Product.Controller;
import Product.Sevice.ProductService;
import javax.persistence.EntityManager;
import javax.persistence.PersistenceContext;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.ui.ModelMap;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
#Controller
#RequestMapping("/product")
public class ProductController {
#Autowired
protected ProductService service;
#RequestMapping(value = "", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String productAction(ModelMap model)
{
model.put("productList", this.service.findAll());
return "product/overview";
}
}
Product Service
package Product.Sevice;
import Product.Entity.Product;
import java.util.List;
import javax.persistence.EntityManager;
import javax.persistence.PersistenceContext;
import javax.persistence.Query;
import javax.transaction.Transactional;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
#Service
public class ProductService {
#PersistenceContext
private EntityManager em;
#Transactional
public void insert(Product product)
{
// insert into database
// persist function is for NEW entities in database
this.em.persist(product);
}
#Transactional
public Product get(Integer id)
{
// this gets the entity from the database and returns it
return this.em.find(Product.class, (long) id);
}
#Transactional
public Product update(Product product)
{
// this updates the ExampleEntity in within the database
return this.em.merge(product);
}
#Transactional
public void remove(Integer id)
{
Product product = this.em.find(Product.class, (long) id);
product.delete();
// this updates the product in within the database
this.update(product);
}
#Transactional
public List<Product> findAll()
{
Query q = this.em.createNamedQuery("product.namedquery", Product.class);
return q.getResultList();
}
}

According to your stack trace when application context is initializing it still try to load wrong configuration files (servlet.xml), but should load servlet-test.xml. Please try to change your config locations with using path from root (src) folder, such as:
#ContextConfiguration({"file:src/main/web/WEB-INF/servlet-test.xml", "file:src/main/web/WEB-INF/dispatcher-servlet.xml"})
P.S Also you can try to move your config for tests (servlet-test.xml) to src/test/resources and load it from classpath: "classpath:servlet-test.xml". Also you can check this thread on stackoverflow: Spring #ContextConfiguration how to put the right location for the xml for extended discussion of similar problem.

You get an error which says that Spring IOC container fails to create and instantiate entityManagerFactory bean. Why?
That's another thing that your error exception mention. It fails to do so because it can't instantiate the myDataSource bean. Why?
According to your error message:
Lookup failed for 'java:app/fotoproducent'
It means that when IOC Spring container tried to create myDataSource bean, it failed to do so because it failed to set the jndiName with value of java:app/fotoproducent
Instead of using this:
<bean id="myDataSource" class="org.springframework.jndi.JndiObjectFactoryBean" scope="singleton">
<property name="jndiName" value="java:app/fotoproducent" />
<property name="resourceRef" value="true" />
</bean>
Replace it with:
<bean id="myDataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp2.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close">
<property name="driverClassName" value="your_driver_class_name" />
<property name="url" value="url_to_your_db" />
<property name="username" value="user_name_to_db" />
<property name="password" value="password_to_db" />
</bean>
My suggestion is to create a standard dataSource like mentioned on Spring docs above.
Now don't forget to replace the values for driver class name, url, user name, and password.
Here is an example from Spring docs, of how to define a data source for use of Hibernate ORM: http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/htmlsingle/#orm-hibernate

Spring 3.2.4, EclipseLink 2.5, Glassfish 3.1.2 and JPA 2.1

I'm very new in the world of Spring and Glassfish. I've been fighting with the configuration of the one application using these topics, but I don't get create the application. Anybody can help me please?
I want to create an application with one persistence.xml, jndi data source, generic dao configuration.
Thanks for your help!
Here is my code, but I think that there are some conflicts with the configuration.
persistence.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence version="2.1"
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_1.xsd">
<persistence-unit name="spartanPU" transaction-type="JTA">
<provider>org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.PersistenceProvider</provider>
<jta-data-source>jdbc/__spartanDS</jta-data-source>
<class>com.spartan.model.entities.SourceEntity</class>
<properties>
<property name="eclipselink.logging.level.sql" value="FINE" />
<property name="eclipselink.logging.parameters" value="true" />
<property name="eclipselink.logging.level" value="FINE" />
<property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.driver" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" />
<property name="eclipselink.ddl-generation" value="none" />
<property name="eclipselink.target-database" value="MySQL" />
<property name="eclipselink.jdbc.native-sql" value="true" />
<property name="eclipselink.jdbc.cache-statements" value="true" />
</properties>
</persistence-unit>
dao-bean.xml
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.2.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.2.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.2.xsd"
default-lazy-init="true" default-autowire="no">
<tx:annotation-driven />
<bean id="sourceDao" class="com.spartan.model.daos.SourceDao">
<property name="entityClass" >
<bean class="com.spartan.model.entities.SourceEntity" />
</property>
</bean>
application-context.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:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.2.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.2.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee-3.2.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.2.xsd"
default-autowire="no">
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" />
<context:annotation-config />
<jee:jndi-lookup id="dataSource" jndi-name="jdbc/__spartanDS" />
<import resource="classpath:com/spartan/model/spring/dao-beans.xml" />
<bean id="entityManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
<property name="persistenceXmlLocation" value="classpath:META-INF/persistence.xml" />
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<property name="persistenceUnitName" value="spartanPU" />
<property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
<bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.EclipseLinkJpaVendorAdapter">
<property name="showSql" value="true" />
<property name="generateDdl" value="false" />
<property name="databasePlatform" value="org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect" />
</bean>
</property>
<property name="jpaDialect">
<bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.EclipseLinkJpaDialect"/>
</property>
<property name="loadTimeWeaver">
<bean class="org.springframework.instrument.classloading.ReflectiveLoadTimeWeaver"/>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager">
<property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactory" />
</bean>
<bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.support.PersistenceAnnotationBeanPostProcessor" />
<!-- Exception translation bean post processor -->
<bean class="org.springframework.dao.annotation.PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor" />
<bean class="org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.DefaultAdvisorAutoProxyCreator" />
<bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor"/>
BaseDao.java
import java.lang.reflect.ParameterizedType;
import javax.persistence.EntityManager;
import javax.persistence.PersistenceContext;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Repository;
import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.Transactional;
#Repository
#Transactional
public abstract class BaseDao<PK, T> implements IBaseDao<PK, T> {
protected T entityClass;
#PersistenceContext
protected EntityManager entityManager;
#SuppressWarnings({ "unchecked" })
public BaseDao() {
ParameterizedType genericSuperclass = (ParameterizedType) getClass()
.getGenericSuperclass();
this.entityClass = ((T) genericSuperclass.getActualTypeArguments()[0]);
}
#Transactional
public T create(T entity) {
this.entityManager.persist(entity);
this.entityManager.flush();
return entity;
}
public T read(PK id) {
return null;
}
public T update(T entity) {
this.entityManager.merge(entity);
this.entityManager.flush();
return entity;
}
public void delete(T entity) {
this.entityManager.remove(entity);
}
public void setEntityClass(T entityClass) {
this.entityClass = entityClass;
}
}
Actually with this configuration when I tried to persist something the glassfish server give me the next stack trace.
Stack Trace
javax.persistence.TransactionRequiredException:
Exception Description: No transaction is currently active
at org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.transaction.EntityTransactionWrapper.throwCheckTransactionFailedException(EntityTransactionWrapper.java:113)
at org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.transaction.EntityTransactionWrapper.checkForTransaction(EntityTransactionWrapper.java:50)
at org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.EntityManagerImpl.checkForTransaction(EntityManagerImpl.java:1776)
at org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.EntityManagerImpl.flush(EntityManagerImpl.java:780)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
at org.springframework.orm.jpa.ExtendedEntityManagerCreator$ExtendedEntityManagerInvocationHandler.invoke(ExtendedEntityManagerCreator.java:366)
at $Proxy329.flush(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
at org.springframework.orm.jpa.SharedEntityManagerCreator$SharedEntityManagerInvocationHandler.invoke(SharedEntityManagerCreator.java:241)
at $Proxy327.flush(Unknown Source)
at com.spartan.model.daos.BaseDao.create(BaseDao.java:35)
at com.spartan.web.controllers.MovieController.getMovie(MovieController.java:23)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
at org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.support.HandlerMethodInvoker.invokeHandlerMethod(HandlerMethodInvoker.java:176)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.invokeHandlerMethod(AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.java:440)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.handle(AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.java:428)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:925)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:856)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:936)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:827)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:668)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.service(FrameworkServlet.java:812)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:770)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.service(StandardWrapper.java:1550)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:281)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:175)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:655)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:595)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:161)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.doService(CoyoteAdapter.java:331)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:231)
at com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.ContainerMapper$AdapterCallable.call(ContainerMapper.java:317)
at com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.ContainerMapper.service(ContainerMapper.java:195)
at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.invokeAdapter(ProcessorTask.java:860)
at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.doProcess(ProcessorTask.java:757)
at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.process(ProcessorTask.java:1056)
at com.sun.grizzly.http.DefaultProtocolFilter.execute(DefaultProtocolFilter.java:229)
at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.executeProtocolFilter(DefaultProtocolChain.java:137)
at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.execute(DefaultProtocolChain.java:104)
at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.execute(DefaultProtocolChain.java:90)
at com.sun.grizzly.http.HttpProtocolChain.execute(HttpProtocolChain.java:79)
at com.sun.grizzly.ProtocolChainContextTask.doCall(ProtocolChainContextTask.java:54)
at com.sun.grizzly.SelectionKeyContextTask.call(SelectionKeyContextTask.java:59)
at com.sun.grizzly.ContextTask.run(ContextTask.java:71)
at com.sun.grizzly.util.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.doWork(AbstractThreadPool.java:532)
at com.sun.grizzly.util.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.run(AbstractThreadPool.java:513)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)

I notice a couple of things with your configuration
You have multiple <tx:annotation-driven ../> tags, this is at least confusing
<context:annotation-driven ../> already implies the PersistenceAnnotationBeanPostProcessor, PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor and utowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.
The DefaultAdvisorAutoProxyCreator is also already present (your config can lead to proxing a proxy)
What is it you want JTA or not? Your persistence.xml gives the impression you want JTA however you fail to configure a JtaTransactionManager, you have a JpaTransactionManager which is to be used for local transactions. Either remove JTA from persistence.xml or configure a JtaTransactionManager.
When you want JtaTransaction you need to set the jtaDataSource property of the LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean instead and you probably need some additional configuration for EclipseLink also.
In your dao don't call flush, persist should already directly go to the database, next to that flushing should be in general be left to the ORM provider itself.

What does this eclipse error mean?

log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.springframework.core.env.StandardEnvironment).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.beans.factory.CannotLoadBeanClassException: Cannot find class [org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager] for bean with name 'transactionManager' defined in class path resource [spring_hibernate.xml]; nested exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.resolveBeanClass(AbstractBeanFactory.java:1275)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.predictBeanType(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:575)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.isFactoryBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:1344)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.isFactoryBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:910)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:607)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:932)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:479)
at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:139)
at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:83)
at com.App.main(App.java:14)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at org.springframework.util.ClassUtils.forName(ClassUtils.java:260)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinition.resolveBeanClass(AbstractBeanDefinition.java:416)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doResolveBeanClass(AbstractBeanFactory.java:1296)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.resolveBeanClass(AbstractBeanFactory.java:1267)
... 9 more
Class
package com;
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;
import com.entity.Ws_security;
import com.services.Interface_ws_security_services;
public class App {
private static ApplicationContext ctx1;
public static void main(String[] args) {
ctx1 = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("spring_hibernate.xml");
Interface_ws_security_services service=(Interface_ws_security_services) ctx1.getBean("a");
Ws_security ess=new Ws_security();
ess.setIDws("ess1");
ess.setLogin("ess2");
service.addws(ess);
System.out.println("Done");
}
}
Config file for Spring Hibernate
<?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:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
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-3.2.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.2.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.2.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.2.xsd">
<context:component-scan base-package="java.com" />
<context:annotation-config />
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager"/>
<bean id="transactionManager"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
</bean>
<bean id="dataSource"
class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
<property name="driverClassName" value="org.postgresql.Driver" />
<property name="url" value="jdbc:postgresql://localhost/webservices" />
<property name="username" value="postgres" />
<property name="password" value="1234" />
</bean>
<bean id="sessionFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<property name="packagesToScan" value="java.com" />
<property name="hibernateProperties">
<props>
<prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">update</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
</beans>
I am using Maven, Spring and Hibernate. I do not understand this problem. I try to insert some data to my database, but my project does not work.

It is clearly telling in the exception trace:
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager
So you are missing spring orm jar file in your classpath, add it in your class path and retest it.
If you are using maven then add this dependency into your pom file:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
<version>3.1.3.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
Correct spring <version> tag value depending on your spring version.

You need to add the spring orm jar file to your class path. To do this add the jar file to the workspace. Next right click on your project and select properties. Then go to the side tab "Java build path" then the top tab "Libraries" then press "Add jars" and navigate to the location of the jar file.

Failed to load ApplicationContext caused by ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in ClassReader

When I am running junit test class the below exception arises? How can i resolve this?
Failed to load ApplicationContext
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to load ApplicationContext
at org.springframework.test.context.TestContext.getApplicationContext(TestContext.java:157)
at org.springframework.test.context.support.DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.injectDependencies(DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.java:109)
at org.springframework.test.context.support.DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.prepareTestInstance(DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.java:75)
at org.springframework.test.context.TestContextManager.prepareTestInstance(TestContextManager.java:321)
at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.createTest(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:211)
at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner$1.runReflectiveCall(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:288)
at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.methodBlock(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:290)
at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:231)
at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.statements.RunBeforeTestClassCallbacks.evaluate(RunBeforeTestClassCallbacks.java:61)
at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.statements.RunAfterTestClassCallbacks.evaluate(RunAfterTestClassCallbacks.java:71)
at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.run(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:174)
Caused by: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 8
at org.springframework.asm.ClassReader.readUnsignedShort(Unknown Source)
at org.springframework.asm.ClassReader.<init>(Unknown Source)
at org.springframework.asm.ClassReader.<init>(Unknown Source)
at org.springframework.asm.ClassReader.<init>(Unknown Source)
at org.springframework.core.type.classreading.SimpleMetadataReader.<init>(SimpleMetadataReader.java:48)
at org.springframework.core.type.classreading.SimpleMetadataReaderFactory.getMetadataReader(SimpleMetadataReaderFactory.java:80)
at org.springframework.core.type.classreading.CachingMetadataReaderFactory.getMetadataReader(CachingMetadataReaderFactory.java:101)
at org.springframework.core.type.classreading.SimpleMetadataReaderFactory.getMetadataReader(SimpleMetadataReaderFactory.java:76)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassUtils.checkConfigurationClassCandidate(ConfigurationClassUtils.java:70)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.processConfigBeanDefinitions(ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.java:233)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.postProcessBeanDefinitionRegistry(ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.java:203)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.invokeBeanFactoryPostProcessors(AbstractApplicationContext.java:617)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:446)
at org.springframework.test.context.support.AbstractGenericContextLoader.loadContext(AbstractGenericContextLoader.java:103)
at org.springframework.test.context.support.AbstractGenericContextLoader.loadContext(AbstractGenericContextLoader.java:1)
at org.springframework.test.context.support.DelegatingSmartContextLoader.loadContext(DelegatingSmartContextLoader.java:228)
at org.springframework.test.context.TestContext.loadApplicationContext(TestContext.java:124)
my test class is
#RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
#ContextConfiguration(locations="classpath:dispatcher-servlet.xml")
public class CandidateDAOImplTest{
#Autowired
public CandidateDAO candidateService;
#Test
public void testGetCandidate() {...}
}
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:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.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
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd"
>
<context:component-scan base-package="com.global" />
<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
<property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView" />
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/" />
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
</bean>
<bean id="messageSource" class="org.springframework.context.support.ResourceBundleMessageSource">
<property name="basenames">
<list>
<value>mymessages</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
<bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
<property name="location">
<value>database.properties</value>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
<property name="driverClassName" value="${jdbc.driverClassName}" />
<property name="url" value="${jdbc.url}" />
<property name="username" value="${jdbc.username}" />
<property name="password" value="${jdbc.password}" />
</bean>
<!-- Configures the #Controller programming model -->
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<bean id="jdbcTemplate" class="org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate">
<property name="dataSource">
<ref bean="dataSource" />
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="candidateService" class="com.global.dao.impl.CandidateDAOImpl">
<property name="jdbcTemplate" ref="jdbcTemplate" />
</bean>
<!-- Define a Transaction Manager -->
<bean id="txManager" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceTransactionManager">
<property name="dataSource">
<ref bean="dataSource" />
</property>
</bean>
<!-- Turn on support for transaction annotations -->
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="txManager"/>
</beans>
its located at web/WEB-INF/dispatcher-servlet.xml.
I am using netbeams ied 7.3 and glassfish server 3.0

Most likely you have lambda expression inside one of your spring beans. Apparently, spring 3 beans can't initialize if there is a lambda somewhere in their code. In case migration to spring 4 is not an option, try to rewrite your lambda expressions using anonymous classes, like
Function<A,B> lambda = new Function() {
public B apply(A s) { ... }
}
or move lambda code out of the spring bean. I had the same issue and it helped me, I could still use spring 3 with jre/jdk 8.
Avoids this failure:
Caused by: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 10348
at org.springframework.asm.ClassReader.<init>(Unknown Source)

You have not stated which JDK you are using. If you are using 1.8 then you might find that you will need to upgrade Spring to 4 (or 3.2.9+ as yurez has pointed out).
See the answer to this question:
Java 1.8 ASM ClassReader failed to parse class file - probably due to a new Java class file version that isn't supported yet

The problem is the location of your xml file. WEB-INF is not part of the classpath. Try copying it under the "src" folder.

Try putting the file under src folder. It will be then copied to the WEB-INF/classes folder. Then you can refer to it as classpath:dispatcher-servlet.xml.
If the file is not directly under the classes directory, then you cannot use the location as classpath:dispatcher-servlet.xml in your test

There seems to be some invalid class file on your classpath.
A blog(http://blog.163.com/mxl_880310/blog/static/1847222162012320102631220/) (in Traditional Chinese) describes a similar problem, the author solves it by checking if there is a zero size class file.

Difficulty Using Spring in a JAR With Hibernate

I am attempting to split out the Hibernate DAO and Model Object layer from an existing application so they can be used across multiple applications. Unfortunately, I'm not having much success: a NoSuchBeanDefinitionException is thrown when trying to get the SessionFactory from the Application Context.
All of DAO classes extend a class called GenericDaoHibernate2. Each DAO extends this, and passes a Class in the constructor. Pretty standard Generic DAO stuff.
I figured this would be the logical place to set the session factory as well (there are ALOT of DAO classes). So, in the constructor class, I did this:
public GenericDaoHibernate2(final Class<T> persistentClass) {
ctx = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("META-INF/applicationContext-dao.xml");
this.sessionFactory = (SessionFactory) ctx.getBean(SessionFactory.class);
log.debug("Value of app context: " + ctx.toString());
log.debug("Value of sessionFactory: " + sessionFactory);
this.persistentClass = persistentClass;
}
Unfortunately, this blew up with the previously mentioned exception:
Caused By: org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No matching bean of type [org.hibernate.SessionFactory] found for dependency: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for this dependency. Dependency annotations: {}
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.raiseNoSuchBeanDefinitionException(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:924)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.doResolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:793)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.resolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:707)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredMethodElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:551)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.InjectionMetadata.inject(InjectionMetadata.java:87)
Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace
I've also attempted this with the app context file just in the classpath, setting the value when declaring the variable, etc, etc.
I'm guessing what is happing is that as part of the Maven build, the jar isn't referencing the libraries on the classpath, but I really don't know...
UPDATE: Stupid, stupid me... forgot to show the application context file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
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-3.1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee
http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee-3.1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.1.xsd"
default-lazy-init="true">
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" />
<context:component-scan base-package="org.jason.dao.hibernate" />
<bean id="dataSource"
class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
<property name="driverClassName" value="oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver" />
<property name="url" value="jdbc:oracle:thin:#//192.168.1.1/db01" />
<property name="username" value="USER" />
<property name="password" value="PASSWORD" />
</bean>
<!-- Hibernate SessionFactory -->
<bean id="sessionFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<property name="hibernateProperties">
<props>
<prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle10gDialect</prop>
<prop key="hibername.format_sql">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.jdbc.use_get_generated_keys">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.cglib.use_reflection_optimizer">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.default_catalog">CATALOG</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.cache.use_second_level_cache">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.cache.region.factory_class">org.hibernate.cache.ehcache.SingletonEhCacheRegionFactory
</prop>
</props>
</property>
<property name="packagesToScan">
<list>
<value>org.jason.model</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
</beans>
Another update: Was asked for a sample DAO. The interface is a "standard" generic interface, accepting the generic paramters T and PK, just like the Impl. The following one doesn't have any specific methods other than what it inherits from GenericDaoHibernate2.
#Repository("AreaOfPreferenceDAO")
public class HibernateAreaOfPreferenceDAO extends GenericDaoHibernate2<AreaOfPreference, AreaOfPreferenceCompositeId> implements AreaOfPreferenceDAO {
public HibernateAreaOfPreferenceDAO()
{
super(AreaOfPreference.class);
}
}

In order to wire in the SessionFactory into your custom generic DAO, you can go ahead and simply use #Autowire, as long as the overall Spring context is defining the SessionFactory bean.
To define the bean:
<bean id="sessionFactory" class=
"org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<property name="packagesToScan" value="org.rest" />
<property name="hibernateProperties">
...
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="dataSource" class=
"org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
<property name="driverClassName" value="${driverClassName}" />
<property name="url" value="${url}" />
<property name="username" value="restUser" />
<property name="password" value="restmy5ql" />
</bean>
And to wire, simply:
#Autowired
SessionFactory sessionFactory;
The right place to bootstrap the context is not in the constructor of your DAO; if you're working with a web application, you can go with the traditional approach:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/spring/dispatcher-config.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
Since this is not a web application, then the context cannot be bootstrapped in web.xml; however, the bootstrapping still needs to be external - a main class would simply need to create the XmlWebApplicationContext and configure it.
Hope this helps.

The fact that you are creating a new application context in each DAO object may be getting you into trouble.
ctx = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("META-INF/applicationContext-dao.xml");
This is kind of circular if you think about it. You call the context, which does a component scan for DAO's, then the DAO instantiates a new context, which does a component scan for DAO's ...
I would just autowire the sessionfactory directly as someone else had mentioned.
#Repository("AreaOfPreferenceDAO")
public class HibernateAreaOfPreferenceDAO extends GenericDaoHibernate2<AreaOfPreference, AreaOfPreferenceCompositeId> implements AreaOfPreferenceDAO {
#Autowired
public HibernateAreaOfPreferenceDAO(SessionFactory sessionFactory)
{
super(sessionFactory, AreaOfPreference.class);
}
}
No component should need to construct a new application context.

Had the same problem, unable to make injection work.
My problem was "sequence". Hibernate xml must be invoked first.
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: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/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.1.xsd">
<!-- init hibernate first -->
<import resource="classpath:HibernateContext.xml"/>
<bean id="viewResolver"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/pages/" />
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
</bean>
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<context:component-scan base-package="com.xxx.yyy" />
content of hibernateContext.xml:
<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"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.2.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.2.xsd">
<bean id="propertyConfigurer"
class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
<property name="locations">
<list>
<value>classpath:database.properties</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="dataSource"
class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
<property name="driverClassName" value="${jdbc.driver}" />
<property name="url" value="${jdbc.url}" />
<property name="username" value="${jdbc.user}" />
<property name="password" value="${jdbc.password}" />
</bean>
<bean id="sessionFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<property name="packagesToScan" value="com.xxx.yyy.model" />
<property name="hibernateProperties">
<props>
<prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle10gDialect</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager"/>
<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory"/>
</bean>
<!-- bean id="transactionManager" class=" org.springframework.transaction.jta.JtaTransactionManager">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory"/>
</bean-->