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Javax Persistence Error : Unknown Entity com.samplewebentities.Customer

I'm trying to persist an entity using EntityManagerFactory defined in my bean. The function looks like this:
private BaseMasterEntity saveEntity(BaseMasterEntity entity){
EntityManagerFactory emf = (EntityManagerFactory)context.getBean("entityManagerFactory");
EntityManager sf = emf.createEntityManager();
sf.getTransaction().begin();
sf.persist(entity);
sf.getTransaction().commit();
sf.close();
return entity;
}
The problem here is when it persists it cannot find the entity. The entity has #Entity defined clearly with the javax.persistance annotation. This is how my context file looks btw:
<property name="driverClassName" value="oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver" />
<property name="url" value="*my jdbc setting*" />
<property name="username" value="hr" />
<property name="password" value="hr" />
</bean>
<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="dataSource" />
<property name="jpaVendorAdapter" ref="hibernateJpaVendorAdapter" />
<property name="packagesToScan"
value="classpath*:com.samplewebentities"></property>
<property name="jpaProperties">
<props>
<prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.OracleDialect</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">create</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="hibernateJpaVendorAdapter"
class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter" />
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" />
If it helps, the classpath*:com.samplewebentites is a different component (The application is a combination of many different components/projects: Using SCA here).

No need for classpath
..
<property name="packagesToScan"
value="com.samplewebentities"></property>
..

Failed to determine Hibernate PersistenceProvider

I am trying to configure LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean without persisten.xml file.
this is my dataSource - it works for Hibernate SessionFactory - so, it is ok.
<bean id="dataSource"
class="org.apache.commons.dbcp2.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close">
<property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>
<property name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/test"/>
<property name="username" value="root"/>
<property name="password" value="root"/>
</bean>
this is my LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean
<bean id="myEmf" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<property name="packagesToScan" value="application.models" />
<property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
<bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter" />
</property>
<property name="jpaProperties">
<props>
<prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">create-drop</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
An exception that i am getting:
...Could not instantiate bean class [org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to determine Hibernate PersistenceProvider
I read documentation, and i know that LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean has such property, and similar style of creating LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean works in Spring in Action 3 and here: http://softwarecave.org/2014/03/15/using-jpa-and-jta-with-spring/
Maybe You have an idea what i am doing wrong or at least what spring want tell me via this exception ?
Thanks in advance,
Cheers :)
P.S to be clear, Failed to determine Hibernate PersistenceProvider doesn't mean that spring expect persistence.xml - this should be error like: No persistence units parsed from {classpath*:META-INF/persistence.xml}
RESOLVED:
thanks JB Nizet - if You will have similar problem add:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
<version>4.3.6.Final</version>
</dependency>
to pom.xml

Below code works for me.
<bean id="entityManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean" p:dataSource-ref="dataSource">
<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>
With hibernate = 4.3.5.Final
spring=4.1.4.RELEASE

Configure hibernate in spring application

I have successfully configured hibernate and I can run transactions but only from the psvm of the DAO class. I want to configure it with my spring app using the same configuration file i.e. hibernate.cfg.xml.
How can I do this? Most tutorials I've read simply neglect the hibernate configuration file.

You can add this code to you xml file to configure hibernate.
<!-- Hibernate Related Configuration. -->
<bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close">
<property name="driverClassName" value="org.postgresql.Driver"/>
<property name="url" value="jdbc:postgresql://192.168.1.9:5432/dbname"/>
<property name="username" value="postgres"/>
<property name="password" value="pwd"/>
<property name="validationQuery" value="SELECT 1"/>
</bean>
<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
<property name="packagesToScan" value="com.domain"/>
<property name="hibernateProperties">
<props>
<prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.format_sql">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.generate_statistics">true</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
<!-- Transaction Manager -->
<bean id="txManager"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
</bean>
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="txManager" />

The hibernate.cfg.xml file is specified for the LocalEntityManagerFactoryBean, along with your DataSource
<bean id="entityManagerFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
<property name="persistenceXmlLocation" value="classpath*:META-INF/hibernate.cfg.xml" />
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
</bean>
Here you can find an example of a Spring XML configuration containing some Hibernate configuration

How to avoid too many connections on spring+hibernate?

I´ve my hibernate configuration inside my spring-context, but after a little time of use I´m getting the too many connections error. Here is my code:
Spring context:
<!-- Beans Declaration -->
<bean id="Usuarios" class="com.proximate.model.Usuarios"/>
<!-- Service Declaration -->
<bean id="UsuariosService" class="com.proximate.service.UsuariosService">
<property name="usuariosDAO" ref="UsuariosDAO" />
</bean>
<!-- DAO Declaration -->
<bean id="UsuariosDAO" class="com.proximate.dao.UsuariosDAO">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="SessionFactory" />
</bean>
<bean id="DataSource" class="com.mchange.v2.c3p0.ComboPooledDataSource" destroy-method="close">
<property name="driverClass" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" />
<property name="jdbcUrl" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/mydb" />
<property name="user" value="user" />
<property name="password" value="password" />
<property name="maxPoolSize" value="50" />
<property name="maxStatements" value="0" />
<property name="minPoolSize" value="5" />
</bean>
<!-- Session Factory Declaration -->
<bean id="SessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="DataSource" />
<property name="annotatedClasses">
<list>
<value>com.proximate.model.Usuarios</value>
</list>
</property>
<property name="hibernateProperties">
<props>
<prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.format_sql">true</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
<!-- Enable the configuration of transactional behavior based on annotations -->
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="txManager"/>
<context:annotation-config />
<!-- Transaction Manager is defined -->
<bean id="txManager" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="SessionFactory"/>
</bean>
and here is how I use my session factory inside my dao:
private SessionFactory sessionFactory;
private HibernateTemplate hibernateTemplate;
public SessionFactory getSessionFactory() {
return sessionFactory;
}
public void setSessionFactory(SessionFactory sessionFactory) {
this.hibernateTemplate = new HibernateTemplate(sessionFactory);
}
Query query = hibernateTemplate.getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession().createSQLQuery("SELECT ID FROM usuarios");
Integer cantidad = new Integer(((BigInteger) query.uniqueResult()).intValue());
Why is my code opening so many connections. I heard that using a HibernateUtil class to load a session after logging might be what I need, but how do you implement it when using spring??
Thanks in advance!!

I don't know much about hibernate itself, but i think closing the session might help.
That's how JPAs EntityManager works - you have to close it to close underlaying connection.

It looks like your hibernate query is global? I would guess the cause is probably because it is not contained in a method with a transactional annotation around it.

Getting save is not valid without active transaction error on using transaction annotation

I'm using spring + hibernate + jersey in my application. I want to use transactions so I used spring's #Transactional annotation in my service layer. This is my hibernate.cfg.xml:
<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory>
<property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/db</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.username">user</property>
</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>
I haven't used session_context here so spring can manage it. In my applicationCOntext.xml, I have defined transactionManager:
<bean id="dataSource" class="com.mchange.v2.c3p0.ComboPooledDataSource" destroy-method="close">
<property name="driverClass" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>
<property name="jdbcUrl" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/db"/>
<property name="user" value="username"/>
</bean>
<context:annotation-config/>
<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
<property name="configLocation">
<value>classpath:hibernate.cfg.xml</value>
</property>
<property name="packagesToScan">
<list>
<value>com.hibernate.pojos</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="hibernateTemplate" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTemplate">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory"/>
</bean>
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager"/>
<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
</bean>
All urls matching /api/v1/* map to a servlet named jersey and servlet class used is com.sun.jersey.spi.spring.container.servlet.SpringServlet to which I have passed com.services as package to scan. In this package I have a class:
#Path("/app")
#Component
public class testApi() {
#Autowired
private DAOImpl daoimpl;
#POST
#Path("/create")
#Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
#Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
#Transactional(rollbackFor = {Exception.class})
public Map<String,Object> testHello(user u) {
Map response = daoimpl.save(u);
return response;
}
}
The class daoimpl has the sessionFactory autowired and uses sessionFactory.getCurrentSession() method to get session. The method daoimpl.save(obj) just saves it in db. Since I have marked testHello as transactional, I expect a transaction to begin which is managed by spring and then control should go to daoimpl where the actual save happens. But I get save is not valid without active transaction. I have seen lot of posts where session_context is mentioned in hibernate config and because of that, spring is unable to handle transactions. But in my case, I have ensured that I dont provide any session_context. What am I missing? I even tried adding #transactional to DAO since in my sample app, Im just issuing one DB call for a service. But this didnt work either.

Well could be that you are specifying a session factory via hibernate.cfg.xml and then again in Spring which gets passed to the transaction manager.
Not sure to be honest however I have never used a hibenate.cfg.xml and then following works for me (with the transactional config added as you have specified). This also gives you the advantage of specifying your connection params as properties and allowing you to easily swap db configs via Spring Profiles or some other mechanism.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
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/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.1.xsd">
<bean id="sessionFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<property name="packagesToScan">
<list>
<value>uk.co.xyz.domain</value>
</list>
</property>
<property name="hibernateProperties">
<props>
<prop key="hibernate.show_sql">${hibernate.showsql}</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.format_sql">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.dialect">${hibernate.dialect}</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">${hibernate.ddlauto}</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.cache.use_second_level_cache">${hibernate.enablecache}</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.cache.provider_class">org.hibernate.cache.EhCacheProvider</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="transactionManager"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager">
<property name="sessionFactory">
<ref local="sessionFactory" />
</property>
</bean>
</beans>
See also here which actually suggests is shouldn't matter:
applicationContext.xml with datasource or hibernate.cfg.xml. Difference?