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Eclipselink Maven No Persistence provider for EntityManager named

I try to create a JPA Project with Maven in Intellij.
I use Eclipse Link and the Database is SQlite.
This is my current pom.xml File (only the Dependencies):
<dependency>
<groupId>org.xerial</groupId>
<artifactId>sqlite-jdbc</artifactId>
<version>3.8.11.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.eclipse.persistence</groupId>
<artifactId>org.eclipse.persistence.jpa</artifactId>
<version>2.6.3</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.eclipse.persistence</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.persistence</artifactId>
<version>2.1.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.eclipse.persistence</groupId>
<artifactId>eclipselink</artifactId>
<version>2.6.3</version>
</dependency>
My persistence.xml file looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence" version="2.1">
<persistence-unit name="NewPersistenceUnit">
<provider>org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.PersistenceProvider</provider>
<class>com.raeste.db.BuchungEntity</class>
<class>com.raeste.db.KategorieEntity</class>
<properties>
<property name="eclipselink.jdbc.url" value="jdbc:sqlite:/home/raeste/programmierung/haushaltsbuch.db"/>
<property name="eclipselink.jdbc.driver" value="org.sqlite.JDBC"/>
</properties>
</persistence-unit>
</persistence>
If i now try to create an EntityMangerFactory I get the following exception:
Exception in thread "main" javax.persistence.PersistenceException: No Persistence provider for EntityManager named NewPersistenceUnit
at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:85)
at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:54)
The Code to create the EntityManagerFactory is:
EntityManagerFactory emf = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("NewPersistenceUnit");
I know there are several questions with that problem but non of them helped.
The persistence.xml file is under the following path:
src/main/java/META-INF/

The persistence.xml file should be at src/main/resources/META-INF.
src/main/java is for Java source code.
src/main/resources is for resource files.
Try it.

I can not use aries jpa/v2.0.0 and transactions/v2.0.0

I tried enable and int blueprint.xml but I have error. It is my xml file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<blueprint xmlns="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0"
xmlns:jpa="http://aries.apache.org/xmlns/jpa/v2.0.0"
xmlns:tx="http://aries.apache.org/xmlns/transactions/v2.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0 https://osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0/blueprint.xsd
http://aries.apache.org/xmlns/jpa/v2.0.0
http://aries.apache.org/xmlns/transactions/v2.0.0 ">
<jpa:enable/>
<tx:enable-annotations/>
<service ref="userService" interface="domain.access.UserService"/>
<bean id="userService" class="domain.access.impl.UserServiceImpl" scope="singleton">
</bean>
</blueprint>
It is my dependencies in pom.xml I include all libs mabe I forgot somthing
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>sqljdbc41</groupId>
<artifactId>sqljdbc41</artifactId>
<version>4.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.servicemix.bundles</groupId>
<artifactId>org.apache.servicemix.bundles.commons-dbcp</artifactId>
<version>1.4_3</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId>
<artifactId>geronimo-jpa_2.0_spec</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId>
<artifactId>geronimo-validation_1.0_spec</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId>
<artifactId>geronimo-jta_1.1_spec</artifactId>
<version>1.1.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.openjpa</groupId>
<artifactId>openjpa</artifactId>
<version>2.4.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>kg.nurtelecom</groupId>
<artifactId>access-module-api</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>domain</groupId>
<artifactId>platform-common</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.transaction</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.transaction-api</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
and when I start bundle I have grace period and in log
2016-03-05 12:34:37,732 | INFO | l for user karaf | BlueprintContainerImpl | 15 - org.apache.aries.blueprint.core - 1.4.4 | Bundle kg.nurtelecom.access.module.impl/1.0.0 is waiting for name
space handlers [http://aries.apache.org/xmlns/jpa/v2.0.0, http://aries.apache.org/xmlns/transactions/v2.0.0]

In the transaction 2.0.0 namespace the xml element is named <tx:enable/> not <tx:enable-annotations/>. This is not related to the error you described though.
The error says that you do not have the correct Aries JPA bundle installed. Be sure you install all necessary features like in this example.
The dependencies in the pom cover only the build time. At runtime you have to provide the dependencies as karaf features or individual bundles.
Also make sure you use the newest Apache Karaf. Older versions did not include the aries transaction 2.0.0 bundle.

switching from Hibernate to JPA Interface that implements Hibernate

I'm not exactly sure how to phrase my question, but I have been working through a hibernate tutorial and everything has been smooth sailing until we switched from using the hibernate.cfg.xml to a resources/META-INF/persistance.xml. It seems that the program cannot create an EntityManagerFactory object, and is throwing an XsdException. After trying to research what that exception is, im not exactly sure what it means, or how to fix it. at this point just starting a session and closing the transaction would be a big step. what am i doing wrong? am i not putting the persistance.xml file in the right spot? any directional advice would be greatly appreciated...
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/hibernate/internal/util/xml/XsdException
at org.hibernate.jpa.HibernatePersistenceProvider.getEntityManagerFactoryBuilderOrNull(HibernatePersistenceProvider.java:80)
at org.hibernate.jpa.HibernatePersistenceProvider.getEntityManagerFactoryBuilderOrNull(HibernatePersistenceProvider.java:71)
at org.hibernate.jpa.HibernatePersistenceProvider.createEntityManagerFactory(HibernatePersistenceProvider.java:52)
at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:55)
at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:39)
at ApplicationJPA.main(ApplicationJPA.java:12)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:483)
at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:140)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.hibernate.internal.util.xml.XsdException
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:372)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:361)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:360)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
... 11 more
src/main/java/applicationJPA.java (driver)
import javax.persistence.EntityManager;
import javax.persistence.EntityManagerFactory;
import javax.persistence.EntityTransaction;
import javax.persistence.Persistence;
public class ApplicationJPA {
public static void main(String[] args) {
EntityManagerFactory emf = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("infinite-finances");
EntityManager em = emf.createEntityManager();
EntityTransaction tx = em.getTransaction();
tx.begin();
em.close();
emf.close();
}
}
src/main/recourses/META-INF/persistance.xml
<persistence 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" version="2.1">
<persistence-unit name="infinite-finances" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">
<provider>org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence</provider>
<properties>
<property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.user" value="user"/>
<property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.password" value="passwprd"/>
<property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/infinite_skills"/>
<property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.driver" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>
<!-- Create/update tables automatically using mapping metadata -->
<property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="update" />
<property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5Dialect"/>
<property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="true"/>
</properties>
</persistence-unit>
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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.infiniteSkills</groupId>
<artifactId>ifinance-hibernateTut</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
<version>4.3.6.Final</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
<version>5.0.0.CR2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-annotations</artifactId>
<version>3.5.6-Final</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
<version>1.7.7</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
<version>1.7.7</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<version>5.1.36</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>

Not sure but could be the hibernate-entitymanager dependency, switch to this one:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
<version>4.3.6.Final</version>
</dependency>

JPA, MySQL, Hibernate & Maven Skeleton

I've been trying to get a simple skeleton app to run (and commit to the DB) using JPA, MySQL, Hibernate & Maven, however I'm having problems.
Listed below are my 2 trivial classes, my pom.xml, and my META-INF/persistence.xml
I can build the project without any problem (mvn clean install), however running it (mvn exec:java -Dexec.mainClass=com.foo.HelloWorld -X) causes an exception, with the following StackTrace.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Stacktrace:
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: An exception occured while executing the Java class. null
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:719)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeStandaloneGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:569)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:539)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:387)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:348)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:180)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:328)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:138)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:362)
at org.apache.maven.cli.compat.CompatibleMain.main(CompatibleMain.java:60)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException: An exception occured while executing the Java class. null
at org.codehaus.mojo.exec.ExecJavaMojo.execute(ExecJavaMojo.java:346)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:490)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:694)
... 17 more
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.codehaus.mojo.exec.ExecJavaMojo$1.run(ExecJavaMojo.java:291)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.hibernate.event.PreInsertEvent.getSource()Lorg/hibernate/engine/SessionImplementor;
at org.hibernate.validator.event.ValidateEventListener.onPreInsert(ValidateEventListener.java:167)
at org.hibernate.action.EntityIdentityInsertAction.preInsert(EntityIdentityInsertAction.java:142)
at org.hibernate.action.EntityIdentityInsertAction.execute(EntityIdentityInsertAction.java:65)
at org.hibernate.engine.ActionQueue.execute(ActionQueue.java:279)
at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractSaveEventListener.performSaveOrReplicate(AbstractSaveEventListener.java:321)
at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractSaveEventListener.performSave(AbstractSaveEventListener.java:204)
at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractSaveEventListener.saveWithGeneratedId(AbstractSaveEventListener.java:130)
at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultPersistEventListener.entityIsTransient(DefaultPersistEventListener.java:154)
at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultPersistEventListener.onPersist(DefaultPersistEventListener.java:110)
at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultPersistEventListener.onPersist(DefaultPersistEventListener.java:61)
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.firePersist(SessionImpl.java:646)
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.persist(SessionImpl.java:620)
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.persist(SessionImpl.java:624)
at org.hibernate.ejb.AbstractEntityManagerImpl.persist(AbstractEntityManagerImpl.java:212)
at com.foo.HelloWorld.create(HelloWorld.java:32)
at com.foo.HelloWorld.main(HelloWorld.java:11)
... 6 more
I have the following two classes:
The Entity to store.
package com.foo;
import java.io.Serializable;
import javax.persistence.Basic;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.Id;
#Entity
public class Message {
#Id
#GeneratedValue
private int id;
#Basic
private String message;
public Message() {}
public Message(String message) {
this.message = message;
}
public String toString() {
return "Greeting id=" + id + ", message=" + message;
}
}
The Application:
package com.foo;
public class HelloWorld {
private javax.persistence.EntityManagerFactory emf;
private javax.persistence.EntityManager em;
private String PERSISTENCE_UNIT_NAME = "hello-world";
public static void main(String[] args) {
HelloWorld hello = new HelloWorld();
hello.initEntityManager();
hello.create();
// hello.read();
hello.closeEntityManager();
}
private void initEntityManager() {
emf = javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(PERSISTENCE_UNIT_NAME);
em = emf.createEntityManager();
}
private void closeEntityManager() {
em.close();
emf.close();
}
private void create() {
em.getTransaction().begin();
Message hello = new Message("hello world");
Message bye = new Message("goodbye, world");
Message[] messages = new Message[] {hello, bye};
for (Message m : messages) {
em.persist(m);
}
em.getTransaction().commit();
}
// private void read() {
// Message m = (Message)em.createQuery("select m from Message m").getSingleResult();
// System.out.println("Query returned: " + m);
// }
}
The following is my 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>com.treocht.hibernate.tutorial</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-tutorial</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>First Hibernate Tutorial</name>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
<version>3.3.2.GA</version>
<type>jar</type>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.persistence</groupId>
<artifactId>persistence-api</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<type>jar</type>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
<version>1.0.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>hsqldb</groupId>
<artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId>
<version>1.8.0.7</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate</artifactId>
<version>3.2.2.ga</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-annotations</artifactId>
<version>3.2.1.ga</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
<version>3.2.1.ga</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-tools</artifactId>
<version>3.2.0.beta9a</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>c3p0</groupId>
<artifactId>c3p0</artifactId>
<version>0.9.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
<version>1.6.1</version>
<type>jar</type>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<version>5.1.13</version>
<type>jar</type>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<!--
we dont want the version to be part of the generated war file name
-->
<finalName>${artifactId}</finalName>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<source>1.6</source>
<target>1.6</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
</build>
</project>
And I have this META-INF/persistence.xml file:
<persistence xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence persistence_1_0.xsd"
version="1.0">
<persistence-unit name="hello-world" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">
<provider>org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence</provider>
<class>com.foo.Message</class>
<properties>
<property name="hibernate.connection.url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/my_db" />
<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" />
<property name="hibernate.connection.password" value="password" />
<property name="hibernate.connection.username" value="username" />
<property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="update" />
</properties>
</persistence-unit>
</persistence>

You're indeed using incompatible versions of Hibernate artifacts as this can be verified using the official Hibernate Compatibility Matrix. Don't rely on some random tutorial found around the net for that.
But since you're using Maven, you actually don't need to declare all Hibernate artifacts, just leverage the transitive dependencies. So just declare a dependency in the hibernate-entitymanager (especially if you're not sure of what you're doing):
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
<version>3.4.0.GA</version><!-- for JPA 1.0 -->
</dependency>
And remove these hibernate, hibernate-core, hibernate-annotations, persistence-api, slf4j dependencies.
And if you want to change the version of the sfl4j-api artifact that you get transitively, you should do that in the dependency management section:
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
<version>1.6.1</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
Actually (and I'm sorry to say so) your whole pom is a big mess, try to spend some time cleaning it. Use mvn dependency:tree (or some visual fronted offered by your IDE) to do so.
And let me insist, don't rely on some random (and wrong) tutorial found around the net, leverage Maven transitive dependency mechanism.
PS: As of Hibernate 3.5, the various projects (Hibernate Annotation, Hibernate EntityManager) have been merged back to Hibernate Core and their versions are synchronized which simplifies a lot version management, even for Maven users.

There might be the conflicts in version.
compare it with this

This is now working, and my pom.xml looks like this:
<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>com.company.hibernate.tutorial</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-tutorial</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>Hibernate Tutorial</name>
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>JBoss repository</id>
<url>http://repository.jboss.com/maven2/</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
<dependencies>
<!-- Hibernate framework -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
<version>3.4.0.GA</version><!-- for JPA 1.0 -->
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<version>5.1.13</version>
<type>jar</type>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
<version>1.2.16</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-jdk14</artifactId>
<version>1.6.1</version>
<type>jar</type>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<source>1.6</source>
<target>1.6</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
</build>
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
<version>1.6.1</version>
<type>jar</type>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
</project>

org.springframework.beans.factory.CannotLoadBeanClassException: Cannot find class

I replaced j2ee.jar with servle-api.com from my tomcat 6.0 installation directory:
And that yields the error below. I'm presently trying to figure out the cause. What might the problem be.
I have a the bean defined in a configuration file: Sempedia-service.xml
as follows
<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-2.5.xsd">
<bean id="sempediaSearchService"
class="com.service.SempediaSearchManager" />
</beans>
my web.xml specifies the following beans:
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/Sempedia-service.xml,/WEB-INF/Sempedia-persistence.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
Stack Trace
SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
org.springframework.beans.factory.CannotLoadBeanClassException: Cannot find class [com.service.SempediaSearchManager] for bean with name 'sempediaSearchService' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/Sempedia-service.xml]; nested exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.service.SempediaSearchManager
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.resolveBeanClass(AbstractBeanFactory.java:1141)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.predictBeanType(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:524)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.isFactoryBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:1177)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.isFactoryBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:758)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:422)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:728)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:380)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:255)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:199)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:45)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3934)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4429)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:722)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:516)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:583)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:288)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.service.SempediaSearchManager
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1387)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1233)
at org.springframework.util.ClassUtils.forName(ClassUtils.java:211)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinition.resolveBeanClass(AbstractBeanDefinition.java:385)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.resolveBeanClass(AbstractBeanFactory.java:1138)
... 24 more

The problem is that there is no class called com.service.SempediaSearchManager on your webapp's classpath. The most likely root causes are:
the fully qualified classname is incorrect in /WEB-INF/Sempedia-service.xml; i.e. the class name is something else,
the class is not in your webapp's /WEB-INF/classes directory tree or a JAR file in the /WEB-INF/lib directory.
EDIT : The only other thing that I can think of is that the ClassDefNotFoundException may actually be a result of an earlier class loading / static initialization problem. Check your log files for the first stack trace, and look the nested exceptions, i.e. the "caused by" chain. [If a class load fails one time and you or Spring call Class.forName() again for some reason, then Java won't actually try to load a second time. Instead you will get a ClassDefNotFoundException stack trace that does not explain the real cause of the original failure.]
If you are still stumped, you should take Eclipse out of the picture. Create the WAR file in the form that you are eventually going to deploy it, then from the command line:
manually shutdown Tomcat
clean out your Tomcat webapp directory,
copy the WAR file into the webapp directory,
start Tomcat.
If that doesn't solve the problem directly, look at the deployed webapp directory on Tomcat to verify that the "missing" class is in the right place.

I got the same error and the cause was the directory:
U:.....WEB\WebRoot\WEB-INF\classes\com\yourcompany\cc\dao
was corrupted(directory or file not readable or damaged)..
solved with
renaming the directory WEB-INF\classes as WEB-INF\classes_old
Eclipse's Project menu--> Clean (to recreate directories)
redeploy --> restart server.

Check your dependencies.
<?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>SchoolApp</groupId>
<artifactId>SchoolApp</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<properties>
<hibernate.version>4.2.0.Final</hibernate.version>
<mysql.connector.version>5.1.21</mysql.connector.version>
<spring.version>3.2.2.RELEASE</spring.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<!-- DB related dependencies -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
<version>${hibernate.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
<version>${hibernate.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<version>${mysql.connector.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-dbcp</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-dbcp</artifactId>
<version>1.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javassist</groupId>
<artifactId>javassist</artifactId>
<version>3.12.1.GA</version>
</dependency>
<!-- SPRING -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-jdbc</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Spring Security -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-core</artifactId>
<version>3.1.3.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-web</artifactId>
<version>3.1.3.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-config</artifactId>
<version>3.1.3.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-taglibs</artifactId>
<version>3.1.3.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<!-- CGLIB is required to process #Configuration classes -->
<dependency>
<groupId>cglib</groupId>
<artifactId>cglib</artifactId>
<version>2.2.2</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Servlet API and JSTL -->
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>3.0.1</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>jstl</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Test -->
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.7</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-test-mvc</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0.M1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>spring-maven-milestone</id>
<name>Spring Maven Milestone Repository</name>
<url>http://maven.springframework.org/milestone</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
<build>
<finalName>spr-mvc-hib</finalName>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3.2</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.7</source>
<target>1.7</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>

I have faced similar problem
So
I just do
1.update Maven Project
2.install maven.

I have the same problem. I checked my /WEB-INF/classes based on Stephen's recommendation:
the class is not in your webapp's /WEB-INF/classes directory tree or a JAR file in the /WEB-INF/lib directory.
I discovered I have an outdated jar file. Replacing it with the latest jar file solved the issue.

i recently experienced this issue when i was trying to build and suddenly the laptop battery ran out of charge. I just removed all the servers from eclipse and then restore it. after doing that, i re-built the war file and it worked.

Just leaving this here for future visitors:
In my case the /WEB-INF/classes directory was missing. If you are using Eclipse, make sure the .settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component is correct (Deployment Assembly in the project settings).
In my case it was missing
<wb-resource deploy-path="/WEB-INF/classes" source-path="/src/main/resources"/>
<wb-resource deploy-path="/WEB-INF/classes" source-path="/src/test/resources"/>
This file is also a common source of errors as mentioned by Anuj (missing dependencies of other projects).
Otherwise, hopefully the other answers (or the "Problems" tab) will help you.

i dont know whether it is relevant to your issue, i got similar issue which i got solved by
1) In eclipse right click server and clean
if it still didnt work
2) export the project and delete the project create the project with same name and import the project and add the project to server and run.