JPA2.1 and Hibernate Validator 5.1.2 on Weblogic 12.1.3

Question

I am trying to configure my project to run JPA2.1 with Hibernate Validator 5.1.2 on Weblogic 12.1.3, but I'm running into issues when I try to deploy my project.

I configured weblogic to use JPA2.1 using the manual method as described on the tthis Documentation Page for Weblogic 12.1.3: http://docs.oracle.com/middleware/1213/wls/EJBAD/using_toplink.htm#EJBAD1508

I want to use hibernate-validator 5.1.2 in my project, which I configured this as such:

Maven dependency:

<dependency>
 <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
 <artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
 <version>5.1.2.Final</version>
</dependency>

weblogic.xml

<container-descriptor>
    <prefer-application-packages>
        <!-- hibernate validator 5.1.2 over HV 4.1 -->
        <package-name>javax.validation.*</package-name>
        <package-name>org.hibernate.validator.*</package-name>
        <!-- guava 13 -->
        <package-name>com.google.common.collect.*</package-name>
    </prefer-application-packages>
    <prefer-application-resources>
        <!-- hibernate validator 5.1.2 over HV 4.1 -->
        <resource-name>META-INF/validation-mapping-1.1.xsd</resource-name>
        <resource-name>META-INF/validation-configuration-1.1.xsd</resource-name>
    </prefer-application-resources>
</container-descriptor>

On deployment i get the following exception:

<Aug 1, 2014 10:46:16 AM CEST> <Error> <Deployer> <BEA-149265> <Failure occurred in the execution of deployment request with ID "8725280002070" for task "0". Error is: "weblogic.application.ModuleException: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.hibernate.validator.HibernateValidator"
weblogic.application.ModuleException: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.hibernate.validator.HibernateValidator
    at weblogic.application.internal.ExtensibleModuleWrapper.prepare(ExtensibleModuleWrapper.java:114)
    at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleListenerInvoker.prepare(ModuleListenerInvoker.java:100)
    at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$1.next(ModuleStateDriver.java:175)
    at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$1.next(ModuleStateDriver.java:170)
    at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver$ParallelChange.run(StateMachineDriver.java:80)
    Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace
Caused By: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.hibernate.validator.HibernateValidator
    at weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.findLocalClass(GenericClassLoader.java:357)
    at weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.findClass(GenericClassLoader.java:318)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
    at weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.loadClass(GenericClassLoader.java:186)
    Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace
> 

I did not get this exception when I had my project configured on Weblogic 12.1.2 with JPA2.0 and Hibernate Validator 4.3.1.

Does anyone have suggestions on how to fix this?

Answer 1

Oracle released "Interim Patch for Bug: 20087183" last week that fixes this issue.