Cannot convert value of type [com.ibm.ejs.jms.JMSQueueConnectionFactoryHandle] to required type [javax.jms.ConnectionFactory]

Question

I have standard Spring JMS config

    <bean id="jmsTemplate" class="org.springframework.jms.core.JmsTemplate">
        <property name="connectionFactory" ref="connectionFactory" />
        <property name="defaultDestination" ref="jmsdestination" />
    </bean>
    <bean id="connectionFactory" class="org.springframework.jndi.JndiObjectFactoryBean">
        <property name="jndiName" value="jms/MQAuditQueueConnectionFactory" />
    </bean>
    <bean id="jmsDestinationResolver" class="org.springframework.jndi.JndiObjectFactoryBean">
        <property name="jndiName" value="jms/MQAuditQueue" />
    </bean>

And I think a standard MQ on WAS 8.5.5.2, when I start my web-app I get:

 Cannot convert value of type [com.ibm.ejs.jms.JMSQueueConnectionFactoryHandle] to required type [javax.jms.ConnectionFactory] for property 'connectionFactory'

I note from my server I have the following classes in the following jars

class  com/ibm/ejs/jms/JMSQueueConnectionFactoryHandle.class found in /opt/websphere/was8//plugins/com.ibm.ws.runtime.jar

and

com/ibm/mq/jms/MQQueueConnectionFactory.class found in /opt/websphere/was8//installedConnectors/wmq.jmsra.rar/com.ibm.mqjms.jar

How do I get the WAS MQ to use the 2nd jar?

Answer 1

After lots of trial and error I found the answer is to exclude the jms-api which comes with spring-jms, in your pom.xml.

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-jms</artifactId>
  <version>${spring.version}</version>
    <exclusions>
      <exclusion>
        <groupId>javax.jms</groupId>
        <artifactId>javax.jms-api</artifactId>
      </exclusion>
    </exclusions>
</dependency>