On deploying EJB application on Weblogic : 12.2.1 , I am facing the exception :
"weblogic.management.DeploymentException: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.persistence.spi.PersistenceUnitInfo.getValidationMode()Ljavax/persistence/ValidationMode"
I have the below configuration in persistence.xml to specify persistence provider
<persistence-unit name="entityManager">
<!-- Use Hibernate persistency -->
<provider>org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence</provider>
and below in weblogic-application.xml
<prefer-application-packages>
<package-name>antlr.*</package-name>
<package-name>javax.persistence.*</package-name>
Before this exception I was facing the exception "Error instantiating Persistence Provider class java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence" which got resolved from
and since then I am facing this exception
I have provided below jars in the WL_DOMAIN/lib :-
dom4j
Also have provided in the classpath in below files as follows in WL_DOMAIN ---setDomainEnv.cmd
set EXT_PRE_CLASSPATH=C:\Projects\GMPP-CBOSS\MFSS\MFSS\lib\hibernate\slf4j- api.jar;C:\Projects\GMPP-CBOSS\MFSS\MFSS\lib\hibernate\hibernate-jpa-api.jar
---TrivEnv.cmd
set CLASSPATH=C:\oracle\Middleware2\modules\javax.persistence_1.0.0.0_1-0- 2.jar;C:\oracle\Middleware2\modules\com.oracle.jpa2support_1.0.0.0_2- 1.jar;%CLASSPATH%
----commonEnv.cmd -----oracle_common/common/bin
set CLASSPATH=C:\oracle\Middleware2\modules\javax.persistence_1.0.0.0_1-0- 2.jar;C:\oracle\Middleware2\modules\com.oracle.jpa2support_1.0.0.0_2-1.jar;
Below is the stack trace of the exception:-
<28 May, 2018, 3:38:26,86 PM IST> <Warning> <Deployer> <WL-149078> <Stack
trace for message 149004
weblogic.management.DeploymentException: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:
javax.persistence.spi.PersistenceUnitInfo.getValidationMode()
Ljavax/persistence/ValidationMode;
at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment .throwAppException
(BaseDeployment.java:132)
at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment.prepare
(BaseDeployment.java:242)
at weblogic.application.internal.EarDeployment.prepare
(EarDeployment.java:66)
at weblogic.application.internal. DeploymentStateChecker.prepare
(DeploymentStateChecker.java:158)
at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.AppContainerInvoker.
prepare(AppContainerInvoker.java:65)
Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace
Caused By: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:
javax.persistence.spi.PersistenceUnitInfo.getValidationMode()
Ljavax/persistence/ValidationMode;
at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.configure
(Ejb3Configuration.java:625)
at org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence.createContainer
EntityManagerFactory (HibernatePersistence.java:73)
at weblogic.persistence.BasePersistenceUnitInfo.initializeEntity
ManagerFactory(BasePersistenceUnitInfo.java:614)
at weblogic.persistence.BasePersistenceUnitInfo.
init(BasePersistenceUnitInfo.java:202)
at weblogic.persistence.BaseJPAIntegrationProvider.
createPersistenceUnitInfo(BaseJPAIntegrationProvider.java:54)
Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace
>
It may be possible that javax.persistence_1.0.0.0_2-0-0.jar was added at the beginning and also at the end of server classpath (in DOMAIN_HOME/lib dir).
As a result of this, two versions of the same jar in the same server classpath cause inconsistencies.
SOLUTION Remove javax.persistence_1.0.0.0_2-0-0.jar from the DOMAIN_HOME/lib dir.