I’m migrating a legacy application with spring-orm-6.x with Hibernate 6.1.6.Final version.
While running the application, the at new HibernateTemplate(session), following error is being thrown:
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.hibernate.criterion.Criterion
at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:641)
at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:188)
at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:520)
… 158 more
When tried to find this class, this looks to be removed from hibernate 6.x versions. As soon I downgrade to hibernate 5.x version this works fine and HibernateTemplate object gets created but I need to migrate to Hibernate 6.1.x version as this is the compatible version with spring framework 6.0.
I tried looking into build path related issues and removed all older versions but still issue persists.
Correct solution was to remove HibernateTemplate usage and use Session API instead in legacy code.