Hi, we have an application that is running under Tomcat. We are trying to upgrade to latest version 7.0.54 from 7.0.39. As 7.0.54 lead to some errors, we tried to find out which version broke the application. The result is that the issue appears with 7.0.52 and is not present until 7.0.50.
The exception that we can see is: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.dao.annotation.PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor#0' defined in file [xyz]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'entityManagerFactory' defined in file [xyz]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: Class org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.PersistenceProvider does not implement the requested interface javax.persistence.spi.PersistenceProvider at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:527) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:456) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:291) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:288) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:194) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.registerBeanPostProcessors(AbstractApplicationContext.java:710) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:410) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:276) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:197) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:47) at xyz(xyz1.java:41) at xyz (xyz2.java:94) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'entityManagerFactory' defined in file [xyz]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: Class org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.PersistenceProvider does not implement the requested interface javax.persistence.spi.PersistenceProvider at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1420) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:519) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:456) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:291) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:288) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:194) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.getBeansOfType(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:398) at org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactoryUtils.beansOfTypeIncludingAncestors(BeanFactoryUtils.java:275) at org.springframework.dao.support.PersistenceExceptionTranslationInterceptor.detectPersistenceExceptionTranslators(PersistenceExceptionTranslationInterceptor.java:139) at org.springframework.dao.support.PersistenceExceptionTranslationInterceptor.<init>(PersistenceExceptionTranslationInterceptor.java:79) at org.springframework.dao.annotation.PersistenceExceptionTranslationAdvisor.<init>(PersistenceExceptionTranslationAdvisor.java:70) at org.springframework.dao.annotation.PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor.setBeanFactory(PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor.java:99) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeAwareMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1439) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1408) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:519) ... 15 more Caused by: java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: Class org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.PersistenceProvider does not implement the requested interface javax.persistence.spi.PersistenceProvider at org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean.createNativeEntityManagerFactory(LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean.java:225) at org.springframework.orm.jpa.AbstractEntityManagerFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(AbstractEntityManagerFactoryBean.java:308) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1477) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1417) ... 30 more and the bean entityManagerFactory is defined like this: <bean id="entityManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean"> <property name="persistenceUnitName" value="xyz" /> <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" /> <property name="jpaDialect"> <bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.EclipseLinkJpaDialect"/> </property> <property name="jpaVendorAdapter" ref="jpaVendorAdapter"/> <property name="jpaProperties"> <props> <prop key="eclipselink.ddl-generation">none</prop> <prop key="eclipselink.ddl-generation.output-mode">database</prop> <prop key="eclipselink.create-ddl-jdbc-file-name">xyz.sql</prop> <prop key="eclipselink.application-location">c:\temp\</prop> <prop key="eclipselink.profiler">NoProfiler</prop> <prop key="eclipselink.logging.level">OFF</prop> <prop key="eclipselink.jdbc.batch-writing">JDBC</prop> <prop key="eclipselink.cache.shared.default">true</prop> <prop key="eclipselink.logging.logger">xyz</prop> <prop key="javax.persistence.query.timeout">300</prop> </props> </property> </bean> Any clue on this? Thanks, Xavier.