Tomcat but not Jetty: NoSuchMethodError: javax.persistence.JoinColumn.foreignKey()Ljavax/persistence/ForeignKey

Question

I have recently upgraded my Wicket 6 application from Spring 3 to Spring 4.

When I run the application locally on Jetty 7, it runs fine.

When I deploy it to Tomcat 7, I get the following error:

[2014-05-07 10:20:47,121] ERROR [org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader] Context initialization failed org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'sessionFactory' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.persistence.JoinColumn.foreignKey()Ljavax/persistence/ForeignKey;

Is this a Tomcat issue or should I just go ahead and try to solve the nested exception java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.persistence.JoinColumn.foreignKey()?

If the issue is indeed with the foreignKey, then why does the problem not occur on Jetty?

spring.version 4.0.4.RELEASE

hibernate.version 4.3.5.Final

dataSource: class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close"

Answer 1

nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.persistence.JoinColumn.foreignKey()Ljavax/persistence/ForeignKey

This exception occurs of there are conflicting version of javax.persistence.ForeignKey class. Check your classpath and if you are using maven check the dependencies.

Answer 2

For me, issue fixed after downgrading my project to java 6 and hibernate-entitymanager version to 3.6.9.FINAL