ERROR: org.hibernate.internal.SessionFactoryImpl - HHH000302: Unable to construct current session context [org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.SpringSessionContext]

Getting following exception while trying to start up a spring hibernate application :

ERROR: org.hibernate.internal.SessionFactoryImpl - HHH000302: Unable to construct current session context [org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.SpringSessionContext]

java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException

at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)

at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:422)

at org.hibernate.internal.SessionFactoryImpl.buildCurrentSessionContext(SessionFactoryImpl.java:1229)

at org.hibernate.internal.SessionFactoryImpl.<init>(SessionFactoryImpl.java:491)

at org.hibernate.boot.internal.SessionFactoryBuilderImpl.build(SessionFactoryBuilderImpl.java:444)

at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:708)

at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:724)

at org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBuilder.buildSessionFactory(LocalSessionFactoryBuilder.java:189)

at org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean.buildSessionFactory(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:350)

at org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:335)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1514)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1452)

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:294)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:225)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:291)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:193)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:567)

at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:913)

at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:464)

at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:385)

at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:284)

at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:111)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4973)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5467)

at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1559)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1549)

at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/hibernate/service/jta/platform/spi/JtaPlatform

at org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.SpringSessionContext.<init>(SpringSessionContext.java:56)

... 35 more

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.hibernate.service.jta.platform.spi.JtaPlatform

at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1718)

at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1569)

... 36 more

INFO : org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader - Root WebApplicationContext: initialization completed in 9698 ms