Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.jboss.logging.Logger.debugf(Ljava/lang/String;I)V

Getting following exception while trying to build a hibernate Spring web application on tomcat.

Following is the Exception :

Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.jboss.logging.Logger.debugf(Ljava/lang/String;I)V

at org.hibernate.internal.NamedQueryRepository.checkNamedQueries(NamedQueryRepository.java:149)

at org.hibernate.internal.SessionFactoryImpl.checkNamedQueries(SessionFactoryImpl.java:764)

at org.hibernate.internal.SessionFactoryImpl.<init>(SessionFactoryImpl.java:495)

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:372)

at org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean.buildSessionFactory(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:454)

at org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:439)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1637)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1574)

... 21 more

Solution:

Checked for the dependency hierarchy in pom.xml

Added the exclusion to hibernate-entitymanager dependency:

<dependency>
             <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
             <artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
            <version>${hibernate.version}</version>
            <exclusions>           
                <exclusion>
                    <artifactId>jboss-logging</artifactId>
                    <groupId>org.jboss.logging</groupId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
         </dependency>


You might get following after adding exclusion :

Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jboss/logging/BasicLogger

at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:760)

at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)

at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClassInternal(WebappClassLoader.java:2944)

at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1208)

at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1688)

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

at org.hibernate.internal.CoreLogging.messageLogger(CoreLogging.java:28)

at org.hibernate.internal.CoreLogging.messageLogger(CoreLogging.java:24)

at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.<clinit>(Configuration.java:86)

at org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:343)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1637)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1574)

... 21 more

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jboss.logging.BasicLogger

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

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

... 34 more

ERROR: org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader - Context initialization failed

Try adding the following dependency in pom :

<dependency>
           <artifactId>jboss-logging</artifactId>
           <groupId>org.jboss.logging</groupId>            
           <version>3.2.0.Final</version>
</dependency>