I'm trying to use JPA EntityManagerFactory bootstrapping without persistence.xml, which is new in Spring 3.1 (since M2), but it appears that spring is still searching for a persistence.xml
file, despite the fact that packagesToScan
is specified.
In context.xml, the entityManagerFactory is configured thusly:
<bean id="my-persistence-unit"
class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
<property name="persistenceProviderClass"
value="org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence"/>
<property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
<bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter"/>
</property>
<property name="jpaProperties">
<props>
<prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect</prop>
</props>
</property>
<property name="packagesToScan">
<list>
<value>my.package.name</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
But on application startup, a PersistenceException
with message "Unable to resolve persistence unit root URL" occurs:
...
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'my-persistence-unit' defined in class path resource [META-INF/context.xml]:
...
Caused by: javax.persistence.PersistenceException: Unable to resolve persistence unit root URL
at org.springframework.orm.jpa.persistenceunit.DefaultPersistenceUnitManager.determineDefaultPersistenceUnitRootUrl(DefaultPersistenceUnitManager.java:429)
at org.springframework.orm.jpa.persistenceunit.DefaultPersistenceUnitManager.preparePersistenceUnitInfos(DefaultPersistenceUnitManager.java:327)
at org.springframework.orm.jpa.persistenceunit.DefaultPersistenceUnitManager.afterPropertiesSet(DefaultPersistenceUnitManager.java:309)
at org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean.createNativeEntityManagerFactory(LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean.java:209)
at org.springframework.orm.jpa.AbstractEntityManagerFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(AbstractEntityManagerFactoryBean.java:310)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1504)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1442)
... 34 more
Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [] cannot be resolved to URL because it does not exist
at org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource.getURL(ClassPathResource.java:179)
at org.springframework.orm.jpa.persistenceunit.DefaultPersistenceUnitManager.determineDefaultPersistenceUnitRootUrl(DefaultPersistenceUnitManager.java:426)
... 40 more
Before I added packagesToScan
, I had a minimal persistence.xml
, and set the persistenceXmlLocation
, like so:
<property name="persistenceXmlLocation"
value="classpath:META-INF/persistence.xml"/>
which worked fine. So what am I doing incorrectly now?
edit added jpaVendorAdapter
, error remains.
edit removed persistenceUnitName per a deleted comment; renamed beans to the persistence unit name (for @PersistenceContext
)
update this error seems to depend upon which kind of application context loader is used. The code works in a spring/junit test via @ContextConfiguration
, but not via ClassPathXmlApplicationContext
Best Answer
It's a bug in Spring, I reported it.
Note that it happens only for a packaged application, when all classpath items are jars. That's why it doesn't fail in unit tests.