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Why Jandex and Classmate Libraries Used in Hibernate 4.2 Core

December 24, 2013 by Krishna Srinivasan Leave a Comment

Hibernate uses various third part dependencies internally to resolve the various problems. One of the dependency is Jandex (jandex-1.1.0.Final.jar) and Classmate (classmate-1.0.0) libraries which are not required for the hibernate’s core functionality. If you don’t add them to the libraries, you would get the below exceptions.

Jandex and Classmate are not required for the main Hibernate functionality. They are required for the metadata generation . In order to not break things for people that don’t use the metadata generation they added the dependencies as test dependencies. If you’re using the metadata generation you will need to obtain those dependencies.

Faster XML Classmate Maven Entry

[code lang=”xml”]
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml</groupId>
<artifactId>classmate</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
[/code]

Exception Trace

[code]
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/fasterxml/classmate/TypeResolver
at org.hibernate.metamodel.source.annotations.AnnotationBindingContextImpl.<init>(AnnotationBindingContextImpl.java:53)
at org.hibernate.metamodel.source.annotations.AnnotationMetadataSourceProcessorImpl.prepare(AnnotationMetadataSourceProcessorImpl.java:105)
at org.hibernate.metamodel.source.internal.MetadataImpl.prepare(MetadataImpl.java:175)
at org.hibernate.metamodel.source.internal.MetadataImpl.<init>(MetadataImpl.java:160)
at org.hibernate.metamodel.source.internal.MetadataBuilderImpl.build(MetadataBuilderImpl.java:123)
at org.hibernate.metamodel.MetadataSources.buildMetadata(MetadataSources.java:151)
at javabeat.net.hibernate.HibernateUtil.main(HibernateUtil.java:16)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.fasterxml.classmate.TypeResolver
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
[/code]

Jandex Maven Entry

[code lang=”xml”]
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.jboss</groupId>
<artifactId>jandex</artifactId>
<version>1.1.0</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
[/code]

Exception Trace

[code]
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jboss/jandex/Indexer
at org.hibernate.metamodel.source.annotations.AnnotationMetadataSourceProcessorImpl.prepare(AnnotationMetadataSourceProcessorImpl.java:78)
at org.hibernate.metamodel.source.internal.MetadataImpl.prepare(MetadataImpl.java:175)
at org.hibernate.metamodel.source.internal.MetadataImpl.<init>(MetadataImpl.java:160)
at org.hibernate.metamodel.source.internal.MetadataBuilderImpl.build(MetadataBuilderImpl.java:123)
at org.hibernate.metamodel.MetadataSources.buildMetadata(MetadataSources.java:151)
at javabeat.net.hibernate.HibernateUtil.main(HibernateUtil.java:16)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jboss.jandex.Indexer
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
[/code]

Filed Under: Hibernate Tagged With: Hibernate 4 Tutorials

About Krishna Srinivasan

He is Founder and Chief Editor of JavaBeat. He has more than 8+ years of experience on developing Web applications. He writes about Spring, DOJO, JSF, Hibernate and many other emerging technologies in this blog.

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