title: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.hibernate.engine.transaction.spi.TransactionContext
body: <p>I am developing <code>Spring MVC Hibernate</code> Integration example. In this example I'm using <code>Spring 4.1.9.RELEASE</code> and <code>Hibernate 5.1.0.Final</code>. If I downgrade Hibernate version to <code>4.3.5.Final</code> then it works. Now inorder to use hibernate 5 what else configuration do I need to change. Please refer more details below.</p>
  
  <p>Please find below the exception I see</p>
  
  <pre><code>java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.hibernate.engine.transaction.spi.TransactionContext
      at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1333)
      at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1167)
      at org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager.isSameConnectionForEntireSession(HibernateTransactionManager.java:711)
      at org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager.doBegin(HibernateTransactionManager.java:445)
      at org.springframework.transaction.support.AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.getTransaction(AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.java:373)
      at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionAspectSupport.createTransactionIfNecessary(TransactionAspectSupport.java:463)
      at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionAspectSupport.invokeWithinTransaction(TransactionAspectSupport.java:276)
      at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionInterceptor.invoke(TransactionInterceptor.java:96)
      at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:179)
      at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:207)
      at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy26.listPersons(Unknown Source)
      at com.journaldev.spring.PersonController.listPersons(PersonController.java:29)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
      at org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.doInvoke(InvocableHandlerMethod.java:222)
      at org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.invokeForRequest(InvocableHandlerMethod.java:137)
      at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.ServletInvocableHandlerMethod.invokeAndHandle(ServletInvocableHandlerMethod.java:110)
      at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.invokeHandlerMethod(RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.java:775)
      at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.handleInternal(RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.java:705)
      at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.AbstractHandlerMethodAdapter.handle(AbstractHandlerMethodAdapter.java:85)
      at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:959)
      at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:893)
      at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:965)
      at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:856)
      at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:622)
      at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.service(FrameworkServlet.java:841)
      at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:291)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
      at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:239)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:212)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:106)
      at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:502)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:141)
      at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:79)
      at org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:616)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:88)
      at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:521)
      at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1096)
      at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:674)
      at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1500)
      at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(NioEndpoint.java:1456)
      at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
      at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
      at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
      at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The configuration which I used are:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!-- Hibernate 4 SessionFactory Bean definition --&gt;
      &lt;beans:bean id="hibernate4AnnotatedSessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean"&gt;
  
          &lt;!-- DataSource --&gt;
          &lt;beans:property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" /&gt;
  
          &lt;!-- Annotated Class --&gt;
          &lt;beans:property name="annotatedClasses"&gt;
              &lt;beans:list&gt;
                  &lt;beans:value&gt;com.journaldev.spring.model.Person&lt;/beans:value&gt;
              &lt;/beans:list&gt;
          &lt;/beans:property&gt;
  
          &lt;!-- Hibernate Properties --&gt;
          &lt;beans:property name="hibernateProperties"&gt;
              &lt;beans:props&gt;
                  &lt;beans:prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto"&gt;${hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto}&lt;/beans:prop&gt;
                  &lt;beans:prop key="hibernate.dialect"&gt;${hibernate.dialect}&lt;/beans:prop&gt;
                  &lt;beans:prop key="hibernate.show_sql"&gt;${hibernate.show_sql}&lt;/beans:prop&gt;
              &lt;/beans:props&gt;
          &lt;/beans:property&gt;
      &lt;/beans:bean&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And other configurations are:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;beans:bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager"&gt;
          &lt;beans:property name="sessionFactory" ref="hibernate4AnnotatedSessionFactory" /&gt;
      &lt;/beans:bean&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It looks to me that this package <code>org.springframework.orm.</code> don't have configurations for the <code>hibernate 5</code> yet, please guide what configurations I need to change in order to use <code>hibernate 5</code>?</p>
  
  <p>pom.xml</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;properties&gt;
          &lt;java.version&gt;1.7&lt;/java.version&gt;
          &lt;org.springframework-version&gt;4.1.9.RELEASE&lt;/org.springframework-version&gt;
          &lt;org.aspectj-version&gt;1.7.4&lt;/org.aspectj-version&gt;
          &lt;org.slf4j-version&gt;1.7.5&lt;/org.slf4j-version&gt;
          &lt;hibernate.version&gt;5.1.0.Final&lt;/hibernate.version&gt;
      &lt;/properties&gt;
  
  
      &lt;dependencies&gt;
          &lt;!-- Spring --&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-context&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;${org.springframework-version}&lt;/version&gt;
              &lt;exclusions&gt;
                  &lt;!-- Exclude Commons Logging in favor of SLF4j --&gt;
                  &lt;exclusion&gt;
                      &lt;groupId&gt;commons-logging&lt;/groupId&gt;
                      &lt;artifactId&gt;commons-logging&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                  &lt;/exclusion&gt;
              &lt;/exclusions&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-webmvc&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;${org.springframework-version}&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-tx&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;${org.springframework-version}&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
          &lt;!-- Hibernate Entity Manager--&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.hibernate&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;hibernate-entitymanager&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;${hibernate.version}&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
          &lt;!-- Apache Commons DBCP --&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;commons-dbcp&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;commons-dbcp&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;1.4&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
          &lt;!-- Spring ORM --&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-orm&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;${org.springframework-version}&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
          &lt;!-- AspectJ --&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.aspectj&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;aspectjrt&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;${org.aspectj-version}&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
          &lt;!-- Logging --&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.slf4j&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;slf4j-api&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;${org.slf4j-version}&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.slf4j&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;jcl-over-slf4j&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;${org.slf4j-version}&lt;/version&gt;
              &lt;scope&gt;runtime&lt;/scope&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.slf4j&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;slf4j-log4j12&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;${org.slf4j-version}&lt;/version&gt;
              &lt;scope&gt;runtime&lt;/scope&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
          &lt;!-- LOG4J --&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;log4j&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;log4j&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;1.2.17&lt;/version&gt;
              &lt;exclusions&gt;
                  &lt;exclusion&gt;
                      &lt;groupId&gt;javax.mail&lt;/groupId&gt;
                      &lt;artifactId&gt;mail&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                  &lt;/exclusion&gt;
                  &lt;exclusion&gt;
                      &lt;groupId&gt;javax.jms&lt;/groupId&gt;
                      &lt;artifactId&gt;jms&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                  &lt;/exclusion&gt;
                  &lt;exclusion&gt;
                      &lt;groupId&gt;com.sun.jdmk&lt;/groupId&gt;
                      &lt;artifactId&gt;jmxtools&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                  &lt;/exclusion&gt;
                  &lt;exclusion&gt;
                      &lt;groupId&gt;com.sun.jmx&lt;/groupId&gt;
                      &lt;artifactId&gt;jmxri&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                  &lt;/exclusion&gt;
              &lt;/exclusions&gt;
              &lt;scope&gt;runtime&lt;/scope&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
          &lt;!-- @Inject --&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;javax.inject&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;javax.inject&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;1&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
          &lt;!-- Servlet API --&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;javax.servlet&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;servlet-api&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;2.5&lt;/version&gt;
              &lt;scope&gt;provided&lt;/scope&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
          &lt;!-- JSP API --&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;javax.servlet.jsp&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;jsp-api&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;2.1&lt;/version&gt;
              &lt;scope&gt;provided&lt;/scope&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
          &lt;!-- JSTL --&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;javax.servlet&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;jstl&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;1.2&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
          &lt;!-- Junit Test --&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;junit&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;junit&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;4.12&lt;/version&gt;
              &lt;scope&gt;test&lt;/scope&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;mysql&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;mysql-connector-java&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;5.1.37&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
      &lt;/dependencies&gt;
  </code></pre>