URGENT HELP needed : org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationExce ption

[shashi5543]

following is the stack-trace:
SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class com.village.pampers.web.listener.InitListener
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationExce ption: Error creating bean with name 'sessionFactory' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/conf/spring/spring-hibernate.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Mapping directory location [ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/classes/com/village/pampers/core/magazine/dao/hibernate/mapping/]] does not denote a directory
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.Abstract AutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(Abstract AutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1412)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.Abstract AutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAu towireCapableBeanFactory.java:519)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.Abstract AutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAuto wireCapableBeanFactory.java:456)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.Abstract BeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:2 91)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultS ingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingleton BeanRegistry.java:222)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.Abstract BeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:288 )
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.Abstract BeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:190)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultL istableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(Defaul tListableBeanFactory.java:546)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplic ationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(Abstr actApplicationContext.java:872)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplic ationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.ja va:423)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.crea teWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:276)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.init WebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:197)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListe ner.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java: 47)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerS tart(StandardContext.java:4205)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(Sta ndardContext.java:4704)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInt ernal(ContainerBase.java:799)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(Co ntainerBase.java:779)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(Sta ndardHost.java:601)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescr iptor(HostConfig.java:675)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescr iptors(HostConfig.java:601)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps( HostConfig.java:502)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostC onfig.java:1315)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEv ent(HostConfig.java:324)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLife cycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:142)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(Conta inerBase.java:1061)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(Standa rdHost.java:840)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(Conta inerBase.java:1053)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(Stan dardEngine.java:463)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(Sta ndardService.java:525)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(Stan dardServer.java:754)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalin a.java:595)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Nativ e Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknow n Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Un known Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootst rap.java:289)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstr ap.java:414)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Mapping directory location [ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/classes/com/village/pampers/core/magazine/dao/hibernate/mapping/]] does not denote a directory
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFac toryBean.buildSessionFactory(LocalSessionFactoryBe an.java:707)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.AbstractSession FactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(AbstractSessionFact oryBean.java:211)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.Abstract AutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(Abstr actAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1469)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.Abstract AutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(Abstract AutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1409)
... 36 more

[Tolls]

Seems fairly c lear from the message:
[/WEB-INF/classes/com/village/pampers/core/magazine/dao/hibernate/mapping/
isn't a directory.

[shashi5543]

Seems fairly c lear from the message:
[/WEB-INF/classes/com/village/pampers/core/magazine/dao/hibernate/mapping/
isn't a directory.

Thx for replying Tolls, but why can't it be a directory.
here is my spring-hibernate.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx" xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schem...-beans-2.0.xsd
Index of /schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schem...ng-aop-2.0.xsd
Index of /schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schem...ing-tx-2.0.xsd
Index of /schema/jee http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee-2.0.xsd">

<jee:jndi-lookup id="dataSource" jndi-name="java:comp/env/jdbc/Pamp25weDevDataSource"/>
<bean id="sessionFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSes sionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource">
<ref local="dataSource" />
</property>
<property name="mappingDirectoryLocations">
<list>
<value>WEB-INF/classes/com/village/pampers/core/contentengine/dao/hibernate/mapping/</value>
<value>WEB-INF/classes/com/village/pampers/core/user/dao/hibernate/mapping/</value>
<value>WEB-INF/classes/com/village/pampers/core/locale/dao/hibernate/mapping/</value>
<value>WEB-INF/classes/com/village/pampers/core/urlmapper/dao/hibernate/mapping/</value>
<value>WEB-INF/classes/com/village/pampers/core/tools/babynamer/dao/hibernate/mapping/</value>
<value>WEB-INF/classes/com/village/pampers/core/tools/widget/dao/hibernate/mapping/</value>
<value>WEB-INF/classes/com/village/pampers/core/jforum/dao/hibernate/mapping/</value>
<value>WEB-INF/classes/com/village/liveworld/dao/hibernate/mapping/</value>
<value>WEB-INF/classes/com/village/pampers/core/braun/dao/hibernate/mapping/</value>
<value>WEB-INF/classes/com/village/pampers/core/m3pp/dao/hibernate/mapping/</value>
<value>WEB-INF/classes/com/village/pampers/core/daycare/dao/hibernate/mapping/</value>
<value>WEB-INF/classes/com/village/pampers/core/gtg/dao/hibernate/mapping/</value>
<value>WEB-INF/classes/com/village/pampers/core/feedback/dao/hibernate/mapping/</value>
<value>WEB-INF/classes/com/village/pampers/core/tools/rtmMailUpdate/dao/hibernate/mapping/</value>
<value>WEB-INF/classes/com/village/pampers/core/magazine/dao/hibernate/mapping/</value>
</list>
</property>
<property name="hibernateProperties">
<props>
<prop key="hibernate.cache.use_second_level_cache">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.cache.use_query_cache">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.cache.region.factory_class">net.sf. ehcache.hibernate.EhCacheRegionFactory</prop>
<prop key="net.sf.ehcache.configurationResourceName">/ehcache.xml</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.Orac le10gDialect</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.default_batch_fetch_size">50</prop>
<!-- PLeaase keep it commented on Production server -->
<prop key="hibernate.show_sql">false</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.format_sql">false</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="transactionManager"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.Hibernat eTransactionManager">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
</bean>
<!-- Transaction Advice -->
<tx:advice id="txAdvice">
<tx:attributes>
<tx:method name="*" />
</tx:attributes>
</tx:advice>
</beans>

suggest me the changes if any.

[Tolls]

Does that directory exist?
If not then the error is self explanatory.
You have told Spring that there is a directory at that location which may or may not contain spring mapping files, except there isn't a directory there.

[shashi5543]

Yes the directory exists at this path :build\classes\com\village\pampers\core\contenteng ine\dao\hibernate\mapping i changed the property value to this path and in the mapping folder lots of hbm files are present but the error is still the same.
SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class com.village.pampers.web.listener.InitListener
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationExce ption: Error creating bean with name 'sessionFactory' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/conf/spring/spring-hibernate.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Mapping directory location [ServletContext resource [/build/classes/com/village/pampers/core/magazine/dao/hibernate/mapping/]] does not denote a directory
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.Abstract AutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(Abstract AutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1412)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.Abstract AutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAu towireCapableBeanFactory.java:519)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.Abstract AutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAuto wireCapableBeanFactory.java:456)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.Abstract BeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:2 91)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultS ingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingleton BeanRegistry.java:222)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.Abstract BeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:288 )
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.Abstract BeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:190)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultL istableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(Defaul tListableBeanFactory.java:546)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplic ationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(Abstr actApplicationContext.java:872)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplic ationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.ja va:423)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.crea teWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:276)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.init WebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:197)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListe ner.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java: 47)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerS tart(StandardContext.java:4205)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(Sta ndardContext.java:4704)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInt ernal(ContainerBase.java:799)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(Co ntainerBase.java:779)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(Sta ndardHost.java:601)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescr iptor(HostConfig.java:675)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescr iptors(HostConfig.java:601)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps( HostConfig.java:502)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostC onfig.java:1315)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEv ent(HostConfig.java:324)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLife cycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:142)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(Conta inerBase.java:1061)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(Standa rdHost.java:840)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(Conta inerBase.java:1053)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(Stan dardEngine.java:463)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(Sta ndardService.java:525)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(Stan dardServer.java:754)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalin a.java:595)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Nativ e Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknow n Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Un known Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootst rap.java:289)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstr ap.java:414)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Mapping directory location [ServletContext resource [/build/classes/com/village/pampers/core/magazine/dao/hibernate/mapping/]] does not denote a directory
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFac toryBean.buildSessionFactory(LocalSessionFactoryBe an.java:707)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.AbstractSession FactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(AbstractSessionFact oryBean.java:211)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.Abstract AutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(Abstr actAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1469)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.Abstract AutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(Abstract AutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1409)
... 36 more

[Tolls]

Which is wrong.
You are running this up on a server, which usually does not have a build directory.
If you (as in you, not Spring) are looking for the directory in your project rather than where it is deployed on the server then you'll never get this right.

[shashi5543]

i created the directories in web-inf as required by spring-hibernate.hbm ............but same error :(

[Tolls]

So, show us here the directory structure in the webapp directory on the server then, and the current Spring/hinbernat config, because they don't have a habit of lying.

[shashi5543]

webapps/pamp25we-dev/WEB-INF/classes/com/village/pampers/core/magazine/dao/hibernate/mapping

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx" xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schem...-beans-2.0.xsd
Index of /schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schem...ng-aop-2.0.xsd
Index of /schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schem...ing-tx-2.0.xsd
Index of /schema/jee http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee-2.0.xsd">

<jee:jndi-lookup id="dataSource" jndi-name="java:comp/env/jdbc/Pamp25weDevDataSource"/>
<bean id="sessionFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSes sionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource">
<ref local="dataSource" />
</property>
<property name="mappingDirectoryLocations">
<list>
<value>WEB-INF/classes/com/village/pampers/core/contentengine/dao/hibernate/mapping/</value>
<value>WEB-INF/classes/com/village/pampers/core/user/dao/hibernate/mapping/</value>
<value>WEB-INF/classes/com/village/pampers/core/locale/dao/hibernate/mapping/</value>
<value>WEB-INF/classes/com/village/pampers/core/urlmapper/dao/hibernate/mapping/</value>
<value>WEB-INF/classes/com/village/pampers/core/tools/babynamer/dao/hibernate/mapping/</value>
<value>WEB-INF/classes/com/village/pampers/core/tools/widget/dao/hibernate/mapping/</value>
<value>WEB-INF/classes/com/village/pampers/core/jforum/dao/hibernate/mapping/</value>
<value>WEB-INF/classes/com/village/liveworld/dao/hibernate/mapping/</value>
<value>WEB-INF/classes/com/village/pampers/core/braun/dao/hibernate/mapping/</value>
<value>WEB-INF/classes/com/village/pampers/core/m3pp/dao/hibernate/mapping/</value>
<value>WEB-INF/classes/com/village/pampers/core/daycare/dao/hibernate/mapping/</value>
<value>WEB-INF/classes/com/village/pampers/core/gtg/dao/hibernate/mapping/</value>
<value>WEB-INF/classes/com/village/pampers/core/feedback/dao/hibernate/mapping/</value>
<value>WEB-INF/classes/com/village/pampers/core/tools/rtmMailUpdate/dao/hibernate/mapping/</value>
<value>WEB-INF/classes/com/village/pampers/core/magazine/dao/hibernate/mapping/</value>
</list>
</property>
<property name="hibernateProperties">
<props>
<prop key="hibernate.cache.use_second_level_cache">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.cache.use_query_cache">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.cache.region.factory_class">net.sf. ehcache.hibernate.EhCacheRegionFactory</prop>
<prop key="net.sf.ehcache.configurationResourceName">/ehcache.xml</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.Orac le10gDialect</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.default_batch_fetch_size">50</prop>
<!-- PLeaase keep it commented on Production server -->
<prop key="hibernate.show_sql">false</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.format_sql">false</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="transactionManager"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.Hibernat eTransactionManager">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
</bean>
<!-- Transaction Advice -->
<tx:advice id="txAdvice">
<tx:attributes>
<tx:method name="*" />
</tx:attributes>
</tx:advice>
</beans>

[Tolls]

And you're getting the same excewption:
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Mapping directory location [ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/classes/com/village/pampers/core/magazine/dao/hibernate/mapping/]] does not denote a directory
?
I'd have to dig out the documentation for it then (which I can't seem to find).
It's possible you're doing something wrong, or there's a bug in the version of Spring you're using.

Sorry I can't be more help than that.

[shashi5543]

there are other directories also on the server as per the mapping in spring.hibernate.xml why aren't they causing any exception.................

[Tolls]

Who knows.
If it was me I'd dig up the relevant source code and see exactly what event causes this sort of exception.
It's possible it's picked that entry simply because it's the last in the list.