Yes, OpenJPA will save you a lot of headaches, since it is designed to work in 
an OSGi environment.  

On Jan 29, 2013, at 6:19 AM, Bram Pouwelse <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Gonzalo,
> 
> I've used Hibernate in Karaf in the past got it al working based on on
> Hibernate bundles created as described in this blog post:
> http://iocanel.blogspot.nl/2010/07/wicket-spring-3-jpa2-hibernate-osgi.html
> 
> I was able to update these bundles to Hibernate 3.6.2 but switched to
> OpenJPA after all.
> 
> Regards,
> Bram
> 
> 
> 
> 2013/1/29 Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]>:
>> Hi Gonzalo,
>> 
>> my comments inline:
>> 
>> 
>>> First.
>>>     Why do we have to repackage every library is not in the form of
>>> bundle?
>>>     It would be easier, more manageable, to wrap missing libraries (not
>>> in the form of a bundle) around a container that describes its contents.
>>> This way something like, say, apache.commons does not need to be
>>> unpacked and packed with a new manifiest. This method will break signing
>>> if any, but proposed one does not.
>> 
>> A lot of library (like commons) are already bundles.
>> The problem using wrap is that most of the time the OSGi statements are not
>> correct. That's why creating a bundle is required.
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Second.
>>>     This project (in this case OSGi-> Felix) is supposed to be created
>>> to resolve library mess. But I can only find references to peculiarities
>>> to the implementation of the class loaders that makes every old project
>>> incompatible without modifications. Say Hibernate. Do I have to use
>>> packages that only springsource Enterprise provides? This is a little
>>> pain because if the bundle is not there, is not anywhere.
>> 
>> Karaf is an OSGi container. Classloaders are handled in a different way in
>> OSGi.
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Third.
>>>     After fighting with dependencies for a long time. I repackaged
>>> hibernate, spring and friend into a new package. And found that nothing
>>> works together. I was smart enough to get spring 3.0.7-RELEASE that
>>> comes with karaf. But found following problem that I'm not able to
>>> solve:
>> 
>> Creating a "big" bundle mean that you create a single classloader. It works
>> but it's ugly IMHO.
>> Fragment can do the trick too.
>> 
>> I'm not sure to follow your issues with Hibernate and Spring.
>> 
>> Regards
>> JB
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> But the class org/hibernate/cfg/Configuration is packaged with the rest.
>>> And it must find it. Where is the problem?
>>> 
>>> I tried package different versions of hibernate that is the thing that I
>>> can touch. Because Spring is too much to repackage it. So I have to
>>> stick with the two versions included in the container, 3.0.7-RELEASE and
>>> 3.1 whatever.
>>> 
>>> Any help on how to make it work?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I read everywhere: Switch to openJPA it does bundles and works better
>>> with OSGi. But I just have much built on hibernate and don't want to
>>> switch. I want to learn how to make every project work. Don't want to
>>> have to do a switch to another project everytime I have some missing
>>> package (bundle) that makes the project not to work on osgi.
>>> 
>>> Thank you in advance.
>>> It will be a great project once this kind of problems are solved.  In
>>> effect cxf works great!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----------------------------------
>>> 
>>> Exception in thread "SpringOsgiExtenderThread-4"
>>> org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating
>>> bean with name 'crmSessionFactoryBean' defined in URL
>>> [bundle://196.0:0/META-INF/spring/hibernate-spring-beans.xml]:
>>> Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is
>>> org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not
>>> instantiate bean class
>>> [org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean]:
>>> Constructor threw exception; nested exception is
>>> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/hibernate/cfg/Configuration
>>>         at
>>> 
>>> org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.instantiateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:964)
>>>         at
>>> 
>>> org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBeanInstance(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:910)
>>>         at
>>> 
>>> org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:484)
>>>         at
>>> 
>>> org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:455)
>>>         at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory
>>> $1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:293)
>>>         at
>>> 
>>> org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222)
>>>         at
>>> 
>>> org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:290)
>>>         at
>>> 
>>> org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:192)
>>>         at
>>> 
>>> org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:567)
>>>         at
>>> 
>>> org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:895)
>>>         at
>>> 
>>> org.springframework.osgi.context.support.AbstractDelegatedExecutionApplicationContext.access$1600(AbstractDelegatedExecutionApplicationContext.java:69)
>>>         at
>>> 
>>> org.springframework.osgi.context.support.AbstractDelegatedExecutionApplicationContext$4.run(AbstractDelegatedExecutionApplicationContext.java:355)
>>>         at
>>> 
>>> org.springframework.osgi.util.internal.PrivilegedUtils.executeWithCustomTCCL(PrivilegedUtils.java:85)
>>>         at
>>> 
>>> org.springframework.osgi.context.support.AbstractDelegatedExecutionApplicationContext.completeRefresh(AbstractDelegatedExecutionApplicationContext.java:320)
>>>         at
>>> 
>>> org.springframework.osgi.extender.internal.dependencies.startup.DependencyWaiterApplicationContextExecutor$CompleteRefreshTask.run(DependencyWaiterApplicationContextExecutor.java:132)
>>>         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679)
>>> Caused by: org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could
>>> not instantiate bean class
>>> [org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean]:
>>> Constructor threw exception; nested exception is
>>> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/hibernate/cfg/Configuration
>>>         at
>>> org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:141)
>>>         at
>>> 
>>> org.springframework.beans.factory.support.SimpleInstantiationStrategy.instantiate(SimpleInstantiationStrategy.java:74)
>>>         at
>>> 
>>> org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.instantiateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:957)
>>>         ... 15 more
>>> Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
>>> org/hibernate/cfg/Configuration
>>>         at
>>> 
>>> org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean.<init>(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:189)
>>>         at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native
>>> Method)
>>>         at
>>> 
>>> sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
>>>         at
>>> 
>>> sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
>>>         at
>>> java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:532)
>>>         at
>>> org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:126)
>>>         ... 17 more
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Jean-Baptiste Onofré
>> [email protected]
>> http://blog.nanthrax.net
>> Talend - http://www.talend.com

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