Hibernate error in Spring boot 1.5.8 initialized JPA application
Introduction
I use spring boot to initialize a web application with JPA, however, it doesn’t allow me to start the application. It shows the hibernate error. It is supposed the spring-boot-starter-data-jpa will install related dependencies but it seems not:
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.hibernate.HibernateException
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381) ~[na:1.8.0_144]
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424) ~[na:1.8.0_144]
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:335) ~[na:1.8.0_144]
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357) ~[na:1.8.0_144]
... 60 common frames omitted
Solution
Don’t need to add the hibernate dependency, just change the Spring Boot Version to latest version
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
<relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>