Caused by: org.dom4j.DocumentException: org.dom4j.DocumentFactory cannot be cast to org.dom4j.DocumentFactory

Question

I've a gradle project which uses hibernate > 4 . If I run my war file in Apache tomcat, I don't get any error. But when I'm deploying it in Wildfly 8.2 , I get the following exception

Caused by: org.hibernate.InvalidMappingException: Error while parsing file: /G:/wildfly-8.2.0.Final/bin/content/mywar-1.0.war/WEB-INF/classes/com/mysite/
hbm/Role.hbm.xml
        at org.hibernate.jpa.boot.internal.EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.buildHibernateConfiguration(EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.java:1182) [hibernate-ent
itymanager-4.3.7.Final.jar:4.3.7.Final]
        at org.hibernate.jpa.boot.internal.EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl$4.perform(EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.java:848) [hibernate-entitymanager-4.3.7.Fi
nal.jar:4.3.7.Final]
        at org.hibernate.jpa.boot.internal.EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl$4.perform(EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.java:845) [hibernate-entitymanager-4.3.7.Fi
nal.jar:4.3.7.Final]
        at org.hibernate.boot.registry.classloading.internal.ClassLoaderServiceImpl.withTccl(ClassLoaderServiceImpl.java:398) [hibernate-core-4.3.7.Final.jar:4.
3.7.Final]
        at org.hibernate.jpa.boot.internal.EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.build(EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.java:844) [hibernate-entitymanager-4.3.7.Final.
jar:4.3.7.Final]
        at org.jboss.as.jpa.hibernate4.TwoPhaseBootstrapImpl.build(TwoPhaseBootstrapImpl.java:44) [jipijapa-hibernate4-3-1.0.1.Final.jar:]
        at org.jboss.as.jpa.service.PersistenceUnitServiceImpl$1$1.run(PersistenceUnitServiceImpl.java:154) [wildfly-jpa-8.2.0.Final.jar:8.2.0.Final]
        ... 8 more
Caused by: org.hibernate.InvalidMappingException: Unable to read XML
        at org.hibernate.internal.util.xml.MappingReader.legacyReadMappingDocument(MappingReader.java:375) [hibernate-core-4.3.7.Final.jar:4.3.7.Final]
        at org.hibernate.internal.util.xml.MappingReader.readMappingDocument(MappingReader.java:304) [hibernate-core-4.3.7.Final.jar:4.3.7.Final]
        at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.add(Configuration.java:518) [hibernate-core-4.3.7.Final.jar:4.3.7.Final]
        at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.add(Configuration.java:514) [hibernate-core-4.3.7.Final.jar:4.3.7.Final]
        at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.add(Configuration.java:688) [hibernate-core-4.3.7.Final.jar:4.3.7.Final]
        at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.addInputStream(Configuration.java:726) [hibernate-core-4.3.7.Final.jar:4.3.7.Final]
        at org.hibernate.jpa.boot.internal.EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.buildHibernateConfiguration(EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.java:1177) [hibernate-ent
itymanager-4.3.7.Final.jar:4.3.7.Final]
        ... 14 more
Caused by: org.dom4j.DocumentException: org.dom4j.DocumentFactory cannot be cast to org.dom4j.DocumentFactory Nested exception: org.dom4j.DocumentFactory cannot
 be cast to org.dom4j.DocumentFactory
        at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:484) [dom4j-1.6.1.jar:1.6.1]

I just added a exclude in my Gradle file like

runtime.exclude group: "dom4j" 

Now when I run gradle build, dom4j.jar is not created in the war file. Now I can run my deploy and run my project successfully on Wildfly 8.2 without any error. But the real problem starts here.

One of the feature in my project is that, it'll copy a file.xlsm to anotherfile.xlsm where I'm using jars like Apache Poi for those purposes. Here, Apache Poi is trying to access a method in dom4j.jar during file processing, it results in the following error

18:40:13,261 ERROR [io.undertow.request] (default task-29) UT005023: Exception handling request to /app/parentPath/myAction: org.springframework.web.util.NestedSe
rvletException: Handler processing failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/dom4j/DocumentException
        at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.triggerAfterCompletionWithError(DispatcherServlet.java:1287) [spring-webmvc-4.1.4.RELEASE.jar:4.1.4
.RELEASE]

Any ideas how I can permanently use dom4j.jar inside my classpath? I've searched for many question and most of them suggested to remove dom4j from classpath. I do successfully run my program by removing it from classpath but it results in the above error during excel file processing. Wasted more than a day on this..!! IS it possible to include dom4j.jar in my classpath?

Update:

I've done a little trick in MANIFEST.MF file. I've opened mywar.war > META-INF > MANIFEST.MF

and added Dependencies: org.dom4j export at the end of the file and saved it. So if I deploy my war file, I'm successfully running it without any error.

Can someone explain where I've to add this kind of property in my src/ file so that it will be automatcially added to MANIFEST.MF after gradle build..

Answer 1

This exception on wildfly usually occurs when you include a hibernate lib in your war that's different from the wildfly one, since you are deploying to wildfly it already include hibernate so you can set you live as provided in gradle aka compileProvided and deploy without exporting the dependence. If you still got the same error try declaring the hibernate dependency on manifest but keep the lib as provided it should work fine.

Answer 2

I had this same problem and i know how frustrating this one can be. I was able to resolve this problem. see my answer here. Hope this help