java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.hibernate.engine.spi.SessionFactoryImplementor.getProperties()Ljava/util/Map

Question

Please help to resolve my problem, I am getting below error when I try to run my program on Apache Tomcat. I am using hibernate Core (5.2.9.Final) and Hibernate commons Annotations (5.0.1.Final) in struts2.

Logs information are below:

INFO: Server startup in 41821 ms
25240 [http-nio-8080-exec-7] INFO  org.hibernate.Version  - HHH000412: Hibernate Core {5.2.9.Final}
25247 [http-nio-8080-exec-7] INFO  org.hibernate.cfg.Environment  - HHH000206: hibernate.properties not found
25352 [http-nio-8080-exec-7] WARN  org.hibernate.orm.deprecation  - HHH90000012: Recognized obsolete hibernate namespace http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration. Use namespace http://www.hibernate.org/dtd/hibernate-configuration instead.  Support for obsolete DTD/XSD namespaces may be removed at any time.
Hibernate Annotation Configuration loaded
Hibernate Annotation serviceRegistry created
26171 [http-nio-8080-exec-7] INFO  org.hibernate.annotations.common.Version  - HCANN000001: Hibernate Commons Annotations {5.0.1.Final}
26964 [http-nio-8080-exec-7] WARN  org.hibernate.orm.connections.pooling  - HHH10001002: Using Hibernate built-in connection pool (not for production use!)
26988 [http-nio-8080-exec-7] INFO  org.hibernate.orm.connections.pooling  - HHH10001005: using driver [com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver] at URL [jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/scale_report?serverTimezone=UTC]
26989 [http-nio-8080-exec-7] INFO  org.hibernate.orm.connections.pooling  - HHH10001001: Connection properties: {user=root, password=****}
26989 [http-nio-8080-exec-7] INFO  org.hibernate.orm.connections.pooling  - HHH10001003: Autocommit mode: false
27023 [http-nio-8080-exec-7] INFO  org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.connections.internal.DriverManagerConnectionProviderImpl  - HHH000115: Hibernate connection pool size: 1 (min=1)
28642 [http-nio-8080-exec-7] INFO  org.hibernate.dialect.Dialect  - HHH000400: Using dialect: org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect
Initial SessionFactory creation failed.java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.hibernate.engine.spi.SessionFactoryImplementor.getProperties()Ljava/util/Map;

I use following jar files:

antlr-2.7.7<br>
classmate-1.3.0<br>
dom4j-1.6.1<br>
hibernate-commons-annotations-5.0.1.Final<br>
hibernate-core-5.2.9.Final<br>
hibernate-jpa-2.1-api-1.0.0.Final<br>
hibernate-entitymanager-4.2.21.Final<br>
jandex-2.0.3.Final<br>
javassist-3.20.0-GA<br>
jboss-logging-3.3.0.Final<br>
jboss-transaction-api_1.2_spec-1.0.1.Final<br>

com.azalea.ufl.barcode.1.0<br>
commons-collections-3.1<br>
commons-configuration-1.2<br>
commons-fileupload-1.2.1<br>
commons-lang-2.1<br>
commons-logging<br>
cvom<br>
CrystalCommon2<br>
CrystalReportsRuntime<br>
DatabaseConnectors<br>
derby<br>
ejb3-persistence<br>
freemarker-2.3.13<br>
icu4j<br>
jai_imageio<br>
JDBInterface<br>
jrcerom<br>
jstl-1.2<br>
jta-1.1<br>
keycodeDecoder<br>
log4j-1.2.15<br>
logging<br>
mssql-jdbc-7.0.0.jre8<br>
mysql-connector-java-8.0.15<br>
ognl-2.6.11<br>
pfjgraphics<br>
QueryBuilder<br>
sap.com~tc~sec~csi<br>
slf4j-api-1.5.8<br>
slf4j-log4j12-1.5.8<br>
struts2-convention-plugin-2.1.6<br>
struts2-core-2.1.6<br>
webreporting<br>
webreporting-jsf<br>
xmlbeans-2.3.0<br>
xpp3<br>
Xtreme<br>
xwork-2.1.2<br>

Answer 1

Exceptions like this will be thrown usually when there is a problem on the clean-build-deploy process, try manually delete previous compiled code, if in Apache tomcat, go to the folder with deployments and manually delete any past residuals.

EDIT: For future references the specific Exception:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.hibernate.engine.spi.SessionFactoryImplementor.getProperties()Ljava/util/Map

Is thrown by Hibernate when there's a conflict of libraries, (usually javax.persistence)

the approach suggested is to make sure that the libraries sub-dependencies (the dependencies used by these libraries) are not conflicted, the suggestion given is that itf it is possible to you, eliminate suspected libraries and check when the message reappears and then try to look for a compatible version.