I'm relatively new to Java & maven, and so to get to know my way around, I decided to do a project as a means for learning.
I picked a pretty common stack :
- Java 1.6
- Hibernate (with annotations)
- Spring (with annotations)
- JUnit 4
- Tomcat
- Oracle XE / In-mem hsqldb
By far one of the biggest problems I've experienced is getting the correct combination of jar versions to get a stable environment. It's an issue I'm still fighting with over two months later.
Quite often I get noSuchMethod or classNotFound exceptions thrown, and it turns out to be that Spring module A x.x.x is not compatible with Hibernate module B y.y.y. Or even, just as commonly, spring module A x.x.x is not compatible with spring module B y.y.y
I expected in starting from a clean slate, version dependencies should be minimal -- just grab the latest version and everything should work... but that has not been the case.
I expected that using maven would simplify this process, and no doubt it has.
But it's certainly be far from painless. I'd have thought that if module A requires a specific version of module B, that it be enforced somewhere along the line, and certinaly provide more meaningful messages that just "noSuchMethod".
Additionally, it seems that the only way I discover these problems is to try a new method call, get the dreaded noSuchMethod error, and start googling.
Have I missed something along the way here that has made this more difficult on myself than it needed to be?
For reference, here's the dependencies section of my pom...if you notice anything horrendously non-standard, please let me know!
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
<version>1.5.6</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
<version>1.5.6</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-lang</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-lang</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>ojdbc</groupId>
<artifactId>ojdbc</artifactId>
<version>14</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
<version>1.3.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-io</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
<version>1.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency><!-- java bytecode processor -->
<groupId>javassist</groupId>
<artifactId>javassist</artifactId>
<version>3.8.0.GA</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-dbcp</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-dbcp</artifactId>
<version>1.2.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>hsqldb</groupId>
<artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId>
<version>1.8.0.7</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.dbunit</groupId>
<artifactId>dbunit</artifactId>
<version>2.4.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring</artifactId>
<version>2.5.6</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
<version>2.5.6</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
<version>2.5.6</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-annotations</artifactId>
<version>3.4.0.GA</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-commons-annotations</artifactId>
<version>3.3.0.ga</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
<version>3.3.1.GA</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
<version>3.1.0.GA</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
<version>3.4.0.GA</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-lang</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-lang</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
Thanks
Marty
