java - javax.persistence.PersistenceException: No Persistence provider for EntityManager named customerManager

Question

I am new to JPA & Hibernate. After reading some online materials I now understand what Hibernate is and how it can be used with JPA.

Now, I am trying to run this JPA & Hibernate tutorial. I've done everything they mention in this tutorial.

I don't have Oracle DB, only MySQL. So I made some changes to persistence.xml using my understanding of JPA & Hibernate (I don't know if it's correct or not... Seems to me it is.)

Here is my persistence.xml

<persistence xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemalocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_1_0.xsd" version="1.0">
  <persistence-unit name="customerManager" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">
    <provider>org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence</provider>
    <class>Customer</class>
    <properties>
      <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect"/>
      <property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>
      <property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="true"/>
      <property name="hibernate.connection.username" value="root"/>
      <property name="hibernate.connection.password" value="1234"/>
      <property name="hibernate.connection.url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/general"/>
      <property name="hibernate.max_fetch_depth" value="3"/>
    </properties>
  </persistence-unit>
</persistence>

But I don't seem to get the output they describe. It's giving me:

Customer id before creation:null
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.hibernate.cfg.annotations.Version).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
Exception in thread "main" javax.persistence.PersistenceException: No Persistence     provider for EntityManager named customerManager
 at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:55)
 at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:33)
 at CustomerDAO.create(CustomerDAO.java:8)
 at CustomerDAO.main(CustomerDAO.java:22)

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Update:

I have made the changes that are asked to done. But, still getting the asme error lines!!!

They didnt mentioned anything about orm.xml in that tutorial. may it be a problem causer!!!

Answer 1

Just for completeness. There is another situation causing this error:

missing META-INF/services/javax.persistence.spi.PersistenceProvider file.

For Hibernate, it's located in hibernate-entitymanager-XXX.jar, so, if hibernate-entitymanager-XXX.jar is not in your classpath, you will got this error too.

This error message is so misleading, and it costs me hours to get it correct.

See JPA 2.0 using Hibernate as provider - Exception: No Persistence provider for EntityManager.