I have an application using Spring 3.0.5, JPA2 and Hibernate 3.6.7. Maven\'s handling my dependency management. Here\'s a pom excerpt:
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I had a very similar problem with Hibernate 4.x, Spring 3.x, JPA 2.x, and CXF 2.7.5. I removed the reference to the spring-jpa artifact in my maven POM file, and inserted your recommended snippet. Worked magic! I no longer see the exception. Thanks!