Error: javax.persistence.JoinColumn.foreignKey()Ljavax/persistence/ForeignKey with Spring controller

Question

I have a simple two table application written in Spring MVC and which uses Hibernate. Everything works perfectly well but if I try to unit test one of the controllers, I get

Answer 1

If you are on JBoss EAP 6.4.x

Chances are it came with the JPA 2.0 and you will need to manually update it to 2.1! Follow the simple steps which worked for me.

Download the JPA 2.1 from maven repository and update the JBoss module http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.hibernate.javax.persistence/hibernate-jpa-2.1-api

Copy the file into the JBoss modules directory

Update the module.xml on the same directory