Encountered a deprecated javax.persistence.spi.PersistenceProvider

Question

when you use spring & Hibernate, have you ever met a log warning that says

WARN o.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence - HHH015016: Encountered a

Answer 1

You get this message because the class org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence is deprecated. Under my persistence.xml file I found the provider class had org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence and I changed it to org.hibernate.jpa.HibernatePersistenceProvider as mentioned in the stacktrace warning message.

persistence.xml

<persistence-unit name="personPersistenceUnit" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">
    <provider>org.hibernate.jpa.HibernatePersistenceProvider</provider>
    <class>Person</class>
    <properties>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/db_name"/>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>
        <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect" />
        ....
    </properties>
</persistence-unit>

Answer 2

If you are working with Spring Data JPA and Java Configuration, you will be able to solve it, adding the following code in your Entity Manager Factory:

factory.setPersistenceProvider(new HibernatePersistenceProvider());

@Bean
    public EntityManagerFactory entityManagerFactory() throws SQLException {

      HibernateJpaVendorAdapter vendorAdapter = new HibernateJpaVendorAdapter();
      vendorAdapter.setGenerateDdl(true);
      vendorAdapter.setShowSql(true);

      LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean factory = new LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean();
      factory.setJpaVendorAdapter(vendorAdapter);
      **factory.setPersistenceProvider(new HibernatePersistenceProvider());**
      factory.setPackagesToScan("com.company.appname.persistence.domain");
      factory.setDataSource(dataSource());

      factory.setJpaProperties(hibernateProperties());
      factory.afterPropertiesSet();

      return factory.getObject();
    }

You will find a good example of Hibernate configuration with Spring Data JPA here: http://spring.io/guides/tutorials/data/3/

Answer 3

For users who are not using SPRING:

We can replace the standard javax.persistence bootstrapping by a Hibernate specific one.

Old:

EntityManagerFactory emf = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(
    PERSISTENCE_UNIT, props );

New:

PersistenceProvider provider = new HibernatePersistenceProvider();
EntityManagerFactory emf = provider.createEntityManagerFactory(
   PERSISTENCE_UNIT, props);

The deprecated warnings should now be gone. The problem was still present in 4.3.1.Final. In 5.1.0.Final it should be fixed.

Answer 4

After changing your org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence to org.hibernate.jpa.HibernatePersistenceProvider in the persistence.xml Change also the hibernate-entitymanager dependency version, get the last version 5.2.10.Final that fixed the bug. Here is:

http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.hibernate/hibernate-entitymanager/5.2.10.Final

it's worked for me

Answer 5

Had this problem while working with JPA's Entity Manager in Spring context, having transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL" in persistence.xml.

It's not always a bug. I actually had the wrong provider configured.

I just changed the provider in persistence.xml from

<provider>org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence</provider>

to

<provider>org.hibernate.jpa.HibernatePersistenceProvider</provider>

and it works fine.

Notice that the package changed from EJB to JPA

Answer 6

I changed the reference to:

org.hibernate.jpa.HibernatePersistenceProvider

but it didn't work.

Then I removed all the references to Hibernate 4.x jar libs, downloaded last version (5.2.7), then added this jar files and it finally works.