Re: ClassNotFoundException

[Neil Bartlett]

As the stack trace shows, some code within Hibernate has done a Class.forName() to look up com.MyClass. Of course in a modular world, just a class name is not enough to find a class; you also have to know which module has that class. In this case it looks like Hibernate has guessed that it can just call Class.forName() with one argument, which causes it to use its own classloader, which then delegates up to the surrounding web container. In other words, Hibernate is stupid, and breaks modularity! It's well known to OSGi programmers as a "difficult" library to use. If Hibernate could import the package containing the domain class, then all would be well. Since you don't want to rebuild Hibernate for every possible domain package, you could look at creating a fragment with Hibernate as its host and adding the Import-Package for the domain. Regards Neil chad.da...@emc.com 15 May 2012 20:17 I'm working with a Felix container embedded into a Tomcat deployed Webapp. Felix is started inside of an ApplicationContextListener. We then install some bundles at run time. Mostly, it kind of works ;) However, there are glitches. Though I don't pretend to understand the details, I gather that there are issues with running Felix inside of a webapp like this. I would love to have some insight on that topic. My current and specific issue is this. My bundles all resolve, which to me means that all of my imported classes should be visible. However, one of my bundle activator's blows up complaining about a class not found. That class is from a package that DEFINITELY has resolved. So, what's happening here? Here's a bit of my stack trace. Is it right for the WebappClassLoader to be involved here? Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.MyClass at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1438) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1284) at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source) at org.hibernate.annotations.common.util.ReflectHelper.classForName(ReflectHelper.java:78) Thanks! Chad