This is caused by missing of the jta.jar library. It’s usually happened when you involve in the Hibernate’s transaction.

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/transaction/Synchronization
 at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.<init>(SessionImpl.java:213)
 at org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl.openSession(SessionFactoryImpl.java:473)
 at org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl.openSession(SessionFactoryImpl.java:497)
 at org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl.openSession(SessionFactoryImpl.java:505)
 at com.mkyong.common.App.main(App.java:13)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.transaction.Synchronization
 at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
 at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
 at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
 at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)
 ... 5 more

Solution

The ‘jta.jar is not located at the Maven central repository, it just has jta’s pom file only.

You can download it in another two Maven’s repositories.

1. JBoss Maven repository

Add the addition JBoss Maven repository

	<repositories>
		<repository>
			<id>JBoss repository</id>
			<url>http://repository.jboss.com/maven2/</url>
		</repository>
	</repositories>

and download the jta1.1.jar

	<dependencies>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>javax.transaction</groupId>
			<artifactId>jta</artifactId>
			<version>1.1</version>
		</dependency>
	</dependencies>

2. Java net Maven repository

Add the addition Java net Maven repository

	<repositories>
		<repository>
			<id>Java 2</id>
			<url>http://download.java.net/maven/2/</url>
		</repository>
	</repositories>

and download the jta1.0.1B.jar

	<dependencies>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>javax.transaction</groupId>
			<artifactId>jta</artifactId>
			<version>1.0.1B</version>
		</dependency>
	</dependencies>
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