Issue
Problem Statement
I am receiving the following exception when I run my Spring Boot application.
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APPLICATION FAILED TO START
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Description:
An attempt was made to call a method that does not exist. The attempt was made from the following location:
org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationBinder.bindJoinedTableAssociation(AnnotationBinder.java:2548)
The following method did not exist:
javax.persistence.JoinTable.indexes()[Ljavax/persistence/Index;
The method's class, javax.persistence.JoinTable, is available from the following locations:
jar:file:/C:/Users/Usuario/IdeaProjects/spring-security/lib/javax.persistence.jar!/javax/persistence/JoinTable.class
jar:file:/C:/Users/Usuario/.m2/repository/jakarta/persistence/jakarta.persistence-api/2.2.3/jakarta.persistence-api-2.2.3.jar!/javax/persistence/JoinTable.class
The class hierarchy was loaded from the following locations:
javax.persistence.JoinTable: file:/C:/Users/Usuario/IdeaProjects/spring-security/lib/javax.persistence.jar
Action:
Correct the classpath of your application so that it contains a single, compatible version of javax.persistence.JoinTable
Process finished with exit code 1
Below is the contents of my pom.xml file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.5.4</version>
<relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>
<groupId>com.example</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>spring-security</name>
<description>spring-security</description>
<properties>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.thymeleaf.extras</groupId>
<artifactId>thymeleaf-extras-springsecurity5</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
<artifactId>h2</artifactId>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
How to I remove one of the versions of javax.persistence.JoinTable?
Solution
Multiple javax.persistence.JoinTable
The issue is most likely related to the duplicate javax.persistence.* libraries. I see you have the following two dependencies
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>
Remove the org.springframework.data.spring-data-jpa dependency.
The org.springframework.boot.spring-boot-starter-data-jpa dependency already includes org.springframework.data.spring-data-jpa which is being added transitively.
Make sure to run a mvn clean before packaging and testing the new jar file
Non Maven lib directory
It also looks like there is a lib directory in your project that may have dependencies that are not managed by Maven. Please delete at least the javax.persistence library from that location
Answered By - Chris Maggiulli