Could not parse - org.dom4j.DocumentException: org.dom4j.DocumentFactory cannot be cast to org.dom4j.DocumentFactory

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I am deploying my application to Tomcat 6.0.20.

Application uses Hibernate as ORM, Spring, and JSF for web-tier.

I also made simple runner from main() method to test Spring-Hibernate collaboration. And it does work fine and hibernate.cfg.xml is parsed pretty well.

I can append some code or full stack trace but I'm not sure that it's necessary because Google says that it's typical problem and it's easy to recognize it from the title. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the solution..

So, who knows how to fix this problem?

Bozho · Accepted Answer · 2009-11-26 15:30:55Z

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Make sure you don't have two different dom4j jars on your classpath.

answered Nov 26, 2009 at 15:30

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bmargulies Over a year ago

like one in the tomcat system classpath and one in your webapp.

bnguyen82 Over a year ago

@bmargulies: Right. We mustn't put hibernate jars in Tomcat. Do put it in web app lib.

Jaanus · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-15 10:42:28Z

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I solved it by excluding dom4j from hibernate entitymanager.

Also make sure you do mvn clean before.

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
        <artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
        <version>4.1.5.SP1</version>
        <scope>compile</scope>
        <exclusions> 
            <exclusion>
                <groupId>dom4j</groupId>
                <artifactId>dom4j</artifactId>
            </exclusion>
        </exclusions>
    </dependency>

answered Mar 15, 2013 at 10:42

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ibrabeicker · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-16 19:41:59Z

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I solved by adding dom4j to my pom.xml and making the scope provided

<dependency>
    <groupId>dom4j</groupId>
    <artifactId>dom4j</artifactId>
    <version>1.6.1</version>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

answered Sep 16, 2014 at 19:41

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OJVM Over a year ago

It worked for me too. my configuration is spring 3.6.3.2.11.RELEASE Hibernate 3.6.10.Final running in jboss-eap-4.3

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