Error: No setter found for property 'packagesToScan'. At servlet-context.xml

[Ramon Bonet]

Hello,

Trying to connect Hibernate 3 with my Spring application, I wrote this bean at servlet-context.xml:

<beans:bean id="sessionFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean">
	<beans:property	name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
	<beans:property name="packagesToScan" value="cat.tfcproject.springmvc.domain"/>
	<beans:property	name="hibernateProperties">
		<beans:props>
			<beans:prop	key="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect</beans:prop>
		</beans:props>
	</beans:property>
</beans:bean>

No errors, except packagesToScan. I have no idea about how to create a setter for 'packagesToScan', where it has suppose to be created, or how to set it.

I read in some forums looking for an answer, that application has to be implemented under a recent Spring version, 3.1 or upper, but I already have 3.2.0.RELEASE version, as 'Help' main-menu option indicates me



Any Idea?

[Prajakta Acharya]

This is just a wild guess, not sure if thats the reason.

I looked at the AnnotationSessionFactoryBean class and it has 'packagesToScan' as a String[] as opposed to String.
(I have Spring3.0 installed though)
So if at all there is a different way to set array property in Spring configuration file..

[bala nannaka]

Can you try the below code

<property name="packagesToScan">
            <list>
                <value>cat.tfcproject.springmvc.domain</value>
            </list>
        </property>

[Ramon Bonet]

Issue fixed: packagesToScan needs the 'orm' artifact, from 'org.springframework' group dependences, and it has to be a 3.2.2 version or newer

Using maven, at pom.xml file, include de newest version of org.springframework, inside <properties> element before <dependency> declarations:

<properties>
	<java-version>1.6</java-version>
	<org.springframework-version>3.2.3.RELEASE</org.springframework-version>
	<org.aspectj-version>1.6.10</org.aspectj-version>
	<org.slf4j-version>1.6.6</org.slf4j-version>
</properties>

3.2.3.RELEASE is the current last version

Then include the following dependency:

<dependency>
	<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
	<artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
	<version>${org.springframework-version}</version>
</dependency>

REMEMBER: all artifacts of the same group Id dependencies must have the same version. So if you are using others org.springframwork artifacts, be sure they are running under ${org.springframework-version} value version (3.2.3.RELEASE in this case)

Thread solved!