Hibernate Error – java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:javax/transaction/Synchronization

This is caused by missing of the “jta.jar“, usually happened in Hibernate transaction development.

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

You can download “jta.jar” from default Maven central, JBoss or Java.net repositories.