dpHibernate: serializerFactory not initialized by Spring -> NullPointerException on service access - apache-flex

Question

I am trying to get dpHibernate 2.0 RC6 running on an Apache Tomcat 7.0.12 with BlazeDS 4.0.0.14931, Spring 3.0.5 and Spring-BlazeDS-Integration 1.5.0.M2
With the following configuration the server starts fine, but as soon as I want to access a service or the RDSDispatchServlet via FlashBuilder4 DCD I am getting a NullPointerException. It seems the serializerFactory is not correctly injected into the dpHibernate HibernateUtil. Did I miss something in the configuration in remoting-config.xml?
web.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
version="2.5">
<display-name>Server</display-name>
<description>Server Side based on BlazeDS, Spring and Hibernate</description>
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<listener>
<listener-class>flex.messaging.HttpFlexSession</listener-class>
</listener>
<!-- begin SPRING INTEGRATION -->
<servlet>
<servlet-name>springMessageBroker</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
</servlet-class>
<!-- <init-param> -->
<!-- <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name> -->
<!-- <param-value></param-value> Do not use if using ContextLoaderListener (would load app context twice -> Error) -->
<!-- </init-param> -->
<init-param>
<param-name>services.configuration.file</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/flex/services-config.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>springMessageBroker</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/messagebroker/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<!-- end SPRING INTEGRATION -->
<!-- begin rds -->
<servlet>
<servlet-name>RDSDispatchServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>flex.rds.server.servlet.FrontEndServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>useAppserverSecurity</param-name>
<param-value>false</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>messageBrokerId</param-name>
<param-value>_messageBroker</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>10</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>RDSDispatchServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/CFIDE/main/ide.cfm</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<!-- end rds -->
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>index.htm</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<filter>
<filter-name>dpHibernateSessionFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.dphibernate.filters.HibernateSessionServletFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>dpHibernateSessionFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
</web-app>
applicationContext.xml (Spring Servlet default configuration file)
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:flex="http://www.springframework.org/schema/flex"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:jdbc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc"
xmlns:security="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/flex
http://www.springframework.org/schema/flex/spring-flex-1.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">
<import resource="flexContext.xml" />
<import resource="dataAccessContext.xml" />
<import resource="dpHibernateContext.xml"/>
<!-- Enable Spring Transaction Manager with Annotations -->
<tx:annotation-driven />
<context:annotation-config />
<bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
<property name="locations" value="/WEB-INF/server.properties" /></bean>
<context:component-scan base-package="com.mycompany.myproject.*" />
</beans>
flexContext.xml (definitions of services available for flex)
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:flex="http://www.springframework.org/schema/flex"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/flex
http://www.springframework.org/schema/flex/spring-flex-1.0.xsd">
<flex:message-destination id="chat"/>
<flex:message-broker services-config-path="/WEB-INF/flex/services-config.xml">
<flex:remoting-service default-adapter-id="dpHibernateRemotingAdapter" default-channels="my-amf,my-secure-amf" />
<flex:message-service default-channels="my-streaming-amf,my-polling-amf"/>
</flex:message-broker>
</beans>
fpHibernateContext.xml (configuration of dpHibernate)
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:flex="http://www.springframework.org/schema/flex"
xmlns:security="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/flex
http://www.springframework.org/schema/flex/spring-flex-1.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/security
http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/util
http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.0.xsd
">
<!-- Defines the remoting adapter, which intercepts inbound & outbound messages, and routes them thruogh dpHibernate -->
<bean id="dpHibernateRemotingAdapter"
class="org.springframework.flex.core.ManageableComponentFactoryBean">
<constructor-arg value="org.dphibernate.adapters.RemotingAdapter" />
<property name="properties">
<value>
{"dpHibernate" :
{
"serializerFactory" : "org.dphibernate.serialization.SpringContextSerializerFactory"
}
}
</value>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="dpHibernateMessagingAdapter"
class="org.springframework.flex.core.ManageableComponentFactoryBean">
<constructor-arg value="org.dphibernate.adapters.MessagingAdapter" />
</bean>
<bean id="dataAccessService" class="org.dphibernate.services.SpringLazyLoadService" autowire="constructor">
<flex:remoting-destination />
</bean>
<!-- Required -->
<bean id="hibernateSessionFilter" class="org.dphibernate.filters.SpringHibernateSessionServletFilter" />
<!-- The cache is used to prevent serializing the same object many times during serialization. Required -->
<bean id="dpHibernateCache"
class="org.dphibernate.serialization.DPHibernateCache" scope="prototype" />
<!-- The main serializer. Converts outbound POJO's to ASObjects with dpHibernate proxies for lazy loading. Required -->
<bean id="dpHibernateSerializer"
class="org.dphibernate.serialization.HibernateSerializer" scope="prototype">
<property name="pageSize" value="10"/>
</bean>
<bean id="dpHibernateDeserializer" class="org.dphibernate.serialization.HibernateDeserializer" scope="prototype" />
<!-- Handles entity updates (CRUD). Required if using entity persistence. -->
<bean id="objectChangeUpdater"
class="org.dphibernate.persistence.state.AuthenticatedObjectChangeUpdater"
scope="prototype">
<property name="preProcessors" ref="dpHibernatePreProcessors" />
<property name="postProcessors" ref="dpHibernatePostProcessors" />
</bean>
</beans>
remoting-config.xml (imported in services-config.xml)
<service id="remoting-service"
class="flex.messaging.services.RemotingService"
messageTypes="flex.messaging.messages.RemotingMessage">
<adapters>
<adapter-definition id="hibernate-object" class="org.dphibernate.adapters.RemotingAdapter" default="true">
<properties>
<hibernate>
<sessionFactory>
<class>org.dphibernate.utils.HibernateUtil</class>
<getCurrentSessionMethod>getCurrentSession</getCurrentSessionMethod>
</sessionFactory>
</hibernate>
</properties>
</adapter-definition>
<adapter-definition id="java-object" class="flex.messaging.services.remoting.adapters.JavaAdapter"/>
</adapters>
<default-channels>
<channel ref="my-amf"/>
</default-channels>
</service>
NullPointerException (on service access or rds access via FB4 DCD)
startInternal INFO: Starting Servlet
Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.12
11.04.2011 18:34:19 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext
log INFO: Initializing Spring root
WebApplicationContext 1027 [Thread-2]
INFO
org.hibernate.annotations.common.Version
- Hibernate Commons Annotations 3.2.0.Final 1066 [Thread-2] INFO org.hibernate.cfg.Environment -
Hibernate 3.6.2.Final 1074 [Thread-2]
INFO org.hibernate.cfg.Environment -
hibernate.properties not found 1085
[Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.cfg.Environment -
Bytecode provider name : javassist
1116 [Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.cfg.Environment - using
JDK 1.4 java.sql.Timestamp handling
2146 [Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration -
Hibernate Validator not found:
ignoring 2182 [Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.cfg.search.HibernateSearchEventListenerRegister
- Unable to find org.hibernate.search.event.FullTextIndexEventListener
on the classpath. Hibernate Search is
not enabled. 2194 [Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.connection.ConnectionProviderFactory
- Initializing connection provider: org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalDataSourceConnectionProvider
2658 [Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory -
Database ->
name : MySQL
version : 5.0.51a-24+lenny5-log
major : 5
minor : 0 2658 [Thread-2] INFO org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory -
Driver ->
name : MySQL-AB JDBC Driver
version : mysql-connector-java-5.1.15 (
Revision: ${bzr.revision-id} )
major : 5
minor : 1 2861 [Thread-2] INFO org.hibernate.dialect.Dialect - Using
dialect:
org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect
2981 [Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.transaction.TransactionFactoryFactory
- Transaction strategy: org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.SpringTransactionFactory
2991 [Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.transaction.TransactionManagerLookupFactory
- No TransactionManagerLookup configured (in JTA environment, use of
read-write or transactional
second-level cache is not recommended)
2991 [Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory -
Automatic flush during
beforeCompletion(): disabled 2991
[Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory -
Automatic session close at end of
transaction: disabled 2991 [Thread-2]
INFO org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory
- JDBC batch size: 20 2991 [Thread-2] INFO org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory
- JDBC batch updates for versioned data: disabled 2998 [Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory -
Scrollable result sets: enabled 2998
[Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory -
JDBC3 getGeneratedKeys(): enabled 2998
[Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory -
Connection release mode: auto 3003
[Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory -
Maximum outer join fetch depth: 2 3003
[Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory -
Default batch fetch size: 1 3003
[Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory -
Generate SQL with comments: disabled
3003 [Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory -
Order SQL updates by primary key:
disabled 3003 [Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory -
Order SQL inserts for batching:
disabled 3003 [Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory -
Query translator:
org.hibernate.hql.ast.ASTQueryTranslatorFactory
3023 [Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.hql.ast.ASTQueryTranslatorFactory
- Using ASTQueryTranslatorFactory 3023 [Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory -
Query language substitutions: {} 3023
[Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory -
JPA-QL strict compliance: disabled
3023 [Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory -
Second-level cache: enabled 3023
[Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory -
Query cache: disabled 3029 [Thread-2]
INFO org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory
- Cache region factory : org.hibernate.cache.impl.bridge.RegionFactoryCacheProviderBridge
3074 [Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.cache.impl.bridge.RegionFactoryCacheProviderBridge
- Cache provider: org.hibernate.cache.HashtableCacheProvider
3084 [Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory -
Optimize cache for minimal puts:
disabled 3084 [Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory -
Structured second-level cache entries:
disabled 3131 [Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory -
Echoing all SQL to stdout 3138
[Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory -
Statistics: disabled 3138 [Thread-2]
INFO org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory
- Deleted entity synthetic identifier rollback: disabled 3138 [Thread-2]
INFO org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory
- Default entity-mode: pojo 3138 [Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory -
Named query checking : enabled 3138
[Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory -
Check Nullability in Core (should be
disabled when Bean Validation is on):
enabled 3239 [Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl
- building session factory 3282 [Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.type.BasicTypeRegistry -
Type registration [blob] overrides
previous :
org.hibernate.type.BlobType#17f7be7b
3282 [Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.type.BasicTypeRegistry -
Type registration [java.sql.Blob]
overrides previous :
org.hibernate.type.BlobType#17f7be7b
3282 [Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.type.BasicTypeRegistry -
Type registration [materialized_clob]
overrides previous :
org.hibernate.type.MaterializedClobType#9fa8988
3282 [Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.type.BasicTypeRegistry -
Type registration
[wrapper_materialized_blob] overrides
previous :
org.hibernate.type.WrappedMaterializedBlobType#1f5b44d6
3282 [Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.type.BasicTypeRegistry -
Type registration [clob] overrides
previous :
org.hibernate.type.ClobType#21044daf
3282 [Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.type.BasicTypeRegistry -
Type registration [java.sql.Clob]
overrides previous :
org.hibernate.type.ClobType#21044daf
3282 [Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.type.BasicTypeRegistry -
Type registration [characters_clob]
overrides previous :
org.hibernate.type.PrimitiveCharacterArrayClobType#21882d18
3282 [Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.type.BasicTypeRegistry -
Type registration
[wrapper_characters_clob] overrides
previous :
org.hibernate.type.CharacterArrayClobType#734893da
3282 [Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.type.BasicTypeRegistry -
Type registration [materialized_blob]
overrides previous :
org.hibernate.type.MaterializedBlobType#21e30857
3379 [Thread-2] INFO
org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryObjectFactory
- Not binding factory to JNDI, no JNDI name configured
11.04.2011 18:34:36 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext
log INFO: Initializing Spring
FrameworkServlet 'springMessageBroker'
11.04.2011 18:34:36 org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocolHandler
start INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler
["http-bio-8080"]
11.04.2011 18:34:36 org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocolHandler
start INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler
["ajp-bio-8009"]
11.04.2011 18:34:36 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina
start INFO: Server startup in 21332 ms
11.04.2011 18:49:02 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve
invoke SCHWERWIEGEND:
Servlet.service() for servlet
[RDSDispatchServlet] in context with
path [/myJavaServer] threw
exception
java.lang.NullPointerException at
org.dphibernate.utils.HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory(Unknown
Source) at
org.dphibernate.filters.HibernateSessionServletFilter.getSessionFactory(Unknown
Source) at
org.dphibernate.filters.AbstractHibernateSessionServletFilter.doFilter(Unknown
Source) at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:240)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:164)
at
org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:462)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:164)
at
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:100)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118)
at
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:395)
at
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:250)
at
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:188)
at
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:166)
at
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:302)
at
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at
java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
org.dphibernate.utils.HibernateUtil (snippet)
private static ISerializerFactory serializerFactory; // should be injected by Spring
public static SessionFactory getSessionFactory() throws HibernateException
{
return serializerFactory.getSessionFactory(); // but is null on this call?
}

Answer 1

The remotingConfig.xml isn't needed, and appears to be what's causing your problems.
Typically, in a Spring configuration, the HibernateUtil class you've shown there isn't used (the SpringContextSerializerFactory returns the SessionFactory to ensure you're getting the correct one from your Spring session)
However, it looks like your remotingConfig.xml file is overwriting the default settings, forcing it to use the old HibernateUtil approach, which is throwing your NPE.