Class 'org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean' not found

Question

I dont know why I am having the above error on this line of my code

<bean id="sessionFactory"
        class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">

this is the complete code

<bean id="sessionFactory"
        class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
        <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
        <property name="configLocation">
            <value>classpath:db/hibernate.cfg.xml</value>
        </property>
        <property name="hibernateProperties">
            <props>
                <prop key="hibernate.dialect">${hibernate.dialect}</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
            </props>
        </property>
    </bean>

What could be wrong?

possible duplicate http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7260131/java-spring-hibernate-cannot-find-org-springframework-orm-hibernate3-localsess — cihan adil seven, Jun 01 '16 at 12:56
are you using spring? some of the spring versions doesn't match with some of the hibernate versions. or check your dependencies, sometimes they are incompatible with main jars. — cihan adil seven, Jun 01 '16 at 13:07

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

I had this problem long ago and this was my solution :

Hibernate 4 support was added to Spring Framework in 3.1.

Your pom.xml references Spring Framework 2.5.6 hence org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean does not exist. You need to update your pom.xml to reference Spring Framework 3.1 or later.

ref : java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean

Class 'org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean' not found

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