I can't start my Spring Boot application anymore after adding persistence. The error is:
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.data.repository.config.AnnotationRepositoryConfigurationSource.<init>(Lorg/springframework/core/type/AnnotationMetadata;Ljava/lang/Class;Lorg/springframework/core/io/ResourceLoader;Lorg/springframework/core/env/Environment;Lorg/springframework/beans/factory/support/BeanDefinitionRegistry;)V
at org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.data.AbstractRepositoryConfigurationSourceSupport$1.<init>(AbstractRepositoryConfigurationSourceSupport.java:68) ~[spring-boot-autoconfigure-1.5.7.RELEASE.jar:1.5.7.RELEASE]
I tracked this down to the changes in spring-data-commons where AnnotationRepositoryConfigurationSource resides and an additional constructor argument was added in version 1.13.5, and version 1.13.7 with the same constructor signature should be used by spring-boot-starter-data-jpa in version 1.5.7. And we only use Spring Boot dependencies with version number 1.5.7.
So then I built the dependency tree and strangely found spring-data-commons in version 1.13.4, not 1.13.7 (third to last line):
...(snippet)
[INFO] +- com.name.project:project-subproject8:jar:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT:compile
[INFO] | \- org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa:jar:1.5.7.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] | +- org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-jdbc:jar:1.5.4.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] | | +- org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-jdbc:jar:8.5.15:compile
[INFO] | | | \- org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-juli:jar:8.5.15:compile
[INFO] | | \- org.springframework:spring-jdbc:jar:4.3.9.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] | +- org.hibernate:hibernate-core:jar:5.0.12.Final:compile
[INFO] | | +- org.hibernate.javax.persistence:hibernate-jpa-2.1-api:jar:1.0.0.Final:compile
[INFO] | | +- antlr:antlr:jar:2.7.7:compile
[INFO] | | +- org.jboss:jandex:jar:2.0.0.Final:compile
[INFO] | | +- dom4j:dom4j:jar:1.6.1:compile
[INFO] | | \- org.hibernate.common:hibernate-commons-annotations:jar:5.0.1.Final:compile
[INFO] | +- org.hibernate:hibernate-entitymanager:jar:5.0.12.Final:compile
[INFO] | +- javax.transaction:javax.transaction-api:jar:1.2:compile
[INFO] | +- org.springframework.data:spring-data-jpa:jar:1.11.4.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] | | +- org.springframework.data:spring-data-commons:jar:1.13.4.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] | | \- org.springframework:spring-orm:jar:4.3.9.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] | \- org.springframework:spring-aspects:jar:4.3.9.RELEASE:compile
...
Going up the tree you can see that spring-data-jpa is included in version 1.11.4, whereas, according to Spring Boot Dependency Appendix, it should be version 1.11.7. This seems to cause the error. But we don't depend on spring-data-jpa directly via our pom files.
So I don't know how this older version got into the dependency tree. The pom of spring-boot-starter-data-jpa doesn't indicate any version numbers.