title: maven repositories: Absent Code attribute in method
body: <p>I've been developing a spring/hibernate project and I'm trying to move to maven. I'm experiencing a nasty problem with tests while running <code>build</code>.</p>
  
  <p>As you would ask for it, my current pom.xml is <a href="https://github.com/tkoomzaaskz/lyricsBase/blob/da762c90b4b58f1924cd6118642ea24aa778fb2f/pom.xml" rel="nofollow">available on github</a>,  and the exception trace looks like the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to load ApplicationContext
      at org.springframework.test.context.TestContext.getApplicationContext(TestContext.java:157)
      at org.springframework.test.context.web.ServletTestExecutionListener.setUpRequestContextIfNecessary(ServletTestExecutionListener.java:103)
      at org.springframework.test.context.web.ServletTestExecutionListener.prepareTestInstance(ServletTestExecutionListener.java:73)
      at org.springframework.test.context.TestContextManager.prepareTestInstance(TestContextManager.java:313)
      at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.createTest(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:211)
      at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner$1.runReflectiveCall(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:288)
      at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:15)
      at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.methodBlock(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:284)
      at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:231)
      at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:88)
      at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:231)
      at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:60)
      at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:229)
      at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:50)
      at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:222)
      at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.RunBefores.evaluate(RunBefores.java:28)
      at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.statements.RunBeforeTestClassCallbacks.evaluate(RunBeforeTestClassCallbacks.java:61)
      at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.RunAfters.evaluate(RunAfters.java:30)
      at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.statements.RunAfterTestClassCallbacks.evaluate(RunAfterTestClassCallbacks.java:71)
      at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:300)
      at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.run(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:174)
      at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4TestSet.execute(JUnit4TestSet.java:53)
      at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.executeTestSet(JUnit4Provider.java:123)
      at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.invoke(JUnit4Provider.java:104)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616)
      at org.apache.maven.surefire.util.ReflectionUtils.invokeMethodWithArray(ReflectionUtils.java:164)
      at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ProviderFactory$ProviderProxy.invoke(ProviderFactory.java:110)
      at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireStarter.invokeProvider(SurefireStarter.java:175)
      at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireStarter.runSuitesInProcessWhenForked(SurefireStarter.java:107)
      at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.main(ForkedBooter.java:68)
  Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'sessionFactory' defined in class path resource [hibernate.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.ClassFormatError: Absent Code attribute in method that is not native or abstract in class file javax/transaction/SystemException
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1486)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:524)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:461)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:295)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:223)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:292)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:194)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:608)
      at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:932)
      at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:479)
      at org.springframework.test.context.support.AbstractGenericContextLoader.loadContext(AbstractGenericContextLoader.java:106)
      at org.springframework.test.context.support.AbstractGenericContextLoader.loadContext(AbstractGenericContextLoader.java:57)
      at org.springframework.test.context.support.AbstractDelegatingSmartContextLoader.delegateLoading(AbstractDelegatingSmartContextLoader.java:100)
      at org.springframework.test.context.support.AbstractDelegatingSmartContextLoader.loadContext(AbstractDelegatingSmartContextLoader.java:248)
      at org.springframework.test.context.TestContext.loadApplicationContext(TestContext.java:124)
      at org.springframework.test.context.TestContext.getApplicationContext(TestContext.java:148)
      ... 32 more
  Caused by: java.lang.ClassFormatError: Absent Code attribute in method that is not native or abstract in class file javax/transaction/SystemException
      at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
      at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:634)
      at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
      at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:277)
      at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:73)
      at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:212)
      at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
      at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205)
      at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:321)
      at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294)
      at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266)
      at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
      at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:266)
      at org.jboss.logging.Logger.getMessageLogger(Logger.java:2248)
      at org.jboss.logging.Logger.getMessageLogger(Logger.java:2214)
      at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.&lt;clinit&gt;(Configuration.java:176)
      at org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:277)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1545)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1483)
      ... 47 more
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've tried to add several dependencies I found on google, but they resulted in another strange exceptions. I read at <a href="http://www.mkyong.com/hibernate/java-lang-classformaterror-absent-code-attribute-in-method-that-is-not-native-or-abstract-in-class-file/" rel="nofollow">mkyong.com</a> that this could be because of java files not containing method bodies, but I checked the javaee-api package and it has the javax.transaction.SystemException class implemented.</p>