I'm migrating a legacy Spring3/Hibernate3/JBoss5 codebase to Spring4/Hibernate4 on JBoss Wildfly8. Getting Spring4 and Hibernate4 to play well together using JTA on Wildfly has been a challenge so far.  The issues that I'm facing are:

1. Hibernate is unable to get the transaction. The error happens in line 92 of hibernate-orm/JTASessionContext.java at master · hibernate/hibernate-orm · GitHub

2. To get around the issue#1, I open a new Hibernate session (when getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession() throws the exception above). Hibernate is then unable to locate the userTransaction at line 79 of hibernate-orm/JtaTransactionFactory.java at master · hibernate/hibernate-orm · GitHub

The JNDI view in the Wildfly console shows java:jboss/TransactionManager and java:jboss/UserTransaction as follows:

The Spring setup "seems" to be ok based on initial debugging. And the Hibernate session seems not to be in sync. Not sure what I'm missing here, so I would really appreciate it if anyone has tried this before and has any suggestions. Here's the relevant snippet of what I have in the Spring config xml:

    <bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.transaction.jta.JtaTransactionManager">

        <property name="userTransactionName" value="java:jboss/UserTransaction"/>

        <property name="transactionManagerName" value="java:jboss/TransactionManager"/>

    </bean>

     <tx:annotation-driven/>

    <bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jndi.JndiObjectFactoryBean" lazy-init="false">

        <property name="jndiName" value="java:jboss/datasources/jdbc/my-srvr"/>

        <property name="cache">

            <value>false</value>

        </property>

        <property name="proxyInterface">

            <value>javax.sql.DataSource</value>

        </property>

    </bean>

    <bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean" lazy-init="true">

        <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>

        <property name="jtaTransactionManager" ref="transactionManager"/>

        <property name="packagesToScan" value="com.mydomain" />

        <property name="mappingResources">

            <list>

                <value>sample1.hbm.xml</value>

                <value>sample2.hbm.xml</value>

            </list>

        </property>

        <property name="hibernateProperties">

            <props>

                <prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect</prop>

                <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">false</prop>

                <prop key="hibernate.generate_statistics">false</prop>

                <!-- JTA  -->

                <prop key="hibernate.transaction.factory_class">org.hibernate.engine.transaction.internal.jta.JtaTransactionFactory</prop>

                <prop key="hibernate.flushMode">AUTO</prop>

                <prop key="jta.UserTransaction">java:jboss/UserTransaction</prop>

                <prop key="jta.TransactionManager">java:jboss/TransactionManager</prop>

                <prop key="hibernate.transaction.jta.platform">org.hibernate.engine.transaction.jta.platform.internal.JBossAppServerJtaPlatform</prop>

                <prop key="hibernate.current_session_context_class">org.hibernate.context.internal.JTASessionContext</prop>

               <!--Turned off caching to focus on JTA issues-->

               <prop key="hibernate.cache.use_second_level_cache">false</prop>

                <prop key="hibernate.cache.use_query_cache">false</prop>

                <!--prop key="hibernate.cache.provider_class">org.hibernate.cache.ehcache.EhCacheRegionFactory</prop-->

                <prop key="hibernate.cache.region.factory_class">org.hibernate.cache.ehcache.EhCacheRegionFactory</prop>

                <prop key="net.sf.ehcache.configurationResourceName">sample-ehcache.xml</prop>

            </props>

        </property>

        <!--No hibernate4 equivalent in Spring; comment out for now-->

        <!--property name="eventListeners">

            <map>

                <entry key="merge">

                    <bean class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.support.IdTransferringMergeEventListener"/>

                </entry>

            </map>

        </property-->

    </bean>

Thanks in advance!