Solving BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'entityManagerFactory'

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I've lost quite some time on this error recently :

Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'entityManagerFactory' defined in class path resource [org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/orm/jpa/HibernateJpaAutoConfiguration.class]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.AbstractMethodError: org.hibernate.jpa.boot.internal.EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl$4.getConfigurationValues()Ljava/util/Map;
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1574)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:539)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:476)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:303)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:230)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:299)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:194)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.getBean(AbstractApplicationContext.java:956)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:747)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:480)
        at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refresh(SpringApplication.java:686)
        at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:320)

Bottom line: it was due to a mismatch between Spring Boot Hibernate version, and the one I used in my project, defined in pom.xml.

Simply make sure that they match, e.g by looking here for version 1.2.3.RELEASE.

EDIT 14/04/2016: adding a couple of comments that an anonymous visitor tried to post:

I faced the same exception when including hibernate-search ontop of spring-boot + hibernate + spring-mvc project! What is the exact resolution?

Resolution: use 4.5.x hibernate-search-orm artifact. works fine with the latest spring-boot. atleast the unit tests are starting to run! :-)

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