Spring Boot – package javax.persistence does not exist

By mkyong | Updated: September 9, 2023

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Tags: jakarta EE Java EE spring boot spring data jpa

We migrated the project to Spring Boot 3, and the JPA entity class hits package javax.persistence does not exist.

java: package javax.persistence does not exist

import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.GenerationType;
import javax.persistence.Id;  

P.S. Tested with Spring Boot 3.1.2

Solution

Spring Boot 3 migrated all Java EE APIs javax.* to their equivalent Jakarta EE variant jakarta.* due to the transition from Oracle to the Eclipse Foundation.

To fix this, we should use the Jakarta Persistence (JPA) APIs under the jakarta.persistence package instead of javax.persistence.

Spring Boot 3 using Jakarta EE APIs jakarta.*

import jakarta.persistence.Entity;
import jakarta.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import jakarta.persistence.GenerationType;
import jakarta.persistence.Id;

Spring Boot 2.x using Java EE APIs javax.*

import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.GenerationType;
import javax.persistence.Id;  

References

• Spring Boot 3.0.0-M1 is now available
• Transition from Java EE to Jakarta EE
• Spring Boot Tutorials
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