NoClassDefFoundError HibernateJpaVendorAdapter.java while deploying in wildfly 10.1 - wildfly-10

Question

I am finding it really hard to figure out the cause of the error. I have been getting this error during LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean creation in my config. I have attached the Error I get. I am using
Springboot
Wildfly 10.1
Hibernate-search
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/hibernate/HibernateException
at org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter.<init>(HibernateJpaVendorAdapter.java:66)
at com.mas.dhcpr3.config.Appconfig.entityManagerFactory(Appconfig.java:42)
at com.mas.dhcpr3.config.Appconfig$$EnhancerBySpringCGLIB$$b1fb2a11.CGLIB$entityManagerFactory$3(<generated>)
at com.mas.dhcpr3.config.Appconfig$$EnhancerBySpringCGLIB$$b1fb2a11$$FastClassBySpringCGLIB$$67e8e45c.invoke(<generated>)
at org.springframework.cglib.proxy.MethodProxy.invokeSuper(MethodProxy.java:228)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassEnhancer$BeanMethodInterceptor.intercept(ConfigurationClassEnhancer.java:358)
at com.mas.dhcpr3.config.Appconfig$$EnhancerBySpringCGLIB$$b1fb2a11.entityManagerFactory(<generated>)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.SimpleInstantiationStrategy.instantiate(SimpleInstantiationStrategy.java:162)
... 39 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.hibernate.HibernateException from [Module "deployment.newdhcpr3-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.war:main" from Service Module Loader]
at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.findClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:198)
at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassUnchecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:363)
at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:351)
at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.loadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:93)
... 51 more
The POM.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<artifactId>newdhcpr3</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<groupId>com.mas.dhcpr3</groupId>
<name>Spring Boot Data JPA Sample</name>
<description>Spring Boot Data JPA Sample</description>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<url>http://projects.spring.io/spring-boot/</url>
<organization>
<name>Pivotal Software, Inc.</name>
<url>http://www.spring.io</url>
</organization>
<properties>
<main.basedir>${basedir}/../..</main.basedir>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
<thymeleaf.version>3.0.3.RELEASE</thymeleaf.version>
<thymeleaf-layout-dialect.version>2.2.1</thymeleaf-layout-dialect.version>
</properties>
<parent>
<!-- Your own application should inherit from spring-boot-starter-parent -->
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.5.9.RELEASE</version>
</parent>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.hibernate.javax.persistence</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-jpa-2.1-api</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<!-- Search-->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-search-orm</artifactId>
<version>5.8.0.Final</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-batch</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat-embed-websocket</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hsqldb</groupId>
<artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
<optional>true</optional>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.mariadb.jdbc</groupId>
<artifactId>mariadb-java-client</artifactId>
<version>1.1.7</version>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- Servlet -->
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<excludes>
<exclude>com/mas/dhcpr3/newdhcpr3/data/*/*/*.java</exclude>
</excludes>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
The bean code
#Bean
public LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean entityManagerFactory() {
LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean em = new LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean();
em.setDataSource(dataSource());
em.setPackagesToScan(new String[] { "com.mas.dhcpr3.Entities" });
// em.setPersistenceProviderClass(HibernatePersistenceProvider.class);
em.setJpaProperties(additionalProperties());
JpaVendorAdapter vendorAdapter = new HibernateJpaVendorAdapter();
em.setJpaVendorAdapter(vendorAdapter);
return em;
}
Can any of you please help. I dont get any compilation error, and i can see the JPAVendorAdapter class in spring-orm 4.3 jar in my packaged war file. I was guessing that it could be because of the conflict in Wildfly's internal version. But i couldnt find any spring-orm jars. I am completely lost. can any of you please help Thank you