Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/transaction/SystemException

You dont’ have javax.transaction.SystemException on your runtime classpath.

This can be fixed by adding dependency to your pom.xml if you use Maven

<dependency>
    <groupId>javax.transaction</groupId>
    <artifactId>javax.transaction-api</artifactId>
    <version>1.2</version>
</dependency>

If you are using gradle, here is the dependency.

compile group: 'javax.transaction', name: 'javax.transaction-api', version: '1.2'