Hi,

I am a newbie to hibernate. please help me out with this error ASAP.


Oct 29, 2010 9:38:19 AM org.hibernate.cfg.annotations.Version <clinit>
INFO: Hibernate Annotations 3.2.0.GA
Oct 29, 2010 9:38:19 AM org.hibernate.cfg.Environment <clinit>
INFO: Hibernate 3.0.3
Oct 29, 2010 9:38:19 AM org.hibernate.cfg.Environment <clinit>
INFO: hibernate.properties not found
Oct 29, 2010 9:38:19 AM org.hibernate.cfg.Environment <clinit>
INFO: using CGLIB reflection optimizer
Oct 29, 2010 9:38:19 AM org.hibernate.cfg.Environment <clinit>
INFO: using JDK 1.4 java.sql.Timestamp handling

Initial SessionFactory creation failed.java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org/hibernate/cfg/AnnotationConfiguration.configure()Lorg/hibernate/cfg/AnnotationConfiguration;
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at org.subreg.utilities.HibernateUtil.<clinit>(HibernateUtil.java:15)
at java.lang.J9VMInternals.initializeImpl(Native Method)
at java.lang.J9VMInternals.initialize(J9VMInternals.java:194)
at org.subreg.hibernate.Main.main(Main.java:11)
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org/hibernate/cfg/AnnotationConfiguration.configure()Lorg/hibernate/cfg/AnnotationConfiguration;
at org.subreg.utilities.HibernateUtil.<clinit>(HibernateUtil.java:11)
... 3 more



These are the library files used

hibernate-distribution-3.3.2.GA-dist\hibernate-distribution-3.3.2.GA\hibernate3.jar
hibernate-distribution-3.3.2.GA-dist\hibernate-distribution-3.3.2.GA\lib\required\antlr-2.7.6.jar
hibernate-distribution-3.3.2.GA-dist\hibernate-distribution-3.3.2.GA\lib\required\commons-collections-3.1.jar
hibernate-distribution-3.3.2.GA-dist\hibernate-distribution-3.3.2.GA\lib\required\dom4j-1.6.1.jar
hibernate-distribution-3.3.2.GA-dist\hibernate-distribution-3.3.2.GA\lib\required\javassist-3.9.0.GA.jar
hibernate-distribution-3.3.2.GA-dist\hibernate-distribution-3.3.2.GA\lib\required\jta-1.1.jar
hibernate-distribution-3.3.2.GA-dist\hibernate-distribution-3.3.2.GA\lib\required\slf4j-api-1.5.8.jar
hibernate-distribution-3.3.2.GA-dist\hibernate-distribution-3.3.2.GA\lib\bytecode\cglib\cglib-2.2.jar
hibernate-annotations-3.4.0.GA\hibernate-annotations-3.4.0.GA\hibernate-annotations.jar
hibernate-annotations-3.4.0.GA\hibernate-annotations-3.4.0.GA\lib\ejb3-persistence.jar
hibernate-annotations-3.4.0.GA\hibernate-annotations-3.4.0.GA\lib\hibernate-commons-annotations.jar
hibernate-annotations-3.4.0.GA\hibernate-annotations-3.4.0.GA\lib\test\slf4j-log4j12.jar
hibernate-annotations-3.4.0.GA\hibernate-annotations-3.4.0.GA\lib\test\log4j.jar


This is the hibernate.cfg.xml


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">

<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory
name="java:hibernate/SessionFactory">
<property name="connection.datasource">java:/comp/env/jdbc/Dev</property>
<property name="transaction.factory_class">
org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransactionFactory
</property>
<property name="connection.pool_size">1</property>
<property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.OracleDialect</property>
<property name="show_sql">true</property>
<mapping class="org.subreg.hibernate.StudyConfig"/>
</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>


This is the util class used


import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
import org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration;

public class HibernateUtil {

private static final SessionFactory sessionFactory;
static {
try {
sessionFactory = new AnnotationConfiguration().configure()
.buildSessionFactory();
}catch (Throwable ex) {
System.err.println("Initial SessionFactory creation failed." + ex);
throw new ExceptionInInitializerError(ex);
}
}
public static SessionFactory getSessionFactory() {
return sessionFactory;
}
}

According to your log you have old hibernate libraries in your classpath:
-Hibernate results to be of version 3.0.3 instead to 3.3.2.GA
-Hibernate Annotations results to be of version 3.2.0.GA instead to 3.4.0.GA

Please review you classpath.
Also take into consideration to checkout the newest official version of hibernate (currently 3.6.0 Final),
where Hibernate Annotations is deployed within hibernate3.jar,
so there you cannot have such mismatch between jar dependencies.