Jun 9, 2010 8:12:17 PM org.hibernate.cfg.Environment <clinit>
INFO: Hibernate 3.5.2-Final
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.reset(Configuration.java:249)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.<init>(Configuration.java:216)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.<init>(Configuration.java:220)
at Hib.Persist.main(Persist.java:20)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.hibernate.util.ConfigHelper.getResourceAsStream(ConfigHelper.java:167)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Environment.<clinit>(Environment.java:585)
... 4 more



Hi I am getting the following exception at:
SessionFactory sessionfactory =new Configuration().configure().buildSessionFactory();

Can anyone please help me with this. I am a newbie to hibernate. I have included the hibernate jars in the classpath. Using Ant to include jars in the classpath.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at Hib.Persist.main(Persist.java:23)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.singleImplementationSanityCheck(LoggerFactory.java:192)
at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.performInitialization(LoggerFactory.java:113)
at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getILoggerFactory(LoggerFactory.java:269)
at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:242)
at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:255)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.<clinit>(Configuration.java:152)
... 1 more


Now after changing the jars i am getting the above exception

The jars currently used are :
antlr-2.7.6.jar
hibernate3.jar
dom4j-1.6.1.jar
commons-collections-3.1.jar
javassist-3.9.0.GA.jar
jta-1.1.jar
mysql-connector-java-5.1.10-bin.jar
slf4j-api-1.5.8.jar
slf4j-nop-1.5.8.jar