Hi all.

I am trying to set up Hibernate to work with Apache Derby (embedded mode), as well as Maven, and i'm a bit confused. Would be nice with some help from someone who has used this combination before. I have used Hibernate on another project, but never set it up, so it's all a bit confusing at the moment.

So far, I have set up the pom.xml of Maven to include Hibernate (using code i found online):
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
<version>3.3.2.GA</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-annotations</artifactId>
<version>3.4.0.GA</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-commons-annotations</artifactId>
<version>3.3.0.ga</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
<version>3.4.0.GA</version>
</dependency>

as well as using Derby:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.derby</groupId>
<artifactId>derbyclient</artifactId>
<version>10.4.2.0</version>
</dependency>

I have also created a hibernate.cfg.xml file, containing the following properties:

<property name="connection.driver_class">org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver</property>
<property name="connection.url">jdbc:derby;safetyinformation;</property>
<property name="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.DerbyDialect</property>

My questions at the moment are:

What folder should i put the hibernate.cfg.xml file in? (I'm using eclipse, right now it is in the project root.)

I'm not sure if I can load the cfg file properly, since a simple test
try {
Configuration config = new Configuration();
} catch (Throwable ex) {
System.err.println("ex.toString());

}
yields "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/hibernate/cfg/Configuration"

Do I need to have the Derby db running seperatly in order to make this work?

Thanks in advance for any answers, i'll keeping hacking at it..

- Tobb