Getting this error.
Code:
10-Aug-2011 13:59:26 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve invoke
SEVERE: Allocate exception for servlet Controller
java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: INSTANCE
at org.hibernate.type.BasicTypeRegistry.<init>(BasicTypeRegistry.java:94)
at org.hibernate.type.TypeResolver.<init>(TypeResolver.java:59)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.<init>(Configuration.java:250)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.<init>(Configuration.java:302)
at shared.HibernateHelper.initSessionFactory(HibernateHelper.java:48)
at ch4.enhanced.ControllerHelper.initHibernate(ControllerHelper.java:86)
at ch4.enhanced.Controller.init(Controller.java:22)
at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:160)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.initServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1189)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1103)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.allocate(StandardWrapper.java:813)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:135)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:164)
at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:498)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:164)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:100)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:562)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:394)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:243)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:188)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:166)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:302)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Done some googling and found this error is usually caused by a conflict between jars in the classpath from different versions of hibernate. I've checked this and all my jars are correct. I'm using hibernate 3.6.6 and validator 4.2.0. I am wroking in netBeans 7 but I don't know if this is an issue.