Hi
I am new to hibernate. My application works fine with internetconnection but it gives me the following error without a net connection. The error thrown is

Failed to create sessionFactory object. org.hibernate.HibernateException: Could not parse configuration: /hibernate.cfg.xml
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at ManageEmployee.main(ManageEmployee.java:16)
Caused by: org.hibernate.HibernateException: Could not parse configuration: /hibernate.cfg.xml
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.doConfigure(Configuration.java:1542)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.configure(Configuration.java:1476)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.configure(Configuration.java:1462)
at ManageEmployee.main(ManageEmployee.java:13)
Caused by: org.dom4j.DocumentException: www.hibernate.sourceforge.net Nested exception: www.hibernate.sourceforge.net
at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:484)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.doConfigure(Configuration.java:1532)
... 3 more




My hibernate.cfg.xml file is as given below


<?xml version='1.0'?>

<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://www.hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">

<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory>
<property name="hibernate.dialect">
org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect
</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">
com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
</property>

<!-- Assume test is the database name -->
<property name="hibernate.connection.url">
jdbc:mysql://localhost/test
</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.username">
root
</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.password">
*****
</property>

<!-- List of XML mapping files -->
<mapping resource="Employee.hbm.xml"/>

</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>


Any suggestions welcome.

Thanks In Advance

It sounds like your application is trying to access the hibernate DTD that is referenced by the hibernate.cfg.xml file:

http://www.hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd

Have you tried seeing if you can reference a local DTD instead? I found this forum post that looks like would resolve your issue: https://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?t=943281

Sarah