Hibernate version:
2.1
Mapping documents:

Code between sessionFactory.openSession() and session.close():
Transaction tx = null;

// An element
Element elem = new Element();
elem.setAge( 30 );
elem.setDescription( "Some long winded description" );
elem.setName( "Element1Name" );
Element elem2 = new Element();
elem2.setAge( 15 );
elem2.setDescription( "Some more long winded description2" );
elem2.setName( "Element2Name" );

// Make a list of elements;
ArrayList elements = new ArrayList();
elements.add( elem );
elements.add( elem2 );

// Make a component
Component comp = new Component();
// Assign the elements
comp.setElements( elements );

// Create a list of components
ArrayList components = new ArrayList();
components.add( comp );

// Make a list view

ListView listView = new ListView();
listView.setColor( "Red" + new Date() );
listView.setViewtitle( "Subclass (List) View Title" + new Date() );
listView.setComponents( components );


/**************************************************8
* Experimentation goes here.
*/
Template testTemplate = new Template();
testTemplate.setTitle( "Test B" );
testTemplate.setViews( views );
try
{
tx = sess.beginTransaction();
sess.saveOrUpdateCopy( testTemplate, new Long( 2 ) );
tx.commit();
} catch ( HibernateException e2 )
{
if ( tx != null ) tx.rollback();
throw e2;
}

Full stack trace of any exception that occurs:
Sep 17, 2004 12:38:36 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Environment <clinit>
INFO: Hibernate 2.1.4
Sep 17, 2004 12:38:36 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Environment <clinit>
INFO: hibernate.properties not found
Sep 17, 2004 12:38:36 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Environment <clinit>
INFO: using CGLIB reflection optimizer
Sep 17, 2004 12:38:36 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Configuration addClass
INFO: Mapping resource: com/cibenix/test/hibernate/persist/View.hbm.xml
Sep 17, 2004 12:38:36 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Binder bindRootClass
INFO: Mapping class: com.cibenix.test.hibernate.persist.View -> View
Sep 17, 2004 12:38:36 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Binder bindCollection
INFO: Mapping collection: com.cibenix.test.hibernate.persist.View.components -> components_in_view
Sep 17, 2004 12:38:37 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Binder bindJoinedSubclass
INFO: Mapping joined-subclass: com.cibenix.test.hibernate.persist.ListView -> ListView
Sep 17, 2004 12:38:37 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Binder bindJoinedSubclass
INFO: Mapping joined-subclass: com.cibenix.test.hibernate.persist.PopUpListView -> PopUpListView
Sep 17, 2004 12:38:37 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Configuration addClass
INFO: Mapping resource: com/cibenix/test/hibernate/persist/Component.hbm.xml
Sep 17, 2004 12:38:37 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Binder bindRootClass
INFO: Mapping class: com.cibenix.test.hibernate.persist.Component -> Component
Sep 17, 2004 12:38:37 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Binder bindCollection
INFO: Mapping collection: com.cibenix.test.hibernate.persist.Component.elements -> elements_in_component
Sep 17, 2004 12:38:37 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Configuration addClass
INFO: Mapping resource: com/cibenix/test/hibernate/persist/Element.hbm.xml
Sep 17, 2004 12:38:37 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Binder bindRootClass
INFO: Mapping class: com.cibenix.test.hibernate.persist.Element -> Element
Sep 17, 2004 12:38:37 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Configuration addClass
INFO: Mapping resource: com/cibenix/test/hibernate/persist/Template.hbm.xml
Sep 17, 2004 12:38:37 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Binder bindRootClass
INFO: Mapping class: com.cibenix.test.hibernate.persist.Template -> Template
Sep 17, 2004 12:38:39 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Configuration secondPassCompile
INFO: processing one-to-many association mappings
Sep 17, 2004 12:38:39 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Binder bindCollectionSecondPass
INFO: Mapping collection: com.cibenix.test.hibernate.persist.Template.views -> View
Sep 17, 2004 12:38:39 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Configuration secondPassCompile
INFO: processing one-to-one association property references
Sep 17, 2004 12:38:39 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Configuration secondPassCompile
INFO: processing foreign key constraints
Sep 17, 2004 12:38:39 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory buildSettings
WARNING: No dialect set - using GenericDialect: The dialect was not set. Set the property hibernate.dialect.
Sep 17, 2004 12:38:39 PM net.sf.hibernate.dialect.Dialect <init>
INFO: Using dialect: net.sf.hibernate.dialect.GenericDialect
Sep 17, 2004 12:38:39 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory buildSettings
INFO: Use outer join fetching: false
Sep 17, 2004 12:38:40 PM net.sf.hibernate.connection.UserSuppliedConnectionProvider configure
WARNING: No connection properties specified - the user must supply JDBC connections
Sep 17, 2004 12:38:40 PM net.sf.hibernate.transaction.TransactionManagerLookupFactory getTransactionManagerLookup
INFO: No TransactionManagerLookup configured (in JTA environment, use of process level read-write cache is not recommended)
Sep 17, 2004 12:38:40 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory buildSettings
INFO: Use scrollable result sets: false
Sep 17, 2004 12:38:40 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory buildSettings
INFO: Use JDBC3 getGeneratedKeys(): false
Sep 17, 2004 12:38:40 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory buildSettings
INFO: Optimize cache for minimal puts: false
Sep 17, 2004 12:38:40 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory buildSettings
INFO: Query language substitutions: {}
Sep 17, 2004 12:38:40 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory buildSettings
INFO: cache provider: net.sf.ehcache.hibernate.Provider
Sep 17, 2004 12:38:40 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Configuration configureCaches
INFO: instantiating and configuring caches
Sep 17, 2004 12:38:40 PM net.sf.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl <init>
INFO: building session factory
Sep 17, 2004 12:38:41 PM net.sf.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryObjectFactory addInstance
INFO: no JNDI name configured
java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: The user must supply a JDBC connection
at net.sf.hibernate.connection.UserSuppliedConnectionProvider.getConnection(UserSuppliedConnectionProvider.java:32)
at net.sf.hibernate.impl.BatcherImpl.openConnection(BatcherImpl.java:278)
at net.sf.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.connect(SessionImpl.java:3302)
at net.sf.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.connection(SessionImpl.java:3282)
at net.sf.hibernate.transaction.JDBCTransaction.begin(JDBCTransaction.java:40)
at net.sf.hibernate.transaction.JDBCTransactionFactory.beginTransaction(JDBCTransactionFactory.java:19)
at net.sf.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.beginTransaction(SessionImpl.java:2227)
at com.cibenix.test.hibernate.example.Example.<init>(Example.java:124)
at com.cibenix.test.hibernate.example.Example.main(Example.java:27)

Name and version of the database you are using:
Using Oracle 9i Version 2
The generated SQL (show_sql=true):

Debug level Hibernate log excerpt:



So has anyone got any ideas as to the problem... am it has got to do with the hibernate.xml file not being found so does where do i put it? I am trying to run hibernate in a simple standalone application with no servers or anything like that

thanks in advance guys