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Hibernate version:3.0.5

Mapping documents:
Simple

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I am getting a Nullpointer exception when calling the 'Configuration.configure(File)

Method.

INFO: configuring from file: Numbers.hbm.xml
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.doConfigure(Configuration.java:1214)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.doConfigure(Configuration.java:1184)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.configure(Configuration.java:1146)
at com.numbers.data.NumbersHBMMain.main(Unknown Source)


Here is the code from hibernate Configuration.java

protected Configuration doConfigure(org.dom4j.Document doc) throws HibernateException {

Element sfNode = doc.getRootElement().element( "session-factory" );
String name = sfNode.attributeValue( "name" );
if ( name != null ) properties.setProperty( Environment.SESSION_FACTORY_NAME, name );
addProperties( sfNode );
parseSessionFactory( s


I dont understand why there isnt a a check on 'sfnode' in the code, that is probably where the error is?

This is my bug submit:

if (sfNode != null) {

Also, how would I get past this error.

Can you post the contents of Numbers.hbm.xml ?

Dennis, that would have been an easy to earn credit :) He is trying to feed a mapping file into Hibernate's configuration file method. That obviously doesn't work.

Ah, but not if Numbers.hbm.xml is where <hibernate-configuration> is :->