In following the recommended path to get around the problems described in the post "Hibernate Tools Ant error- Could not instantiate dialect" by bruce2, I have discovbered that the lates beta release of hibernate3.1 has a missing class HbmBinder$SecondPass, which will lead to a Class Not Found exception when upgrading from Hibernate3.0 to Hibernate3.1.

The workaround is to use hibernate3.1beta2.

The upgrade was to get around the problem:
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.hibernate.mapping.Table.createForeignKey(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/util/List;Lj
ava/lang/
String;Ljava/util/List;)Lorg/hibernate/mapping/ForeignKey;

The referenced message details a workaround for this as the Hibernate3.1 version. When I tried this I ran into the problem I describe and its workaround.

The question is why is this class missing from the latest beta release.[/b]

eh ?

when using the tools just use the hibernate that comes bundle with it - easy rule to get around all this stuff.

Bruce,

You are quite correct. This works like a charm!!!!.
Forgive my ignornace, however I was not aware that hibernate (.jar) was packaged with the tools distribution. I'm still finding my feet in all of this.
I won't bore everyone with how I got into this right royal mess in the first palce, but nevertheless it's been a good (and frustrating) learning excersise.

Thanks Again.
Omar.

Bruce,

You are quite correct. This works like a charm!!!!.
Forgive my ignornace, however I was not aware that hibernate (.jar) was packaged with the tools distribution. I'm still finding my feet in all of this.
I won't bore everyone with how I got into this right royal mess in the first palce, but nevertheless it's been a good (and frustrating) learning excersise.

Thanks Again.
Omar.