Hi All,
I am very new with Hibernate.Here i am trying to excute some example of hibernate 3.0 version ON Eclipse IDE with java 1.4.8 n databse is Microsoft SQLServer.

I am getting error like "JDBC Driver class not found: com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver"


here is the hibernate.cfg.xml file:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">

<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory>
<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://localhost/hibernatetutorial</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.username">sa</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.password">sa</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.pool_size">10</property>
<property name="show_sql">true</property>
<property name="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.SQLServerDialect</property>
<property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">update</property>
<!-- Mapping files -->
<mapping resource="contact.hbm.xml"/>
</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>
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N i copied all database jar files into the lib directory of the project like msbase.jar,mssqlserver.jar,msutil.jar....................I am not getting where is the mistake.

So could anybody help me on this.i will appreciate ur response.........

Warm Regards,
simmi

Is the lib directory where the jars are located in the project build path?

Hi,
YES all jar files r placed in the lib Directory........
This is the path where all jar files r placed

C:\HibernateExample\hibernate\lib

Thnx

OK. Is that directory in the build path for the project?

project properties -> Java Build Path -> Libraries tab

Is the driver jars listed there.

Hi ,

Thank u very much for ur help.Actually i put them phisically in lib directiry.
But they were not appear in JavaBuidPath.But now i put them in JavaBuildPath.Now it is working good.......Thx alot