Could not locate SessionFactory in JNDI

danywu · **Joined:** Wed Sep 20, 2006 10:15 pm **Posts:** 12

Hi folks,

I noticed this question has been asked a couple of times, at least once in the Tools forum. Unfortunately none seems to fix my problem.

I am new to the whole Hibernate/Eclipse thing and decided to give it a try with Hibernate Tools. It's generated everything and I was trying to do a simple test by persisting a single object in the main() method:

Code:

Dog dog = new Dog();
dog.setName("Bob");
DogHome dogHome = new DogHome();
dogHome.persist(dog);

Unfortunately it failed in DogHome.getSessionFactory() method, on the line that says

Code:

return (SessionFactory) new InitialContext().lookup("SessionFactory");

I'm relying on the tools too much at the moment to realise what is exactly going on under the bonnet (or hood...). Any suggestions or even pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Dany.

danywu · **Joined:** Wed Sep 20, 2006 10:15 pm **Posts:** 12

Please excuse replying to my own topic. I just noticed straight after the "Could not locate..." error message I got a NoInitialContextException.

Here's my sanitised hbm.xml file.

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
      "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN"
      "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-configuration>
    <session-factory>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver</property>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.password"></property>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost/bernerline</property>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.username">root</property>
        <property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect</property>
    </session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Can't wait to start coding the app :o)

Thanks again,
Dany.

CWitherow · **Posted:** Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:23 am

Do you have a JNDI provider running? I can't tell from your post.

You can set the name of the session factory by including/modifying the hibernate.session_factory_name property.
I.E. (in hibernate.properties)

Code:

hibernate.session_factory_name=MySessionFactory

OR (in .cfg.xml)

Code:

<property name="hibernate.session_factory_name">MySessionFactory</property>

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