Greetings,

I'm developing an application using hibernate with annotations, but when I load the application's context, I got the following error:

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'sessionFactory' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext-dao.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/persistence/InheritanceJoinColumns
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/persistence/InheritanceJoinColumns
at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationBinder.bindClass(AnnotationBinder.java:324)
at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration.secondPassCompile(AnnotationConfiguration.java:177)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:999)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean.newSessionFactory(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:777)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:703)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1058)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:363)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:226)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:147)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:269)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:318)
at org.springframework.web.context.support.AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.java:134)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:230)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:156)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:48)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3764)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4216)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1014)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:736)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1014)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:448)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:700)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:552)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:295)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:433)


I've already looked in some forums about this class, and what I found is that it was supposed to be in ejb3-persistence.jar that come with the hibernate-annotations-3.3.0.GA distribution, but its not there.
Somebody know if I really need this class and where I can find it?

Thanks

I figured out the problem. I was using an older version of Spring, it seems to be incompatible with the latest version of Hibernate. Getting the Spring 2.0 worked fine =)