<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN" "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd">

<beans>

<bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
   <property name="driverClassName" value="org.postgresql.Driver" />
   <property name="url" value="jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/xxx" />
   <property name="username" value="xxx" />
   <property name="password" value="iwtbxfm" />
</bean>

<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean">
        <property name="hibernateProperties">
            <props>
            <prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.query.substitutions">true 'T', false 'F'</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.format_sql">true</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.hibernate.generate_statistics">true</prop>

            <prop key="hibernate.cache.use_second_level_cache">false</prop>

            <prop key="hibernate.cache.provider_configuration_file_resource_path">classpath:/ehcache.xml</prop>
            </props>
        </property>
        <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
        <property name="configLocation" value="classpath:/hibernate.cfg.xml"/>
    </bean>

</beans>

<?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>

        <mapping class="com.xxx.model.Carrier"/>
    </session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

INFO: Initializing Spring root WebApplicationContext
9.1.2008 18:43:15 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart
SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'sessionFactory' defined in class path resource [applicationContext-resources.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is org.hibernate.MappingException: Unable to load class declared as <mapping class="com.xxx.model.Carrier"/> in the configuration:
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1362)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:540)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory$1.run(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:485)
   at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:455)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:251)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:169)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:248)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:170)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:407)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:735)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:369)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:251)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:190)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:45)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3830)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4337)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:525)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory(HostConfig.java:920)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectories(HostConfig.java:883)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:492)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.check(HostConfig.java:1206)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:293)
   at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:117)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.backgroundProcess(ContainerBase.java:1337)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1601)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1610)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.run(ContainerBase.java:1590)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: org.hibernate.MappingException: Unable to load class declared as <mapping class="com.freightservice.model.Carrier"/> in the configuration:
   at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration.parseMappingElement(AnnotationConfiguration.java:602)
   at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.parseSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1555)
   at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.doConfigure(Configuration.java:1534)
   at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.doConfigure(Configuration.java:1508)
   at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.configure(Configuration.java:1443)
   at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean.buildSessionFactory(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:572)
   at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.AbstractSessionFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(AbstractSessionFactoryBean.java:211)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1390)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1359)
   ... 30 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.freightservice.model.Carrier
   at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1358)
   at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1204)
   at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)
   at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
   at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source)
   at org.hibernate.util.ReflectHelper.classForName(ReflectHelper.java:100)
   at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration.parseMappingElement(AnnotationConfiguration.java:599)
   ... 38 more
9.1.2008 18:43:15 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: Closing Spring root WebApplicationContext

package com.xxx.model;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.Table;
import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.GenerationType;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.OneToMany;
import javax.persistence.CascadeType;
import javax.persistence.FetchType;
import javax.persistence.JoinColumn;

@Entity @Table(name="carrier")
@javax.persistence.SequenceGenerator(
    name="seq_carrier",
    sequenceName="s_carrier",
    allocationSize=1
)

public class Carrier extends BaseObject {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.SEQUENCE, generator="seq_carrier")
    private Long id;

    private String name = null;

    private String address = null;

    public Carrier() {}

    public Long getId() {
        return id;
    }

    public void setId(Long id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public String getAddress() {
        return address;
    }

    public void setAddress(String address){
        this.address = address;
    }

    public boolean equals(Object o) {
        if (this == o) {
            return true;
        }
        if (!(o instanceof Carrier)) {
            return false;
        }

        final Carrier carrier = (Carrier) o;

        return !(name != null ? !name.equals(carrier.getName()) : carrier.getName() != null);

    }

    public int hashCode() {
        return (name != null ? name.hashCode() : 0);
    }

    public String toString() {
        return null;
    }
}

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app id="WebApp_9" version="2.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">

    <display-name>xxx</display-name>

    <!-- Context Configuration locations for Spring XML files -->
    <context-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>
            classpath:/applicationContext.xml
            classpath:/applicationContext-resources.xml
            classpath:/applicationContext-dao.xml
            classpath:/applicationContext-service.xml
            classpath:/applicationContext-business.xml
            classpath:/applicationContext-acegi.xml
        </param-value>
    </context-param>

    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>xxx</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
            <param-value>
                classpath:/webApplicationContext.xml
            </param-value>
        </init-param>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>xxx</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>*.action</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

    <filter>
        <filter-name>Acegi Filter Chain Proxy</filter-name>
        <filter-class>org.acegisecurity.util.FilterToBeanProxy</filter-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>targetClass</param-name>
            <param-value>org.acegisecurity.util.FilterChainProxy</param-value>
        </init-param>
    </filter>

    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>Acegi Filter Chain Proxy</filter-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </filter-mapping>

    <listener>
        <listener-class>
            org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
        </listener-class>
    </listener>

    <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
    </welcome-file-list>

</web-app>

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.freightservice.model.Carrier