I am new to hibernate. I am using hibernate3. when I run my java desktop application the following error appears.

19:07:34,656 ERROR HibernateUtil:28 - Initial SessionFactory creation failed.
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.doConfigure(Configuration.java:1214)
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class jp.ac.nagaokaut.gii.lim.engine.util.HibernateUtil
at jp.ac.nagaokaut.gii.lim.engine.service.LIService.teachSourceDatabase(LIService.java:72)
....more

Please help me.

Thank you

Looks like this is as simple as a jar file that's missing. Is it working in development? Which package is this jar file in, and is it on the classpath of the classloader that is looking for it?