Hi,

I am new to Hibernate. I am getting basic error. I am trying to create hbm2ddl. I got this error.

Plz help me out.

C:\sample\coolstatedb>ant hbm2ddl
Buildfile: build.xml

init:

build:

hbm2ddl:
[hibernatetool] Executing Hibernate Tool with a Standard Configuration
[hibernatetool] 1. task: hbm2ddl (Generates database schema)
[hibernatetool] log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.hibernate
.cfg.Environment).
[hibernatetool] log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
[hibernatetool] An exception occurred while running exporter #2:hbm2ddl (Generat
es database schema)
[hibernatetool] To get the full stack trace run ant with -verbose
[hibernatetool] org.hibernate.HibernateException: Could not parse configuration:
C:\sample\coolstatedb\classes\hibernate.cfg.xml
[hibernatetool] org.dom4j.DocumentException: Error on line 29 of document : The
content of elements must consist of well-formed character data or markup. Neste
d exception: The content of elements must consist of well-formed character data
or markup.

BUILD FAILED
C:\sample\coolstatedb\build.xml:70: org.hibernate.HibernateException: Could not
parse configuration: C:\sample\coolstatedb\classes\hibernate.cfg.xml

Total time: 3 seconds

Well just check your cfg.xml - there must something the xml parser doesn't like, i.e. diacritical characters inside a comment.

Check the XML header. Sometimes if that's not valid, the parsing will fail.

Use a sample file from the Hibernate core download to start with, and edit that to your tastes. Sometimes a very small quote that is missing will mess things up.