I am having a strange problem and all the common solutions don't seem to work. I am trying to run the runStore task from the ant build below, and getting an error:
WARNING: Could not bind factory to JNDI
javax.naming.NoInitialContextException:

The full stack is below.

I am running netbeans 6.5, with an embedded tomcat 5.5. I am not trying to use JNDI, just the default connection pool. I have setup hibernate many times and never come across this error.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

Hibernate: 3.3.1

Mapping documents:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN" "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-mapping>
<class dynamic-insert="false" dynamic-update="false" mutable="true" name="com.bbs.beans.User" optimistic-lock="version" polymorphism="implicit" select-before-update="false" table="bbs_user">
<id column="user_number" name="userNumber">
<generator class="native"/>
</id>
<property column="user_name" name="userName"/>
<property column="first_name" name="firstName"/>
<property column="last_name" name="lastName"/>
<property column="middle_initial" name="middleInitial"/>
<!-- <property column="user_rank" name="userRank"/> -->
<!-- <property column="user_store_number" name="storeNumber"/> -->
<!-- <property column="heart_count" name="heartCount"/> -->
<!-- <property column="date_of_birth" name="dateOfBirth" type="timestamp"/> -->
<!-- <property column="user_rank_number" name="rankNumber"/> -->
<!-- <property column="contact_info_number" name="contactInfoNumber"/> -->
<!-- <property column="token_count" name="tokenCount"/> -->
</class>
</hibernate-mapping>



Code between sessionFactory.openSession() and session.close():
public class HibernateUtil {

private static final SessionFactory sessionFactory;

static {
try {
// Create the SessionFactory from hibernate.cfg.xml
sessionFactory = new Configuration().configure().buildSessionFactory();
} catch (Throwable ex) {
// Make sure you log the exception, as it might be swallowed
System.err.println("Initial SessionFactory creation failed." + ex);
throw new ExceptionInInitializerError(ex);
}
}

public static SessionFactory getSessionFactory() {
return sessionFactory;
}
}


Full stack trace:
WARNING: Could not bind factory to JNDI
javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Need to specify class name in environment or system property, or as an applet parameter, or in an application resource file: java.naming.factory.initial
at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(NamingManager.java:645)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:288)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.getURLOrDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:325)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.getNameParser(InitialContext.java:480)
at org.hibernate.util.NamingHelper.bind(NamingHelper.java:52)
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryObjectFactory.addInstance(SessionFactoryObjectFactory.java:90)
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl.<init>(SessionFactoryImpl.java:306)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1294)
at com.b
at com.bbs.util.HibernateUtil.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
at com.bbs.database.DatabaseBuilder.createAndStoreUser(Unknown Source)
at com.bbs.database.DatabaseBuilder.main(Unknown Source)
Jan 17, 2009 7:58:21 PM org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExport execute
INFO: Running hbm2ddl schema export
Jan 17, 2009 7:58:21 PM org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExport execute
INFO: exporting generated schema to database
Jan 17, 2009 7:58:22 PM org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExport execute
INFO: schema export complete
Hibernate: insert into bbs_user (user_name, first_name, last_name, middle_initial) values (?, ?, ?, ?)
Jan 17, 2009 7:58:22 PM org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl close
INFO: closing
Jan 17, 2009 7:58:22 PM org.hibernate.connection.DriverManagerConnectionProvider close
INFO: cleaning up connection pool: jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/bbs
Jan 17, 2009 7:58:22 PM org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryObjectFactory removeInstance
INFO: Unbinding factory from JNDI name: bbs
Jan 17, 2009 7:58:22 PM org.hibernate.util.NamingHelper getInitialContext
INFO: JNDI InitialContext properties:{}
Jan 17, 2009 7:58:22 PM org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryObjectFactory removeInstance
WARNING: Could not unbind factory from JNDI
javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Need to specify class name in environment or system property, or as an applet parameter, or in an application resource file: java.naming.factory.initial
at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(NamingManager.java:645)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:288)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.getURLOrDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:325)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.unbind(InitialContext.java:416)
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryObjectFactory.removeInstance(SessionFactoryObjectFactory.java:116)
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl.close(SessionFactoryImpl.java:806)
at com.bbs.database.DatabaseBuilder.main(Unknown Source)
BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 7 seconds)



Name and version of the database you are using:
MySql 5.1.7


The generated SQL (show_sql=true):
INFO: Running hbm2ddl schema export
Jan 17, 2009 7:58:21 PM org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExport execute
INFO: exporting generated schema to database
Jan 17, 2009 7:58:22 PM org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExport execute
INFO: schema export complete
Hibernate: insert into bbs_user (user_name, first_name, last_name, middle_initial) values (?, ?, ?, ?)
Jan 17, 2009 7:58:22 PM org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl close
INFO: closing



Ant Script:
<project name="hibernate-tutorial" default="compile">

<property name="sourcedir" value="${basedir}/src"/>
<property name="targetdir" value="${basedir}/bin"/>
<property name="librarydir" value="${basedir}/lib"/>

<path id="libraries">
<fileset dir="${librarydir}">
<include name="*.jar"/>
</fileset>
</path>

<target name="clean">
<delete dir="${targetdir}"/>
<mkdir dir="${targetdir}"/>
</target>

<target name="compile" depends="clean, copy-resources">
<javac srcdir="${sourcedir}" destdir="${targetdir}" classpathref="libraries"/>
</target>

<target name="copy-resources">
<copy todir="${targetdir}">
<fileset dir="${sourcedir}">
<exclude name="**/*.java"/>
</fileset>
</copy>
</target>

<target name="run" depends="compile">
<java fork="true" classname="com.bbs.database.DatabaseBuilder" classpathref="libraries">
<classpath path="${targetdir}"/>
<arg value="${action}"/>
</java>
</target>

<target name="runStore" depends="compile">
<java fork="true" classname="com.bbs.database.DatabaseBuilder" classpathref="libraries">
<classpath path="${targetdir}"/>
<arg value="store"/>
</java>
</target>

<target name="runList" depends="compile">
<java fork="true" classname="com.bbs.database.DatabaseBuilder" classpathref="libraries">
<classpath path="${targetdir}"/>
<arg value="list"/>
</java>
</target>

</project>



User Bean:
/*
* To change this template, choose Tools | Templates
* and open the template in the editor.
*/
package com.bbs.beans;

//import java.util.GregorianCalendar;

/**
*
* @author scott
*/
public class User {

private Long userNumber;
private String userName;
private String firstName;
private String lastName;
private String middleInitial;

/**
* @return the userName
*/
public String getUserName() {
return userName;
}

/**
* @param userName the userName to set
*/
public void setUserName(String userName) {
this.userName = userName;
}

/**
* @return the firstName
*/
public String getFirstName() {
return firstName;
}

/**
* @param firstName the firstName to set
*/
public void setFirstName(String firstName) {
this.firstName = firstName;
}

/**
* @return the lastName
*/
public String getLastName() {
return lastName;
}

/**
* @param lastName the lastName to set
*/
public void setLastName(String lastName) {
this.lastName = lastName;
}

/**
* @return the middleInitial
*/
public String getMiddleInitial() {
return middleInitial;
}

/**
* @param middleInitial the middleInitial to set
*/
public void setMiddleInitial(String middleInitial) {
this.middleInitial = middleInitial;
}

/**
* @return the userNumber
*/
public Long getUserNumber() {
return userNumber;
}

/**
* @param userNumber the userNumber to set
*/
public void setUserNumber(Long userNumber) {
this.userNumber = userNumber;
}

}




Hibernate Config:
<?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 name="bbs">
<property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect
</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.url">
jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/bbs</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.username">user1</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.password">tbd34</property>
<!-- JDBC connection pool (use the built-in) -->
<property name="connection.pool_size">1</property>
<!-- Enable Hibernate's automatic session context management-->
<property name="current_session_context_class">thread</property>
<!-- Disable the second-level cache -->
<property name="cache.provider_class">
org.hibernate.cache.NoCacheProvider</property>
<!-- Echo all executed SQL to stdout -->
<property name="show_sql">true</property>
<!-- Drop and re-create the database schema on startup -->
<property name="hbm2ddl.auto">create</property>
<mapping resource="com/bbs/beans/User.hbm.xml"/>
</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>