I am using the Eclipse plugin and having trouble with the plugin loading the dialect class from hibernate3.jar. Do I need to do anything special to include hibernate3.jar in my classpath so that the plugin finds the classes it needs? I have hibernate3.jar in the build path for my application.

I am getting the exception when I attempt to reverse engineer my database using the Hibernate Artifact Generation wizard.

!SUBENTRY 2 org.hibernate.eclipse.console.HibernateConsolePlugin 4 150 2005-04-12 16:38:31.844
!MESSAGE Dialect class not found: net.sf.hibernate.dialect.SQLServerDialect
!STACK 0
org.hibernate.HibernateException: Dialect class not found: net.sf.hibernate.dialect.SQLServerDialect
at org.hibernate.dialect.Dialect.getDialect(Dialect.java:503)
at org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory.buildSettings(SettingsFactory.java:51)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSettings(Configuration.java:1508)
at org.hibernate.cfg.JDBCMetaDataConfiguration.readFromJDBC(JDBCMetaDataConfiguration.java:36)
at org.hibernate.eclipse.console.wizards.ArtifactGeneratorWizard$3.execute(ArtifactGeneratorWizard.java:213)
at org.hibernate.console.ConsoleConfiguration.execute(ConsoleConfiguration.java:77)
at org.hibernate.eclipse.console.wizards.ArtifactGeneratorWizard.buildConfiguration(ArtifactGeneratorWizard.java:210)
at org.hibernate.eclipse.console.wizards.ArtifactGeneratorWizard.doFinish(ArtifactGeneratorWizard.java:147)
at org.hibernate.eclipse.console.wizards.ArtifactGeneratorWizard.access$0(ArtifactGeneratorWizard.java:127)
at org.hibernate.eclipse.console.wizards.ArtifactGeneratorWizard$1.run(ArtifactGeneratorWizard.java:95)
at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext$ModalContextThread.run(ModalContext.java:113)

The base package has been changed in Hibernate 3.0 so its no longer net.sf.hibernate its org.hibernate . Change your dialect reference appropriately.

yes that was the problem. thanks!