I'm trying to run the EntityTest annotation test case from the hibernate-annotations-3.0alpha2 distribution. I'm using hibernate-3.0beta3. I'm getting the following exception:

1) testLoad(org.hibernate.test.metadata.EntityTest)java.lang.IllegalAccessError: tried to access field org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.classes from class org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration
at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration.createExtendedMappings(AnnotationConfiguration.java:72)
at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration.addAnnotatedClass(AnnotationConfiguration.java:44)
at org.hibernate.test.metadata.TestCase.buildSessionFactory(TestCase.java:44)
at org.hibernate.test.metadata.TestCase.setUp(TestCase.java:57)
at org.hibernate.test.metadata.EntityTest.main(EntityTest.java:276)

Looking at the Configuration class source code (including the latest and greatest in CVS), I see that the classes Map is protected which obviously doesn't allow other classes in the package to access it.

What is needed to try out Hibernate Annotations?

Thanks,
Neil

Use hibernate 3.0beta2 or the latest CVS version of hibernate annotations