hi
I am using annotations with hibernate 3.When i try to run i get the following error.The stack trace is:

Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'sessionFactory' defined in file [E:\V11\AnnotationsInV11\src\application.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is org.hibernate.AnnotationException: Annotated class should have an @Entity annotation: MyObjectImpl
org.hibernate.AnnotationException: Annotated class should have an @Entity annotation: MyObjectImpl
at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationBinder.bindClass(AnnotationBinder.java:210)
at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration.addAnnotatedClass(AnnotationConfiguration.java:44)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalAnnotationSessionFactoryBean.postProcessConfiguration(LocalAnnotationSessionFactoryBean.java:89)


Following is my Source Code:

@Inheritance(strategy = InheritanceType.TABLE_PER_CLASS)
@Table(name = "MY_OBJECT_TABLE")
@Entity
public class MyObjectImpl
implements Serializable {

private
long id;
private
String foo;
private
String trans;

@Id(generate=GeneratorType.IDENTITY)
@Column(name = "ID")
public long getId() {
return id;
}

public void setId(long id) {
this.id = id;
}

@Column(name = "FOO", nullable = false, updatable = true, length = 50)
public String getFoo() {
return foo;
}

public void setFoo(String foo) {
this.foo = foo;
}

// This indicates that this bean property is not persistent (aka transient)
@Transient
public String getTrans() {
return trans;
}

public void setTrans(String trans) {
this.trans = trans;
}

public static void main(String[] args) {

ApplicationContext ac=new FileSystemXmlApplicationContext("src\\application.xml");
SessionFactory sessionFactory = (SessionFactory)ac.getBean("sessionFactory");
Session s = sessionFactory.openSession();

MyObjectImpl o = new MyObjectImpl();
o.setFoo("bar");

s.save(o);
s.flush();

s.close();

}
}

Try closing the entity annotation... e.g. @Entity()

Hum, weird. 3 solutions:
- you use a very old JDK 5.0
- you're using the wrong class
- I'm insane reviewing my code.

Try to set @Entity before any other annotations.

I ran into something similar.

In my case, it turned out that because my imports looked like this:

import org.hibernate.annotations.Entity;
import javax.ejb.*;

The @Entity i used wasn't the right one.

So try using fully qualified names:

@org.hibernate.annotations.Entity()
@javax.ejb.Entity()

good luck :-)