i am using hibernate2 deployed on Unix machine it fails with following exception i ma using oracle 8i database and jdk 1.4.2_01
java -classpath lib/hibernate2.jar;lib/ntcloader.jar;lib/jta.jar;lib
/ehcache-0.7.jar;lib/oscache-2.0.jar;lib/c3p0-0.8.3.jar;lib/cglib-2.0-rc2.jar;lib/commons-collections-2.1.jar;lib/commons-lang-1.0.1.jar;lib/commons-logging-1.0.3.jar;lib/concurrent-1.3.2.jar;lib/dom4j-1.4.jar;lib/j2ee.jar;lib/jakarta-regexp-1.2.jar;lib/jdbc2_0-stdext.jar;lib/junit.jar;lib/log4j-1.2.8.jar;lib/odmg-3.0.
jar;lib/ojdbc14.jar;lib/tools.jar com/verigate/vcs/ntc/NTCLoader
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Environm
ent).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
Aug 21, 2004 12:09:34 PM com.verigate.vcs.ntc.DBHandler loadConf
SEVERE: could not instantiate id generator
I am here
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.verigate.vcs.ntc.DBHandler.isFileExisted(DBHandler.java:380)
at com.verigate.vcs.ntc.FileIO.processImport(FileIO.java:331)
at com.verigate.vcs.ntc.NTCLoader.main(NTCLoader.java:22)

the same code works fine when run in eclipse environment in windows
what other librarys i am missing please help

are you sure the problem comes from hibernate?

yes since it fails at fails to instantiate id generator

the same code works in eclipse environment and even on command line the same exception is thrown

log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
Aug 23, 2004 9:33:08 AM com.verisign.vcs.ntc.DBHandler loadConf
SEVERE: could not instantiate id generator
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.verisign.vcs.ntc.DBHandler.isFileExisted(DBHandler.java:379)
at com.verisign.vcs.ntc.FileIO.processImport(FileIO.java:331)
at com.verisign.vcs.ntc.NTCLoader.main(NTCLoader.java:22)