Sorry for that Question, but I'm absolute New to Hibernate.

After starting my Class I got the following error stack:
net.sf.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryObjectFactory addInstance
INFO: Not binding factory to JNDI, no JNDI name configured
Oct 17, 2004 7:01:58 PM net.sf.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl <init>
FINE: instantiated session factory
Oct 17, 2004 7:01:58 PM core.businessLogic.Main main
INFO: --- next: test.factory.openSession() ---
Exception
in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/transaction/Synchronization
at net.sf.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl.openSession(SessionFactoryImpl.java:313)
at net.sf.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl.openSession(SessionFactoryImpl.java:326)
at net.sf.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl.openSession(SessionFactoryImpl.java:334)
at core.businessLogic.Main.main(Main.java:61)

I can't find the class javax/transaction/Synchronization? Do I have a wrong SDK?

Regards Richard

You are missing a required third party library. Start here (or at least with the first chapter of the reference documentation): http://www.hibernate.org/152.html

I did a new start with hibernate 2.1.7 and it works after I installed J2EE and included j2ee.jar to the classpath.

Is it possible to run hibernate without this J2EE lib? I would like to use Java 5.

Regards Richard

you need jta.jar a normal jar library which doesn't require a full j2ee installation ;)

And it works fine with jdk 1.5

Thank you! Now, it's running fine :)

Regards Richard

Hi max & all

I had face this problem and used max's suggestion then my application is working fine.

Thanks & Regards,
K.Elanges.

I just found that IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.2 does not copy the jta.jar file when creating a new project that includes the Hibernate facet. All other required jars are present, though. Once I manually copy the jta.jar to my project's lib subdirectory the error goes away.

Since it cost me about an hour to resolve this, I thought I'd post it in case somebody else hits this particular wall.