Hi,
I was wondering if there is a HibernateUtil class available for Hibernate 3 like there was one for Hibernate 2. I've just changed the import statements to point to new classes in the Util class but not sure yet if that'd work.

Any pointers?

thx.

Replacing the imports should be enough, although you don't need to catch and wrap exceptions anymore - H3 throws RuntimeExceptions.

thx chris,
I did it and now I see this exception:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/sf/ehcache/CacheException
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Class.java:2328)
at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Class.java:2640)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:321)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:303)
at org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory.createCacheProvider(SettingsFactory.java:262)
at org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory.buildSettings(SettingsFactory.java:184)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSettings(Configuration.java:1505)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1053)
at com.xxx.util.HibernateUtil.<clinit>(HibernateUtil.java:34)

The code thats throwing this exception:
static {
//try {
configuration = new Configuration();
sessionFactory = configuration.configure().buildSessionFactory();
// We could also let Hibernate bind it to JNDI:
// configuration.configure().buildSessionFactory()
//} catch (Throwable ex) {
// We have to catch Throwable, otherwise we will miss
// NoClassDefFoundError and other subclasses of Error
//log.error("Building SessionFactory failed.", ex);
//throw new ExceptionInInitializerError(ex);
//}
}

Why is it still looking for old packages?

thanks

Chris,

The net.sf.ehcache.CacheException class is not part of Hibernate 3. It is part of EHCache. Therefore it's package naming didn't change and it's not in the hibernate3.jar, it's in the ehcache-1.1.jar. Check the list of dependencies and make sure you have them all in your classpath.

Change your cache provider from to