I have a standalone java app that I am running from inside of Intellij Idea.

I do NOT want Hibernate to bind itself to any JNDI tree. According to the docs:

"If you wish to have the SessionFactory bound to a JNDI namespace, specify a name (eg. java:comp/env/hibernate/SessionFactory) using the property hibernate.session_factory_name. If this property is omitted, the SessionFactory will not be bound to JNDI."

I have not included the above config property. Here is my hibernate.cfg.xml (with sensitive info removed):

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 2.0//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-2.0.dtd">

<hibernate-configuration>

<session-factory name="comp:env:hibernate:SessionFactory">

<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.username"></property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.password"></property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:oracle:thin:@....</property>

<property name="dialect">net.sf.hibernate.dialect.Oracle9Dialect</property>
<property name="hibernate.show_sql">false</property>
<property name="hibernate.use_outer_join">true</property>
<property name="hibernate.max_fetch_depth">3</property>
<property name="hibernate.transaction.factory_class">net.sf.hibernate.transaction.JDBCTransactionFactory</property>
<property name="hibernate.cglib.use_reflection_optimizer">false</property>
<property name="hibernate.jdbc.batch_size">0</property>

</session-factory>

</hibernate-configuration>

But whenever I run my app and execute this code:

new Configuration().configure().buildSessionFactory();

I get the following exception:

16:13:50,517 WARN [SessionFactoryObjectFactory] Could not bind factory to JNDI
javax.naming.CommunicationException: Can't find SerialContextProvider
at com.sun.enterprise.naming.SerialContext.getProvider(SerialContext.java:63)
at com.sun.enterprise.naming.SerialContext.rebind(SerialContext.java:188)
at com.sun.enterprise.naming.SerialContext.rebind(SerialContext.java:202)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.rebind(InitialContext.java:367)
at net.sf.hibernate.util.NamingHelper.bind(NamingHelper.java:74)
at net.sf.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryObjectFactory.addInstance(SessionFactoryObjectFactory.java:90)
at net.sf.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl.<init>(SessionFactoryImpl.java:171)
at net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:791)
.........


The thing is, after I get this error, my hibernate code works fine. I need to get rid of the error and I think the way to do that is to figure out how to get hibernate NOT to try to bind itself to JNDI. Can anyone shed any light on this?

Thanks.
-peter

Hibernate version: 2.1.6

I think you need to remove the name attribute from:



It should just be:

That solved my problem.

Many thanks!
-peter