I am new to the tools and hibernate 3. I am using eclipse 3.1. I used the tools to generate my code and config files I created a class with a main to test the generated files and classes. the class is follows:

public class Test {

/**
* @param args
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
ClientHome chome = new ClientHome();
Client c = chome.findById("1234");
System.out.println(c.getClientname());

}

}

The following exception is thrown:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not locate SessionFactory in JNDI
at com.wasc.swifttest.home.ClientHome.getSessionFactory(ClientHome.java:30)
at com.wasc.swifttest.home.ClientHome.<init>(ClientHome.java:22)
at Test.main(Test.java:10)

I want to test it standalone firts and then use it in a web app.
What caused this and how can it be resolved?

In you hibernate.cfg.xml file, you might have a name attribute for the
session-factory element. remove the name attribute.

I do not have name attribute on the sessionfactory. The xml is listed below. Is it possible to set up a JNDI for it to use?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory>
<property name="hibernate.cglib.use_reflection_optimizer">true</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.password">123456</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost/swiftcambio</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.username">root</property>
<property name="hibernate.default_schema">swiftcambio</property>
<property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</property>
<mapping resource="com/wasc/swiftcambio/Client.hbm.xml" />
<mapping resource="com/wasc/swiftcambio/ClientStatus.hbm.xml" />
<mapping resource="com/wasc/swiftcambio/ClientIdtype.hbm.xml" />
<mapping resource="com/wasc/swiftcambio/ClientCategory.hbm.xml" />
</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

Can you post the ClientHome.java source code?

package com.wasc.swiftcambio.home;


import java.util.*;
import org.apache.commons.logging.*;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
import org.hibernate.*;

import com.wasc.swiftcambio.Client;

import static org.hibernate.criterion.Example.*;

/**
* Home object for domain model class Client.
* @see com.wasc.swiftcambio.Client
* @author Hibernate Tools
*/
public class ClientHome {

private static final Log log = LogFactory.getLog(Client.class);

private final SessionFactory sessionFactory = getSessionFactory();

protected SessionFactory getSessionFactory() {
try {
return (SessionFactory) new InitialContext().lookup("SessionFactory");
}
catch (Exception e) {
log.error("Could not locate SessionFactory in JNDI", e);
throw new IllegalStateException("Could not locate SessionFactory in JNDI");
}
}

public void persist(Client transientInstance) {
log.debug("persisting Client instance");
try {
sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().persist(transientInstance);
log.debug("persist successful");
}
catch (RuntimeException re) {
log.error("persist failed", re);
throw re;
}
}

public void attachDirty(Client instance) {
log.debug("attaching dirty Client instance");
try {
sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().saveOrUpdate(instance);
log.debug("attach successful");
}
catch (RuntimeException re) {
log.error("attach failed", re);
throw re;
}
}

public void attachClean(Client instance) {
log.debug("attaching clean Client instance");
try {
sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().lock(instance, LockMode.NONE);
log.debug("attach successful");
}
catch (RuntimeException re) {
log.error("attach failed", re);
throw re;
}
}

public void delete(Client persistentInstance) {
log.debug("deleting Client instance");
try {
sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().delete(persistentInstance);
log.debug("delete successful");
}
catch (RuntimeException re) {
log.error("delete failed", re);
throw re;
}
}

public Client merge(Client detachedInstance) {
log.debug("merging Client instance");
try {
Client result = (Client) sessionFactory.getCurrentSession()
.merge(detachedInstance);
log.debug("merge successful");
return result;
}
catch (RuntimeException re) {
log.error("merge failed", re);
throw re;
}
}

public Client findById(String id) {
log.debug("getting Client instance with id: " + id);
try {
Client instance = (Client) sessionFactory.getCurrentSession()
.get("com.wasc.swiftcambio.Client", id);
if (instance==null) {
log.debug("get successful, no instance found");
}
else {
log.debug("get successful, instance found");
}
return instance;
}
catch (RuntimeException re) {
log.error("get failed", re);
throw re;
}
}


public List findByExample(Client instance) {
log.debug("finding Client instance by example");
try {
List results = sessionFactory.getCurrentSession()
.createCriteria("com.wasc.swiftcambio.Client")
.add( create(instance) )
.list();
log.debug("find by example successful, result size: " + results.size());
return results;
}
catch (RuntimeException re) {
log.error("find by example failed", re);
throw re;
}
}

}

Your session factory is not registered in your name service or name service is not up. Since you wanted to test it in standalone mode, you could simply programatically create sessionfactory instead of obtaining it from JNDI.

could you post an example of this?