Hi, Hibernate newbie here. I am trying to set up my first Hibernate web project in Netbeans.

I have the cfg file properly in the root of my classpath:


<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-configuration>
<!-- a SessionFactory instance listed as /jndi/name -->
<session-factory>

<!-- properties -->
<property name="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.SQLServerDialect</property>
<property name="connection.driver_class">net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver</property>
<property name="connection.url">jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://server/db</property>
<property name="connection.username">username</property>
<property name="connection.password">password</property>
<property name="use_outer_join">true</property>
<property name="transaction.factory_class">
net.sf.hibernate.transaction.JTATransactionFactory
</property>
<property name="jta.UserTransaction">java:comp/UserTransaction</property>
<property name="show_sql">true</property>
</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

I have my HibernateUtil class configured to use an annotation configuration since that is what I want to try (I don't like the whole hassle of mapping files):

public class HibernateUtil {
private static final SessionFactory sessionFactory;
static {
try {
sessionFactory = new AnnotationConfiguration()
.addPackage("com.cornerstone.datamodel")
.addAnnotatedClass(Contact.class)
.buildSessionFactory();

} catch (Throwable ex) {
// Log exception!
throw new ExceptionInInitializerError(ex.getMessage());
}
}
public static Session getSession() throws HibernateException {
return sessionFactory.openSession();
}
}

I get the "Hibernate Dialect must be explicitly set" exception when trying to run it, even though my dialect is explicitly set up in the config file.

exception

javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet execution threw an exception
org.netbeans.modules.web.monitor.server.MonitorFilter.doFilter(MonitorFilter.java:362)


root cause

java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError: Hibernate Dialect must be explicitly set
com.cornerstone.HibernateUtil.<clinit>(HibernateUtil.java:21)



I am using the latest builds of Hibernate and Hibernate Annotations. I would appreciate any suggestions of what I might be doing wrong. All the necessary libs (i.e. all the hibernate jars and their dependencies as well as the JDBC driver) are in my Netbeans classpath for the project.

I tested switching to a regular session (no annotations):

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

and it worked no problem (but of course I can't use my annotated classes with it). Is this a bug with Annotations in Hibernate?

Got it to work finally using this code



note the .configure();

Isn't this supposed to be automatic?

eh no....it have always been required to call .configure() to load the default cfg.xml file.

OK, thanks...this must be an issue with the HB docs then, since they explicity omit this:



See:
http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/annot ... figuration

well, that example does not require an hibernate.cfg.xml to work.

report it to the jira with a patch for the docs if you feel you have an better explanation.