I am new to hibernate, the below code is downloaded from roseindia.com.

When i try to run this program in eclipse , I got a Null pointer exception.

My question is where to put my hibernate.cfg.xml file ? though I placed it in my bin folder. Still program is not reading .Please help me out.

JAva code :

public class FirstExample {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Session session = null;

try{
// This step will read hibernate.cfg.xml and prepare hibernate for use
SessionFactory sessionFactory = new Configuration().configure("hibernate.cfg.xml").buildSessionFactory();
session =sessionFactory.openSession();
//Create new instance of Contact and set values in it by reading them from form object
System.out.println("Inserting Record");
Contact contact = new Contact();
contact.setId(6);
contact.setFirstName("Deepak");
contact.setLastName("Kumar");
contact.setEmail("deepak_38@yahoo.com");
session.save(contact);
System.out.println("Done");
}catch(Exception e){
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}finally{
// Actual contact insertion will happen at this step
session.flush();
session.close();

}

}
}

Configuration file :
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">

<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory>
<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:oracle:thin:@orahrodev88.bosptc.intuit.com:1526:HRODEV88</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.username">sysadm</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.password">c0ld0ne</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.pool_size">10</property>
<property name="show_sql">true</property>
<property name="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.OracleDialect</property>
<property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">update</property>
<!-- Mapping files -->
<mapping resource="contact.hbm.xml"/>
</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

Hibernate.cfg.xml needs to go inside your classpath and assuming bin is there in your classpath, you have placed the xml in the correct location. Can you post the complete stacktrace.