Hi,

I've got as far with the tutorial as:
$ ant run -Daction=store
whereupon it builds successfully & then falls over with the following error:
[java] 11:18:59,122 INFO Configuration:559 - Reading mappings from resource : events/Event.hbm.xml
[java] 11:18:59,129 ERROR XMLHelper:61 - Error parsing XML: XML InputStream(1) Document is invalid: no grammar found.
[java] 11:18:59,130 ERROR XMLHelper:61 - Error parsing XML: XML InputStream(1) Document root element "hibernate-mapping", must match DOCTYPE root "null".
[java] Initial SessionFactory creation failed.org.hibernate.InvalidMappingException: Could not parse mapping document from resource events/Event.hbm.xml
[java] Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
[java] at util.HibernateUtil.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
[java] at events.EventManager.createAndStoreEvent(Unknown Source)
...(rest of stack trace snipped for brevity)

I'm assuming that the problem is with Event.hbm.xml as that was the last thing it was doing, but I've checked & the file is the same as in the tutorial (I used copy/paste rather than typing it all in) & located in the tutorial/src/event/ package folder along with Event.java. Why's it doing this?

Here's my Event.hbm.xml file:
<hibernate-mapping>

<class name="events.Event" table="EVENTS">
<id name="id" column="EVENT_ID">
<generator class="native"/>
</id>
<property name="date" type="timestamp" column="EVENT_DATE"/>
<property name="title"/>
</class>

</hibernate-mapping>

Gah - I'm an eeejit! I left off the XML header from the .hbm.xml file! Problem solved.

I follow the tutorial to create Event.hbm.xml but I got the error when I run it.

[java] 15:55:54,746 INFO Configuration:559 - Reading mappings from resource : events/Event.hbm.xml
[java] 15:55:54,756 ERROR XMLHelper:61 - Error parsing XML: XML InputStream(2) Document is invalid: no grammar found.
[java] 15:55:54,766 ERROR XMLHelper:61 - Error parsing XML: XML InputStream(2) Document root element "hibernate-mapping", must match DOCTYPE root "null".
[java] Initial SessionFactory creation failed.org.hibernate.InvalidMappingException: Could not parse mapping document from resource events/Event.hbm.xml

Here's the contents in Event.hbm.xml
<hibernate-mapping>
<class name="events.Event" table="EVENTS">
<id name="id" column="EVENT_ID">
<generator class="native"/>
</id>
<property name="date" type="timestamp" column="EVENT_DATE"/>
<property name="title"/>
</class>
</hibernate-mapping>

Sometimes the simplest problems are the toughest ones to solve.

Onwards and upwards!

Yes, to clarify, what we've both left out is the XML header, which looks like this:

...and goes just above the <hibernate-mapping>...etc.

Once that's in, it sorts it out nicely. It's mentioned in the tutorial but because the whole file isn't quoted as one piece, us copy-pastafarians end up copying half a file.