hi i'm a newbie in hibernate and i have a error in hibernate tutorial from documentation in part 3, where develop the interface via java servlets.
this is the error-SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet hello threw exception java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/hibernate/cfg/Configuration
what does it mean?
this is my code
Code:
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
public class EventManagerServlet extends HttpServlet {
public void service(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
SimpleDateFormat dateFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat( "dd.MM.yyyy" );
try {
// Begin unit of work
HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession().beginTransaction();
// Process request and render page...
// Write HTML header
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
out.println("<html><head><title>Event Manager</title></head><body>");
// Handle action
if ( "store".equals(request.getParameter("action")) ) {
String eventTitle = request.getParameter("eventTitle");
String eventDate = request.getParameter("eventDate");
if ( "".equals(eventTitle) || "".equals(eventDate) ) {
out.println("<b><i>Please enter event title and date.</i></b>");
}
else {
createAndStoreEvent(eventTitle, dateFormatter.parse(eventDate));
out.println("<b><i>Added event.</i></b>");
}
}
// Print page
printEventForm(out);
listEvents(out, dateFormatter);
// Write HTML footer
out.println("</body></html>");
out.flush();
out.close();
// End unit of work
HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession().getTransaction().commit();
}
catch (Exception ex) {
HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession().getTransaction().rollback();
if ( ServletException.class.isInstance( ex ) ) {
throw ( ServletException ) ex;
}
else {
throw new ServletException( ex );
}
}/**/
}
private void printEventForm(PrintWriter out) {
out.println("<h2>Add new event:</h2>");
out.println("<form>");
out.println("Title: <input name='eventTitle' length='50'/><br/>");
out.println("Date (e.g. 24.12.2009): <input name='eventDate' length='10'/><br/>");
out.println("<input type='submit' name='action' value='store'/>");
out.println("</form>");
}
private void listEvents(PrintWriter out, SimpleDateFormat dateFormatter) {
List result = HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory()
.getCurrentSession().createCriteria(Event.class).list();
if (result.size() > 0) {
out.println("<h2>Events in database:</h2>");
out.println("<table border='1'>");
out.println("<tr>");
out.println("<th>Event title</th>");
out.println("<th>Event date</th>");
out.println("</tr>");
Iterator it = result.iterator();
while (it.hasNext()) {
Event event = (Event) it.next();
out.println("<tr>");
out.println("<td>" + event.getTitle() + "</td>");
out.println("<td>" + dateFormatter.format(event.getDate()) + "</td>");
out.println("</tr>");
}
out.println("</table>");
}
}
protected void createAndStoreEvent(String title, Date theDate) {
Event theEvent = new Event();
theEvent.setTitle(title);
theEvent.setDate(theDate);
HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory()
.getCurrentSession().save(theEvent);
}
protected void doGet(
HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
SimpleDateFormat dateFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat( "dd.MM.yyyy" );
try {
// Begin unit of work
HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession().beginTransaction();
// Process request and render page...
// Write HTML header
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
out.println("<html><head><title>Event Manager</title></head><body>");
// Handle actions
if ( "store".equals(request.getParameter("action")) ) {
String eventTitle = request.getParameter("eventTitle");
String eventDate = request.getParameter("eventDate");
if ( "".equals(eventTitle) || "".equals(eventDate) ) {
out.println("<b><i>Please enter event title and date.</i></b>");
}
else {
createAndStoreEvent(eventTitle, dateFormatter.parse(eventDate));
out.println("<b><i>Added event.</i></b>");
}
}
// Print page
printEventForm(out);
listEvents(out, dateFormatter);
// Write HTML footer
out.println("</body></html>");
out.flush();
out.close();
// End unit of work
HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession().getTransaction().commit();
}
catch (Exception ex) {
HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession().getTransaction().rollback();
if ( ServletException.class.isInstance( ex ) ) {
throw ( ServletException ) ex;
}
else {
throw new ServletException( ex );
}
}
}
}
i use Eclipse 3.2 tomcat 6
can anybody help me?