Hello.
I have in my pom.xml:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
<version>3.6.0.Final</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
<version>3.6.0.Final</version>
</dependency>

and in spring-context.xml:

<bean id="dataSource"
class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource"
destroy-method="close">
<property name="driverClassName" value="org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver"/>
<property name="url" value="jdbc:hsqldb:mem:jsf2demo"/>
<property name="username" value="sa"/>
<property name="password" value=""/>
</bean>

<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
<property name="annotatedClasses">
<list>
<value>com.maxheapsize.jsf2demo.Book</value>
</list>
</property>
<property name="hibernateProperties">
<props>
<prop key="hibernate.dialect">
org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect
</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">create</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>


but i get the exception:

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.persistence.Entity
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1671)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1516)
... 41 more


Please help!

I'm sorry, i wasn't forwarded to next page when posting so it got posted several times.
The other 2 identical posts can be removed.

Hi. Do you have the .jar containing the Class Entity.class?
For me, it's in the ejb3-persistence.jar

Hope that helps.