Hi,
When trying to run a simple Hibernate program , getting the following error.
Seems the hibernate.cfg.xml is not able to read

Thanks for help

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12:00:51,609 INFO Version:43 - Hibernate Annotations 3.5.6-Final
12:00:51,656 INFO Environment:570 - Hibernate 3.5.6-Final
12:00:51,656 INFO Environment:603 - hibernate.properties not found
12:00:51,656 INFO Environment:781 - Bytecode provider name : javassist
12:00:51,671 INFO Environment:662 - using JDK 1.4 java.sql.Timestamp handling
12:00:51,781 INFO Version:37 - Hibernate Commons Annotations 3.2.0.Final
12:00:51,781 INFO Configuration:1518 - configuring from resource: hibernate.cfg.xml
12:00:51,781 INFO Configuration:1495 - Configuration resource: hibernate.cfg.xml
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.AbstractMethodError: org/slf4j/Logger.trace(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/Object;Ljava/lang/Object;)V
at org.hibernate.cfg.EJB3DTDEntityResolver.resolveEntity(EJB3DTDEntityResolver.java:55)
at org.apache.xerces.util.EntityResolverWrapper.resolveEntity(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.resolveEntity(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$DTDDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:465)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.doConfigure(Configuration.java:1576)
at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration.doConfigure(AnnotationConfiguration.java:1212)
at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration.doConfigure(AnnotationConfiguration.java:107)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.configure(Configuration.java:1520)
at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration.configure(AnnotationConfiguration.java:1194)
at com.akd.hibernate.chapter1.TestEmployee.main(TestEmployee.java:17)

please use the correct forum.

You likely have incompatible versions of slf4j jars in your classpath; for Hibernate 3.5.x, you need SLF4J 1.5.8 (both for the API and implementation JARs)

Thanks for the response.

Can confirm I do have slf4J-api-1.5.8.jar on my classpath.

But issue exists with same error message.

I'm sure you have more slf4j jars on your classpath. Tattletale is a usufeul tool to scan large and complex directories for class and jar duplicates: http://www.jboss.org/tattletale

I had to include slf4J-log4j12-1.5.8.jar , and now it works.

Thanks.