Caused by: org.dom4j.DocumentException: Error on line 2 of document  : The document type declaration for root element type "hibernate-configuration" must end with '>'. Nested exception: The document type declaration for root element type "hibernate-configuration" must end with '>'.

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

<hibernate-configuration>

   <session-factory>

      <!-- Database connection settings -->
      <!-- For AS400 DB -->
      <property name="connection.driver_class">com.ibm.as400.access.AS400JDBCDriver</property>
      <property name="connection.url">jdbc:as400://192.168.1.100</property>     
      <property name="connection.user">MYUSER</property>                            
      <property name="connection.password">MYUSER</property>                        
      <property name="connection.libraries">MYLIB, *libl</property>   
                  
      <property name="connection.naming">sql</property>
      <property name="connection.trace">false</property>
      <property name="connection.errors">full</property>

      <!-- JDBC connection pool (use the built-in) -->
      <property name="connection.pool_size">1</property>

      <!-- SQL dialect -->
      <property name="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.DB2400Dialect</property>

      <!-- Enable Hibernate's automatic session context management -->
      <property name="current_session_context_class">thread</property>

      <!-- Disable the second-level cache  -->
      <property name="cache.provider_class">org.hibernate.cache.NoCacheProvider</property>

      <!-- Echo all executed SQL to stdout -->
      <property name="show_sql">true</property>

      <!-- Drop and re-create the database schema on startup -->
      <property name="hbm2ddl.auto">update</property>

      <mapping resource="com/microfirst/drink/request/hbm/as400/Drink.hbm.xml"/>
      <mapping resource="com/microfirst/drink/request/hbm/as400/Floormaps.hbm.xml"/>
      <mapping resource="com/microfirst/drink/request/hbm/as400/Users.hbm.xml"/>
      <mapping resource="com/microfirst/drink/request/hbm/as400/Drinkrequest.hbm.xml"/>   
      <mapping resource="com/microfirst/drink/request/hbm/as400/FloorConfigurations.hbm.xml"/>   
       <mapping resource="com/microfirst/drink/request/hbm/as400/BarMaster.hbm.xml"/>
       
   </session-factory>

</hibernate-configuration>