Intial Session Factory Creation Failed.

[endx]

I am using hibernate3. when I rum my java applicaiton the following error appears. pls help me.
19:07:34,656 ERROR HibernateUtil:28 - Initial SessionFactory creation failed.
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.doConfigure(Config uration.java:1214)
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class jp.ac.nagaokaut.gii.lim.engine.util.HibernateUtil
at jp.ac.nagaokaut.gii.lim.engine.service.LIService.t eachSourceDatabase(LIService.java:72)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.doConfigure(Config uration.java:1184)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.configure(Configur ation.java:1112)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.configure(Configur ation.java:1098)
at jp.ac.nagaokaut.gii.lim.engine.util.HibernateUtil. <clinit>(HibernateUtil.java:24)
at Classifier.Identify(Classifier.java:25)
at FileHandler.Handlefile(FileHandler.java:99)
at DesktopCrawler.TraverseDir(DesktopCrawler.java:259 )
at Main.main(Main.java:57)
at jp.ac.nagaokaut.gii.lim.engine.dao.SourceDAO.readS ourceList(SourceDAO.java:57)
at jp.ac.nagaokaut.gii.lim.engine.service.LIService.t eachSourceDatabase(LIService.java:59)
at Classifier.Identify(Classifier.java:25)
at FileHandler.Handlefile(FileHandler.java:99)
at DesktopCrawler.TraverseDir(DesktopCrawler.java:259 )
at Main.main(Main.java:57)

Thanks,

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[Eranga]

This is all about class path error. May be you are missing a jar file which is hibernate use.

[Niveditha]

Yes Eranga is right. I think it is hibernate3.jar

[Eranga]

All jar file in the hibernate root folder lib, copied to your working lib folder may be fix this.