Using hibernate and ms sql server driver

Question

Microsoft doesn't supply jdbc jar to central maven repository. It needs register driver manually. But I make something wrong. I saw same exception trace:

Initial SessionFactory creation failed.org.hibernate.service.classloading.spi.ClassLoadingException: Specified JDBC Driver "com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver" class not found
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
    at logic.HibernateUtil.buildSessionFactory(HibernateUtil.java:22)
    at logic.HibernateUtil.<clinit>(HibernateUtil.java:8)
    at logic.Main.main(Main.java:12)
Caused by: org.hibernate.service.classloading.spi.ClassLoadingException: Specified JDBC Driver "com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver" class not found
    at org.hibernate.service.jdbc.connections.internal.DriverManagerConnectionProviderImpl.configure(DriverManagerConnectionProviderImpl.java:107)
    at org.hibernate.service.internal.StandardServiceRegistryImpl.configureService(StandardServiceRegistryImpl.java:75)
    at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.initializeService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:159)
    at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.getService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:131)
    at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.internal.JdbcServicesImpl.buildJdbcConnectionAccess(JdbcServicesImpl.java:223)
    at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.internal.JdbcServicesImpl.configure(JdbcServicesImpl.java:89)
    at org.hibernate.service.internal.StandardServiceRegistryImpl.configureService(StandardServiceRegistryImpl.java:75)
    at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.initializeService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:159)
    at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.getService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:131)
    at org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory.buildSettings(SettingsFactory.java:71)
    at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSettingsInternal(Configuration.java:2277)
    at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSettings(Configuration.java:2273)
    at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1742)
    at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1782)
    at logic.HibernateUtil.buildSessionFactory(HibernateUtil.java:17)
    ... 2 more
Caused by: org.hibernate.service.classloading.spi.ClassLoadingException: Unable to load class ["com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver"]
    at org.hibernate.service.classloading.internal.ClassLoaderServiceImpl.classForName(ClassLoaderServiceImpl.java:141)
    at org.hibernate.service.jdbc.connections.internal.DriverManagerConnectionProviderImpl.configure(DriverManagerConnectionProviderImpl.java:104)
    ... 16 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Could not load requested class : "com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver"
    at org.hibernate.service.classloading.internal.ClassLoaderServiceImpl$1.findClass(ClassLoaderServiceImpl.java:99)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
    at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
    at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:247)
    at org.hibernate.service.classloading.internal.ClassLoaderServiceImpl.classForName(ClassLoaderServiceImpl.java:138)
    ... 17 more

I use STS(eclipse product) in maven dependencies :

What do I make wrong?

Answer 1

If you are using JRE version 6.0 or 7.0 then use sqljdbc4.jar file. If the JRE version is 5.0 then use sqljdbc.jar file.

These jar files can be downloaded from here

Also you can get more clarity about System Requirements for the JDBC Driver from here

Answer 2

Please check following properties are correctly configured or not

<property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:sqlserver://localhost:1433;database=<dbname>;</property>
    <property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.SQLServer2008Dialect</property>