Failed to create sessionFactory object.java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/hibernate/cfg/Configuration

Question

I've got this exception right now: Failed to create sessionFactory object.java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/hibernate/cfg/Configuration I'm working with Idea 12

hibernate.cfg.xml (inside my main package) :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

    <!-- Database connection settings -->
    <property name="connection.driver_class">org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver</property>
    <property name="connection.url">jdbc:hsqldb:hsql://localhost/shop</property>
    <property name="connection.username">sa</property>
    <property name="connection.password"></property>

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

    <!-- database pooling information -->
    <property name="connection_provider_class">org.hibernate.connection.C3P0ConnectionProvider
    </property>
    <property name="c3p0.minPoolSize">5</property>
    <property name="c3p0.timeout">1000</property>

    <!-- using container-managed JNDI
    <property name="hibernate.connection.datasource">
       java:comp/env/jdbc/LiveDataSource
    </property>   -->


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


    <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">create</property>
    <!--<property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">create-drop</property>-->

    <mapping class="model.Admin"/>
    <mapping class="model.User"/>
    <mapping class="model.Address"/>
    <mapping class="model.Brand"/>
    <mapping class="model.Item"/>
    <mapping class="model.GenericItem"/>
    <mapping class="model.Size"/>
    <mapping class="model.Client"/>
    <mapping class="model.Order"/>

</session-factory>

These are my maven dependencies:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> 4.0.0

<groupId>shop</groupId>
<artifactId>shop</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.hsqldb</groupId>
        <artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId>
        <version>2.2.9</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax.transaction</groupId>
        <artifactId>jta</artifactId>
        <version>1.1</version>
    </dependency>
    <!--<dependency>
        <groupId>javax</groupId>
        <artifactId>javaee-api</artifactId>
        <version>6.0</version>
    </dependency>-->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
        <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
        <version>3.0.1</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>junit</groupId>
        <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
        <version>3.8.1</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.hibernate.common</groupId>
        <artifactId>hibernate-commons-annotations</artifactId>
        <version>4.0.1.Final</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.hibernate.javax.persistence</groupId>
        <artifactId>hibernate-jpa-2.0-api</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.1.Final</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
        <artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
        <version>4.2.0.Final</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>securityfilter</groupId>
        <artifactId>securityfilter</artifactId>
        <version>2.0</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax.persistence</groupId>
        <artifactId>persistence-api</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.2</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax</groupId>
        <artifactId>javaee-api</artifactId>
        <version>6.0</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>cglib</groupId>
        <artifactId>cglib</artifactId>
        <version>2.2.2</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>asm</groupId>
        <artifactId>asm-all</artifactId>
        <version>3.3.1</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>log4j</groupId>
        <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
        <version>1.2.16</version>
    </dependency>



</dependencies>

In case it helps this is the output:

    [2014-07-13 08:11:48,631] Artifact shop:war exploded: Server is not connected. Deploy is not available.
jul 13, 2014 8:11:49 PM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init
INFO: La biblioteca nativa de Apache Tomcat basada en ARP que permite un rendimiento ?ptimo en entornos de desarrollo no ha sido hallada en java.library.path: /Users/florenciavelarde/Library/Java/Extensions:/Library/Java/Extensions:/Network/Library/Java/Extensions:/System/Library/Java/Extensions:/usr/lib/java:.
jul 13, 2014 8:11:49 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol init
INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"]
jul 13, 2014 8:11:49 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol init
INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler ["ajp-bio-8009"]
jul 13, 2014 8:11:49 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 711 ms
jul 13, 2014 8:11:49 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService startInternal
INFO: Arrancando servicio Catalina
jul 13, 2014 8:11:49 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine startInternal
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.39
jul 13, 2014 8:11:49 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"]
jul 13, 2014 8:11:49 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["ajp-bio-8009"]
jul 13, 2014 8:11:49 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 74 ms
Connected to server
[2014-07-13 08:11:50,049] Artifact shop:war exploded: Artifact is being deployed, please wait...
[2014-07-13 08:11:50,561] Artifact shop:war exploded: Artifact is deployed successfully
Failed to create sessionFactory object.java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/hibernate/cfg/Configuration

Does anyone knows how to solve this problem? Is it something wrong with the file content o where it's located?

Answer 1

If you get this error object.java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError for SessionFactory it means that you are missing the hibernate libs.

Check that your hibernate jar file is included in your class path.

The needed jars are:

lib/antlr.jar
lib/cglib.jar
lib/asm.jar
lib/commons-collections.jar
lib/commons-logging.jar
lib/jta.jar
lib/dom4j.jar
lib/log4j.jar
lib/hibernate3.jar

Btw, you can check also this post .