Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/hibernate/cfg/Configuration

Question

I am trying to run a basic hibernate 5 program using maven. It gives error while creating the Configuration object. What am I missing ? Getting the following error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/hibernate/cfg/Configuration
    at org.spade.utility.HibernateUtility.getSessionFactory(HibernateUtility.java:15)
    at org.spade.dao.UserDao.saveUser(UserDao.java:21)
    at org.spade.dao.UserDao.main(UserDao.java:12)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    ... 3 more

This is the pom.xml:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>org.spade</groupId>
  <artifactId>HibernateDemo</artifactId>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>

  <dependencies>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
                <artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
                <version>5.2.10.Final</version>
            </dependency>

            <dependency>
                <groupId>com.github.noraui</groupId>
                <artifactId>ojdbc7</artifactId>
                <version>12.1.0.2</version>
            </dependency>
  </dependencies>

  <build>
  <pluginManagement>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.6.2</version>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.8</source>
                    <target>1.8</target>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </pluginManagement>
  </build>
</project>

Following are the jars present as Maven dependencies:

I have seen other answers on SO giving solution for the same problem but none has worked.

Answer 1

Are you running this on a server like jboss? If so, it is probably a mismatch version of hibernate. Try adding scope provided to use server version as follows:

<dependency>
   <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
   <artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
   <version>5.2.10.Final</version>
   <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>