I am getting error in: Exception in thread "main" org.hibernate.HibernateException: Could not parse configuration: hibernate.cfg.xml

Question

I am getting this Exception

Exception in thread "main" org.hibernate.HibernateException: Could not parse      configuration: hibernate.cfg.xml
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.doConfigure(Configuration.java:1491)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.configure(Configuration.java:1425)
at com.jwt.hibernate.SimpleTest.main(SimpleTest.java:13)
Caused by: org.dom4j.DocumentException: www.hibernate.org Nested exception: www.hibernate.org
at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:484)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.doConfigure(Configuration.java:1481)

My hibernate.cfg file is

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://www.hibernate.org/dtd/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory>
<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost:3006/mydb</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.username">root</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.password"></property>
<property  name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</property>
<property name="show_sql">true</property>
<property name="format_sql">true</property>
<property name="hbm2ddl.auto">create</property> 
<mapping resource="com/jwt/hibernate/student.hbm.xml" />
</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

My Mapping File is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN" "http://www.hibernate.org/dtd/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-mapping>
<class name="com.jwt.hibernate.Student" table="STUDENT">
<id column="ID" name="id" type="int" />
<property column="STUDENT_NAME" name="name" type="string" />
<property column="DEGREE" name="degree" type="string" />
<property column="ROLL" name="roll" type="string" />
<property column="PHONE" name="phone" type="string" />
</class>
</hibernate-mapping>

My Bean class is:

public class Student {
    private int id;
    private String name;
    private String degree;
    private String roll;
    private String phone;
    /** Getters and setters omitted **/
}

My Tester class is:

public class SimpleTest {

  public static void main(String[] args) {

    Configuration cfg = new Configuration();
    cfg.configure("hibernate.cfg.xml");
    SessionFactory factory = cfg.buildSessionFactory();
    Session session = factory.openSession();
    Student student = new Student();
    student.setName("Gourab");
    student.setRoll("101");
    student.setPhone("8888");
    student.setDegree("B.E");

    Transaction tx = session.beginTransaction();
    session.save(student);
    System.out.println("Object saved successfully.....!!");
    tx.commit();
    session.close();
    factory.close();
  }
}

My Folder Structure is

I have added all required jars for connecting to hibernate and mysql(e.g hibernate-core 3.8.9.Final.jar,mysql-connector-java-5.1.12-bin.jar) But still I am getting the error. Please Help me out. Thanks in advance

Full Stack Trace:

Exception in thread "main" org.hibernate.HibernateException: Could not parse    configuration: hibernate.cfg.xml
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.doConfigure(Configuration.java:1491)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.configure(Configuration.java:1425)
at com.jwt.hibernate.SimpleTest.main(SimpleTest.java:12)
Caused by: org.dom4j.DocumentException: www.hibernate.org Nested exception: www.hibernate.org
at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:484)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.doConfigure(Configuration.java:1481)
... 2 more

My jar files are

Answer 1

I copied every file from your page as above and created a new project. Please follow the below structure to avoid the above exception.

public class App 
{
public static void main( String[] args )
{
    System.out.println("Maven + Hibernate + MySQL");
    Session session = HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory().openSession();

    session.beginTransaction();
    Student st1 = new Student();

    st1.setName("srinivas");
    st1.setPhone("99");
    st1.setRoll("123");


    session.save(st1);
    session.getTransaction().commit();
}
}

Answer 2

Hibernate can't parse your hibernate.cfg.xml.

hibernate-core-3.6.9.Final.jar has a file with DTD hibernate-core-3.6.9.Final/org/hibernate/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd

Check this file inside hibernate-core-3.6.9.Final.jar.

You need to have the same DTD as hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd has.

<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN" "http://www.hibernate.org/dtd/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">

Looks like you already have it.

May be you have other hibernate-core jar in the class path with other DTD.

Answer 3

Could you try to check your .jar again? I try to execute your project SimpleTest.java with my .jar. It is work. Please take a look