java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class Hibernate.util.HibernateUtil

Question

The following is my HibernateUtil class:

package Hibernate.util;

import org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration;
import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;

public class HibernateUtil {

    private static final SessionFactory sessionFactory;

    static {
        try {
            // Create the SessionFactory from standard (hibernate.cfg.xml) 
            // config file.
            sessionFactory = new AnnotationConfiguration().configure().buildSessionFactory();
        } catch (Throwable ex) {
            // Log the exception. 
            System.err.println("Initial SessionFactory creation failed." + ex);
            throw new ExceptionInInitializerError(ex);
        }
    }

    public static SessionFactory getSessionFactory() {
        return sessionFactory;
    }
}

My controller:

package Controllers;
import DAOImpl.ProductDAOImpl;
import Entities.Product;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
@Controller
public class ProductController {

    @RequestMapping("/products.htm")
    public String getAllProducts() throws SQLException
    {
        ProductDAOImpl mapping = new ProductDAOImpl();
        Product p = new Product();
        p.setCost(1000);
        p.setName("Саморезы");
        mapping.addProduct(p);
        return "index";
    }
}

But when I run web-app I have excpetion:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class Hibernate.util.HibernateUtil
    DAOImpl.ProductDAOImpl.addProduct(ProductDAOImpl.java:24)
    Controllers.ProductController.getAllProducts(ProductController.java:20)
    sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
    sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
    org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.support.HandlerMethodInvoker.invokeHandlerMethod(HandlerMethodInvoker.java:175)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.invokeHandlerMethod(AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.java:446)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.handle(AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.java:434)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:945)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:876)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:961)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:852)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:620)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.service(FrameworkServlet.java:837)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:727)
    org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52

Any Idea? Might HibernateUtil must be registered in any place?

Solution 1

i think you don't have mysql-connector.jar in your Classpath

Solution 2

This class first of all must be on your classpath. And then make sure that ProductDAOImpl ge the sessionFactory(to eventually provide the session) via HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory().

You are anyway free to define this class as a bean in you application context if you like to do so.