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Hibernate Error – Initial SessionFactory creation failed.java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/dom4j/DocumentException

A common Hibernate’s error, this is caused by the missing dependency library – dom4j.


Initial SessionFactory creation failed.java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/dom4j/DocumentException
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
	at com.mkyong.persistence.HibernateUtil.buildSessionFactory(HibernateUtil.java:18)
	at com.mkyong.persistence.HibernateUtil.<clinit>(HibernateUtil.java:8)
	at com.mkyong.common.App.main(App.java:17)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/dom4j/DocumentException
	at com.mkyong.persistence.HibernateUtil.buildSessionFactory(HibernateUtil.java:13)
	... 2 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.dom4j.DocumentException
	at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
	at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320)
	... 3 more

Solution

You can download the library here – http://sourceforge.net/projects/dom4j/files/dom4j/

Or

Add the dependency in Maven’s pom.xml


       <dependency>
		<groupId>dom4j</groupId>
		<artifactId>dom4j</artifactId>
		<version>1.6.1</version>
	</dependency>

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Ravi
10 years ago

What is Maven’s pom.xml?

You mean it web.xml.

I dont have any pom.xml in my project

roger
10 years ago

Would somebody get in touch with whoever makes the maven packages and tell them to get their dependency act in gear?