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Hibernate Error – Initial SessionFactory creation failed.java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/sf/cglib/proxy/CallbackFilter

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


Initial SessionFactory creation failed.java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/sf/cglib/proxy/CallbackFilter
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: net/sf/cglib/proxy/CallbackFilter
	at org.hibernate.bytecode.cglib.BytecodeProviderImpl.getProxyFactoryFactory(BytecodeProviderImpl.java:33)
	at org.hibernate.tuple.entity.PojoEntityTuplizer.buildProxyFactoryInternal(PojoEntityTuplizer.java:182)
	at org.hibernate.tuple.entity.PojoEntityTuplizer.buildProxyFactory(PojoEntityTuplizer.java:160)
	at org.hibernate.tuple.entity.AbstractEntityTuplizer.<init>(AbstractEntityTuplizer.java:135)
	at org.hibernate.tuple.entity.PojoEntityTuplizer.<init>(PojoEntityTuplizer.java:55)
	at org.hibernate.tuple.entity.EntityEntityModeToTuplizerMapping.<init>(EntityEntityModeToTuplizerMapping.java:56)
	at org.hibernate.tuple.entity.EntityMetamodel.<init>(EntityMetamodel.java:295)
	at org.hibernate.persister.entity.AbstractEntityPersister.<init>(AbstractEntityPersister.java:434)
	at org.hibernate.persister.entity.SingleTableEntityPersister.<init>(SingleTableEntityPersister.java:109)
	at org.hibernate.persister.PersisterFactory.createClassPersister(PersisterFactory.java:55)
	at org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl.<init>(SessionFactoryImpl.java:226)
	at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1294)
	at com.mkyong.persistence.HibernateUtil.buildSessionFactory(HibernateUtil.java:13)
	... 2 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: net.sf.cglib.proxy.CallbackFilter
	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)
	... 15 more

Solution

You can download the library here – http://cglib.sourceforge.net/

Or

Add the dependency in Maven’s pom.xml


       <dependency>
		<groupId>cglib</groupId>
		<artifactId>cglib</artifactId>
		<version>2.2</version>
	</dependency>

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