Hibernate Error – Initial SessionFactory creation failed.java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/logging/LogFactory
A common Hibernate’s error, this is caused by the missing dependency library – Common Logging.
Initial SessionFactory creation failed.java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/logging/LogFactory
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/apache/commons/logging/LogFactory
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.<clinit>(Configuration.java:120)
at com.mkyong.persistence.HibernateUtil.buildSessionFactory(HibernateUtil.java:13)
... 2 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory
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)
... 4 more
Solution
You can download the library here – http://commons.apache.org/logging/
Or
Add the dependency in Maven’s pom.xml
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
<version>1.1.1</version>
</dependency>
i added this but i stil have the same problem