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    org.jbpm.api.JbpmException: couldn't instantiate hibernate configuration class org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration
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    created by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/chaitanya_d6%40yahoo.com">Chaitanya Desai</a> in <i>jBPM</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/537030#537030">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hello ,</p><p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; I am new to jBPM . I installed jBPM 4.3 on Jboss 5.1 after making required changes in the build.xml within the install Folder.&#160; I deploy the sample examples into JBOSS and then try to run one of them as JUNIT test. However I receive this error :</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><div id="_mcePaste">## EXCEPTION ###########################################</div><div id="_mcePaste">17:24:56,456 INF | [DefaultCommandService] exception while executing command org.jbpm.pvm.internal.cmd.CheckDbCmd@fd68b1</div><div id="_mcePaste">org.jbpm.api.JbpmException: couldn't instantiate hibernate configuration class org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.descriptor.HibernateConfigurationDescriptor.construct(HibernateConfigurationDescriptor.java:64)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.construct(WireContext.java:469)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.create(WireContext.java:448)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.create(WireContext.java:437)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.get(WireContext.java:417)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.get(WireContext.java:327)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.get(WireContext.java:688)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.descriptor.HibernateSessionFactoryDescriptor.construct(HibernateSessionFactoryDescriptor.java:57)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.construct(WireContext.java:469)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.create(WireContext.java:448)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.create(WireContext.java:437)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.get(WireContext.java:417)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.get(WireContext.java:327)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.get(WireContext.java:688)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.env.BasicEnvironment.get(BasicEnvironment.java:139)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.env.BasicEnvironment.get(BasicEnvironment.java:130)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.descriptor.HibernateSessionDescriptor.construct(HibernateSessionDescriptor.java:63)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.construct(WireContext.java:469)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.create(WireContext.java:448)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.create(WireContext.java:437)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.get(WireContext.java:417)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.get(WireContext.java:327)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.get(WireContext.java:688)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.env.BasicEnvironment.get(BasicEnvironment.java:139)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.env.BasicEnvironment.get(BasicEnvironment.java:130)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.env.EnvironmentImpl.getFromCurrent(EnvironmentImpl.java:201)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.env.EnvironmentImpl.getFromCurrent(EnvironmentImpl.java:190)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.cmd.CheckDbCmd.execute(CheckDbCmd.java:44)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.svc.DefaultCommandService.execute(DefaultCommandService.java:42)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.tx.StandardTransactionInterceptor.execute(StandardTransactionInterceptor.java:54)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.svc.EnvironmentInterceptor.executeInNewEnvironment(EnvironmentInterceptor.java:53)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.svc.EnvironmentInterceptor.execute(EnvironmentInterceptor.java:40)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.svc.RetryInterceptor.execute(RetryInterceptor.java:55)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.svc.SkipInterceptor.execute(SkipInterceptor.java:43)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.processengine.ProcessEngineImpl.checkDb(ProcessEngineImpl.java:152)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.processengine.ProcessEngineImpl.&lt;init&gt;(ProcessEngineImpl.java:105)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.cfg.ConfigurationImpl.buildProcessEngine(ConfigurationImpl.java:94)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.api.Configuration.getProcessEngine(Configuration.java:121)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.test.JbpmTestCase.initialize(JbpmTestCase.java:83)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.test.JbpmTestCase.setUp(JbpmTestCase.java:78)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.examples.async.activity.AsyncActivityTest.setUp(AsyncActivityTest.java:38)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at junit.framework.TestCase.runBare(TestCase.java:128)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at junit.framework.TestResult$1.protect(TestResult.java:106)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at junit.framework.TestResult.runProtected(TestResult.java:124)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at junit.framework.TestResult.run(TestResult.java:109)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at junit.framework.TestCase.run(TestCase.java:120)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at junit.framework.TestSuite.runTest(TestSuite.java:230)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at junit.framework.TestSuite.run(TestSuite.java:225)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.junit3.JUnit3TestReference.run(JUnit3TestReference.java:130)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.TestExecution.run(TestExecution.java:38)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:467)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:683)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:390)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:197)</div><div id="_mcePaste">Caused by: org.jbpm.api.JbpmException: couldn't construct new 'org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration' with args null</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.util.ReflectUtil.newInstance(ReflectUtil.java:117)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.util.ReflectUtil.newInstance(ReflectUtil.java:88)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.descriptor.HibernateConfigurationDescriptor.construct(HibernateConfigurationDescriptor.java:62)</div><div id="_mcePaste">... 53 more</div><div id="_mcePaste">Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException</div><div id="_mcePaste">at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.util.ReflectUtil.newInstance(ReflectUtil.java:114)</div><div id="_mcePaste">... 55 more</div><div id="_mcePaste">Caused by: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.reset(Configuration.java:201)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.&lt;init&gt;(Configuration.java:220)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.&lt;init&gt;(Configuration.java:224)</div><div id="_mcePaste">... 60 more</div><div id="_mcePaste">Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.hibernate.util.ConfigHelper.getResourceAsStream(ConfigHelper.java:167)</div><div id="_mcePaste">at org.hibernate.cfg.Environment.&lt;clinit&gt;(Environment.java:558)</div><div id="_mcePaste">... 63 more</div><div id="_mcePaste">### EXCEPTION ###########################################</div><div> </div><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Can any one help me in understanding and solving this exception ?</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>-Regards,</p><p>Chaitanya Desai</p></div>

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