Class that bean class [org.springframework.orm.hibernate.HibernateTemplate] depends on not found; nested exception is java.lang.NoClasse.HibernateTemplate] depends on not found; nested exception is java.lang.NoClass ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-2856 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-2856 Project: Hibernate3 Issue Type: New Feature Environment: Hibernate v3.2.0, Spring, HSQLDB Reporter: chandra sekhar Original Estimate: 3 days Remaining Estimate: 3 days Hi, I'm using Hibernate v3.2.0 integrated with Spring framework. I'm trying to access through HibernateTemplate(org.springframework.orm.hibernate.HibernateTemplate) for which i've mentioned a bean in my spring-servlet.xml as below. <bean id="hibernateTemplate" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate.HibernateTemplate"> <property name="sessionFactory"> <ref bean="sessionFactory"/> </property> </bean> i've deployed this application on tomcat and when i restart the tomcat server. the following error is coming. org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Error registering bean with name 'hibernateTemplate' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/employee-servlet.xml]: Class that bean class org.springframework.orm.hibernate.HibernateTemplate] depends on not found; nested exception is java.lang.NoClass DefFoundError: net/sf/hibernate/HibernateException java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/sf/hibernate/HibernateException what i found out was HibernateException class is present in or/hibernate package in hibernate3.jar. Can anyone please help me out of this?