Undecipherable exception reported with incomplete hibernate.cfg.xml ------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-3039 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-3039 Project: Hibernate3 Issue Type: Improvement Components: core Affects Versions: 3.2.5 Environment: hibernate 3.2.5 apache derby 10.3 Reporter: Matthias Haack Priority: Minor Attachments: hibernate.cfg.xml While loading the hibernate.cfg.xml file the following log was created: 29.12.2007 20:49:46 org.hibernate.cfg.Environment <clinit> INFO: Hibernate 3.2.5 29.12.2007 20:49:46 org.hibernate.cfg.Environment <clinit> INFO: hibernate.properties not found 29.12.2007 20:49:46 org.hibernate.cfg.Environment buildBytecodeProvider INFO: Bytecode provider name : cglib 29.12.2007 20:49:46 org.hibernate.cfg.Environment <clinit> INFO: using JDK 1.4 java.sql.Timestamp handling 29.12.2007 20:49:46 org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration configure INFO: configuring from resource: /hibernate.cfg.xml 29.12.2007 20:49:46 org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration getConfigurationInputStream INFO: Configuration resource: /hibernate.cfg.xml Initial SessionFactory creation failed.java.lang.NullPointerException No hint given what caused the exception. Turned out to be there is no special handling is implemented in class org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration at line 1529. This happens while calling "new Configuration().configure().buildSessionFactory();" on the attached configuration file; this file if course is not correct (it's a mapping file, not a config file). Proper error reporting would help the end user. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/secure/Administrators.... - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira