Need to check Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader() in ConfigHelper ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-986 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-986 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 3.1 beta 2 Environment: Hibernate 3.1 b3, maven Reporter: Alexander Borovsky Assignee: Gavin King Priority: Critical Fix For: 3.1 rc 1 Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader() is null when I generate schema from maven, And I get NullPointerException, in configuration initialization