hibernate.properties (i am using xml) not found

Question

i am new to hibernate. when i instantiate the session factory, i get the error

INFO: HHH000206: hibernate.properties not found

but hibernate.cfg.xml is at the root of src.

here is how i try to instantiate it:

SessionFactory hbrntFctry;
    Session rslt = null;
    ServiceRegistry serviceRegistry = new ServiceRegistryBuilder().configure().buildServiceRegistry();

    try
    { 
        hbrntFctry = new Configuration().configure().buildSessionFactory(serviceRegistry);
        rslt = hbrntFctry.openSession();
    }
    catch (Throwable ex) 
    { 
        System.err.println("Failed to create sessionFactory object." + ex); 
        throw new ExceptionInInitializerError(ex); 
    }

but then it says:

Exception in thread "main" org.hibernate.internal.util.config.ConfigurationException: Unable to perform unmarshalling at line number 4 and column 26 in RESOURCE hibernate.cfg.xml. Message: cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element 'hibernate-configuration'. at org.hibernate.service.internal.JaxbProcessor.unmarshal(JaxbProcessor.java:120) at org.hibernate.service.internal.JaxbProcessor.unmarshal(JaxbProcessor.java:69) at org.hibernate.service.ServiceRegistryBuilder.configure(ServiceRegistryBuilder.java:162) at org.hibernate.service.ServiceRegistryBuilder.configure(ServiceRegistryBuilder.java:147) at com.foampile.collect.UsgsRetriever.openHibernateSession(UsgsRetriever.java:250) at com.foampile.collect.UsgsRetriever.getStateGauges(UsgsRetriever.java:78) at com.foampile.base.MainApp.main(MainApp.java:22) Caused by: javax.xml.bind.UnmarshalException - with linked exception: [org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 4; columnNumber: 26; cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element 'hibernate-configuration'.] at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.UnmarshallerImpl.handleStreamException(UnmarshallerImpl.java:419) at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.UnmarshallerImpl.unmarshal0(UnmarshallerImpl.java:356) at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.UnmarshallerImpl.unmarshal(UnmarshallerImpl.java:326) at org.hibernate.service.internal.JaxbProcessor.unmarshal(JaxbProcessor.java:108) ... 6 more Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 4; columnNumber: 26; cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element 'hibernate-configuration'. at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:198) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.error(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:134) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:437) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:368) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:325) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator.handleStartElement(XMLSchemaValidator.java:1897) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator.startElement(XMLSchemaValidator.java:737) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.validation.ValidatorHandlerImpl.startElement(ValidatorHandlerImpl.java:564) at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.ValidatingUnmarshaller.startElement(ValidatingUnmarshaller.java:86) at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.InterningXmlVisitor.startElement(InterningXmlVisitor.java:60) at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.StAXStreamConnector.handleStartElement(StAXStreamConnector.java:232) at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.StAXStreamConnector.bridge(StAXStreamConnector.java:166) at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.UnmarshallerImpl.unmarshal0(UnmarshallerImpl.java:354) ... 8 more

here is my cfg file:

<hibernate-configuration xmlns="http://www.hibernate.org/xsd/hibernate-configuration">

<session-factory> 

    <property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</property> 
    <property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</property> 
    <!-- Assume test is the database name --> 
    <property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost/foampile</property> 
    <property name="hibernate.connection.username">root</property> 
    <property name="hibernate.connection.password"></property> 
    <!-- List of XML mapping files --> 

    <mapping resource="SiteRecord.hbm.xml"/>

</session-factory> 

Answer 1

There is an error in your hibernate.cfg.xml file. </hibernate-configuration> is missing.

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
    "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD//EN"
    "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">

<hibernate-configuration>
    <session-factory>
       ...
    </session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>