org.hibernate.MappingException: Unknown entity: annotations.Users

Question

Consider the hierarchy :

And the following classes and xml :

Answer 1

If you are using 5.0x version,configuration with standard service registry is deprecated.

Instead you should bootstrap it with Metadata: In your HibernateUtil class, you should add

private static SessionFactory buildSessionFactory() {
    try {           
        StandardServiceRegistry standardRegistry = new StandardServiceRegistryBuilder()
            .configure( "hibernate.cfg.xml" )
            .build();

        Metadata metadata = new MetadataSources( standardRegistry )
            .getMetadataBuilder()
            .build();

        return metadata.getSessionFactoryBuilder().build();
    } catch(...) {
        ...
    }
}