Hibernate buildSessionFactory() Exception

Question

I have a serious problem with hibernate. I followed various books und online tutorials, but I ever get the same Exception \"ExceptionInInitializerError\" obviously thrown by

Answer 1

I ran into this problem once before. I eventually discovered that adding a non-annotated method to the entity where annotations are decorating the getter methods, gets you in this situation. If you make the annotations around the fields rather than the getter methods, then you can have extra unmapped methods.