NoClassDefFoundError: org/hibernate/annotations/common/reflection/MetadataProvider

Question

I have the dependency defined in my pom.xml

    org.hibernate
    hibernate-commons-annot         


        

Answer 1

Apparently 3.3.0.ga was a 'mistake', had to update dependency to use 3.2.0.Final

        org.hibernate
        hibernate-commons-annotations
        3.2.0.Final
    

Source: https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/ANN-711