Hello. I'm trying to get Hibernate to work without an app server, but I'm having a lot of problems and I really fail to see how this couldn't work. I really need this to work so I can test my service layer without using the app server (since that's just a pain and I refuse to do that :/)

Here is the exception I get when I run my test case:

java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at cirrus.hibernate.Hibernate.<clinit>(Hibernate.java:35)
at com.egervari.website.test.services.WebpageServiceTest.setUp(WebpageServiceTest.java:27)
at junit.framework.TestCase.runBare(TestCase.java:125)
at junit.framework.TestResult$1.protect(TestResult.java:106)
at junit.framework.TestResult.runProtected(TestResult.java:124)
at junit.framework.TestResult.run(TestResult.java:109)
at junit.framework.TestCase.run(TestCase.java:118)
at junit.framework.TestSuite.runTest(TestSuite.java:208)
at junit.framework.TestSuite.run(TestSuite.java:203)
at junit.framework.TestSuite.runTest(TestSuite.java:208)
at junit.framework.TestSuite.run(TestSuite.java:203)
at junit.swingui.TestRunner$16.run(TestRunner.java:623)
Caused by: org.apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException: org.apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException: org.apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException: Class org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4JCategoryLog does not implement Log
at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.newInstance(LogFactoryImpl.java:555)
at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.getInstance(LogFactoryImpl.java:289)
at org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.getLog(LogFactory.java:409)
at cirrus.hibernate.type.NullableType.<clinit>(NullableType.java:22)
... 12 more
Caused by: org.apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException: org.apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException: Class org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4JCategoryLog does not implement Log
at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.getLogConstructor(LogFactoryImpl.java:420)
at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.newInstance(LogFactoryImpl.java:548)
... 15 more
Caused by: org.apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException: Class org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4JCategoryLog does not implement Log
at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.getLogConstructor(LogFactoryImpl.java:416)
... 16 more

Here is the code I'm using the initialize hibernate. The configuration is all there and I've been using Hibernate for a long time with Resin, so that just makes this even harder to fix :/

    protected void setUp() {
        try {
            //Hibernate.configure(); (I've tried both)
            Datastore ds = Hibernate.createDatastore();
            ds.storeFile( "d:/java/com.egervari.website/etc/hibernate/All.hbm.xml" );
            SessionFactory factory = ds.buildSessionFactory();

            DriverManager.registerDriver( new com.mysql.jdbc.Driver() );
            Connection connection = DriverManager.getConnection( "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/egervari",
                "root", "password" );

            Session session = factory.openSession( connection );
            HibernateGateway hibernateSession = new HibernateGateway( session );

            service = new WebpageService( hibernateSession );
        } catch( HibernateException e ) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch( SQLException e ) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch( java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError e ) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

Hi there I'm having the same problem. Did you find a solution for this?

Many thanks,
Max

I could get rid of this error message when I changed the jars in the build path to their respective latest versions. Hope it would solve your issue too