Need help with Hibernate? Read this first:
http://www.hibernate.org/ForumMailingli ... AskForHelp

Hibernate version:3.3.1

Mapping documents:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">

<hibernate-mapping>
<class name="HibernateExample.Color" table="color">

<id name="id">
<generator class="native"/>
</id>
<property name="color"/>

</class>
</hibernate-mapping>

Code between sessionFactory.openSession() and session.close():
public Main()
{
Session session = HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession();

session.beginTransaction();

Vector<Color> colors = new Vector<Color>(session.createQuery("from Color").list());

for (Color c : colors)
{
//if (c.getColor().equals("red"))
//{
// c.setColor("redish");
// session.update(c);
//}
System.out.println(c.getId() + " , " + c.getColor());
}

session.getTransaction().commit();

HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory().close();



}

}

Full stack trace of any exception that occurs:
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.hibernate.cfg.Environment).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
Initial SessionFactory creation failed.org.hibernate.MappingException: An AnnotationConfiguration instance is required to use <mapping class="HibernateExample/Color"/>
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at HibernateExample.utils.HibernateUtil.<clinit>(HibernateUtil.java:17)
at HibernateExample.Main.<init>(Main.java:23)
at HibernateExample.Main.main(Main.java:17)
Caused by: org.hibernate.MappingException: An AnnotationConfiguration instance is required to use <mapping class="HibernateExample/Color"/>
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.parseMappingElement(Configuration.java:1600)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.parseSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1555)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.doConfigure(Configuration.java:1534)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.doConfigure(Configuration.java:1508)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.configure(Configuration.java:1428)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.configure(Configuration.java:1414)
at HibernateExample.utils.HibernateUtil.<clinit>(HibernateUtil.java:13)
... 2 more


hibernate.cfg.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory name="">
<!-- Database connection settings -->
<property name="connection.driver_class">org.firebirdsql.jdbc.FBDriver</property>
<property name="connection.url">jdbc:firebirdsql://localhost/C:/Documents and Settings/James/Application Data/HK-Software/IBExpert/COLORS.fdb</property>
<property name="connection.username">sysdba</property>
<property name="connection.password">masterkey</property>
<!-- JDBC connection pool (use the built-in) -->
<property name="connection.pool_size">1</property>
<!-- SQL dialect -->
<property name="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect</property>
<!-- Enable Hibernate's automatic session context management -->
<property name="current_session_context_class">thread</property>
<!-- Disable the second-level cache -->
<property name="cache.provider_class">org.hibernate.cache.NoCacheProvider</property>
<!-- Echo all executed SQL to stdout -->
<property name="show_sql">true</property>
<!-- Drop and re-create the database schema on startup -->
<property name="hbm2ddl.auto">create</property>
<mapping resource="Color.hbm.xml"/>
<mapping class="HibernateExample/Color"/>
</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>



Name and version of the database you are using: firebird 2.1

The generated SQL (show_sql=true):

Debug level Hibernate log excerpt:


hello I am a noob, Im just trying to get a little demo going for a presentation. Im getting the above errors, saying that I need an annotation to use the mapping? I have a feeling I have just made a simple error. any help would be greatly appreciated.
thank you

Problems with Session and transaction handling?

Read this: http://hibernate.org/42.html