How to deal with exceptions of org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.xmlHelper...?
The exact exception I came across - Exception in thread “main” java.lang.IllegalAccessError: tried to access field org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.xmlHelper from class org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration.addInputStream(AnnotationConfiguration.java:712) at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.addResource(Configuration.java:481) at....... It simply means you got to check the compatibility of the hibernate jar files present in your lib folder for the project at hand. http://www.hibernate.org/30.html If there are incompatibilities, this error gets thrown... r-she-yeah