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...

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