Hi Fellas,

i am writing a spring portlet which uses hibernate 4.x for the persistence. but when i deploy that into tomcat i am getting the following error. i dont know why it is refering to org.hibernate.util.dtdentity resolver which is hibernate 3.x specific.

here is my configurations

Maven POM.

<dependencies>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-expression</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context-support</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-jdbc</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-oxm</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc-portlet</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
<artifactId>h2</artifactId>
<version>1.3.170</version>
</dependency>

<!-- Hibernate -->

<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
<version>4.2.0.CR1</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
<version>4.2.0.CR1</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-ehcache</artifactId>
<version>4.2.0.CR1</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-c3p0</artifactId>
<version>4.2.0.CR1</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-envers</artifactId>
<version>4.2.0.CR1</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>net.sf.dozer</groupId>
<artifactId>dozer</artifactId>
<version>5.4.0</version>
</dependency>


<!-- Test -->
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.7</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>

and here is m spring conf

<contextroperty-placeholder location="/WEB-INF/database.properties" />



<utilroperties id="hibernateProperties">
<prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.H2Di alect</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.format_sql">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.order_updates">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.generate_statistics">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.use_sql_comments">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.connection.isolation">2</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">validate</prop>
</utilroperties>

<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager"/>

<bean id="transactionManager"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.Hibernat eTransactionManager">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
</bean>

<bean id="sessionFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSes sionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"></property>
<property name="annotatedClasses">
<list>
<value>com.cisco.prime.dataobject.UserDO</value>
</list>
</property>

</bean>

<bean id="dataSource" class="com.mchange.v2.c3p0.ComboPooledDataSource"
destroy-method="close">
<property name="driverClass" value="${jdbc.driverClassName}" />
<property name="jdbcUrl" value="${jdbc.url}" />
<property name="user" value="${jdbc.username}" />
<property name="password" value="${jdbc.password}" />
<!-- these are C3P0 properties -->
<property name="acquireIncrement" value="${c3p0.acquireIncrement}" />
<property name="minPoolSize" value="${c3p0.minPoolSize}" />
<property name="maxPoolSize" value="${c3p0.maxPoolSize}" />
<property name="maxIdleTime" value="${c3p0.maxIdleTime}" />
</bean>

Error log

Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/hibernate/util/DTDEntityResolver
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader. java:631)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java :615)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Secure ClassLoader.java:141)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findC lassInternal(WebappClassLoader.java:2889)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findC lass(WebappClassLoader.java:1170)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadC lass(WebappClassLoader.java:1678)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadC lass(WebappClassLoader.java:1556)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.reset(Configuratio n.java:326)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.<init>(Configurati on.java:265)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.<init>(Configurati on.java:269)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFac toryBuilder.<init>(LocalSessionFactoryBuilder.java :102)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFac toryBean.afterPropertiesSet(LocalSessionFactoryBea n.java:259)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.Abstract AutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(Abstr actAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1514)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.Abstract AutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(Abstract AutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1452)
... 65 more

could u please help me resolving the issue?