I'm converting my Hibernate persistence layer to use annotations, but when I deploy the app I get the following mysterious error:
The error doesn't tell me exactly where the problem is, but I gather that it's most likely associated with one of several many-to-many relationships to the User class. Here is one of those getUser() methods with the associated annotation:Code:org.hibernate.MappingException: Could not determine type for: java.util.Set, for columns: [org.hibernate.mapping.Column(users)] at org.hibernate.mapping.SimpleValue.getType(SimpleValue.java:266) at org.hibernate.mapping.SimpleValue.isValid(SimpleValue.java:253) at org.hibernate.mapping.Property.isValid(Property.java:185) at org.hibernate.mapping.PersistentClass.validate(PersistentClass.java:440) at org.hibernate.mapping.RootClass.validate(RootClass.java:192) at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.validate(Configuration.java:1102) at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1287) at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration.buildSessionFactory(AnnotationConfiguration.java:915) at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean.newSessionFactory(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:825) at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:751) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1091) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:396) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:233) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:145) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:186) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveValueIfNecessary(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:106) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyPropertyValues(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1046) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:857) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:378) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:233) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:145) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:186) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveValueIfNecessary(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:106) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyPropertyValues(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1046) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:857) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:378) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:233) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:145) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:186) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveValueIfNecessary(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:106) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyPropertyValues(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1046) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:857) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:378) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:233) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:145) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:186) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveValueIfNecessary(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:106) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyPropertyValues(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1046) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:857) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:378) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:233) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:145) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.getBeansOfType(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:211) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.getBeansOfType(AbstractApplicationContext.java:596) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.registerListeners(AbstractApplicationContext.java:478) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:310) at org.springframework.web.context.support.AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.java:139) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:246) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:184) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:49) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3729) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4187) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:759) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:739) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:524) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:809) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:698) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1122) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:310) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1021) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:718) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1013) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:442) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:450) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:709) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:551) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:294) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:432)
This annotation was generated by hbm2java. I'm very new to annotations, but can anyone more experienced see anything wrong? Am I looking in the right place?Code:@ManyToMany(fetch=FetchType.EAGER) @JoinTable(name="reservation_user", joinColumns = { @JoinColumn(name="reservation_key", nullable=false, updatable=false) }, inverseJoinColumns = { @JoinColumn(name="user_key", nullable=false, updatable=false) }) @Cascade( {CascadeType.SAVE_UPDATE} ) public Set<User> getUsers() { if (users == null){ users = new HashSet<User>(); } return users; }


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