Initial SessionFactory creation failed.java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/persistence/EntityListeners

While working with hibernate  this error can be faced. This is because absence of ‘hibernate-jpa-2.0-api-x.x.x.Final.jar’ in your classpath. Initial SessionFactory creation failed.java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/persistence/EntityListenersException in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerErrorat hibernate.HibernateUtil.buildSessionFactory(HibernateUtil.java:18)at hibernate.HibernateUtil.<clinit>(HibernateUtil.java:8)at driver.Driver.main(Driver.java:14)Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/persistence/EntityListenersat org.hibernate.cfg.annotations.reflection.JPAMetadataProvider.getDefaults(JPAMetadataProvider.java:96)at org.hibernate.annotations.common.reflection.java.JavaReflectionManager.getDefaults(JavaReflectionManager.java:226)at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.secondPassCompile(Configuration.java:1385)at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1856)at hibernate.HibernateUtil.buildSessionFactory(HibernateUtil.java:15)... 2 moreCaused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.persistence.EntityListenersat java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)... 7 more What is Hibernate […]Image may be NSFW.
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