Hibernate java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.persistence.Cacheable

[David Mbura]

Hello guys
I am working on a basic application with Hibernate 3.5,i m using JPA Annotations.I use Eclipse and everything running on jdk 1.6_u21.
Jar files from Hibernate are as follows


Hibernate3.jar
antlr
commons-collections
dom4j
javaassist
jta
slf4j
cglib
hibernate-annotations
ejb3-persistence
hibernate-common-annotations
log4j
slf4j-log4j12

and i am getting this exception

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/persistence/Cacheable
	at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationBinder.determineCacheSettings(AnnotationBinder.java:953)
	at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationBinder.bindClass(AnnotationBinder.java:596)
	at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration.processArtifactsOfType(AnnotationConfiguration.java:636)
	at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration.secondPassCompile(AnnotationConfiguration.java:359)
	at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.generateDropSchemaScript(Configuration.java:838)
	at org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExport.<init>(SchemaExport.java:128)
	at org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExport.<init>(SchemaExport.java:91)
	at com.hibernate.test1.Test.main(Test.java:16)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.persistence.Cacheable
	at 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)
	... 8 more
    

Thank you in advance

[dominic steward]

I had same problem.
got it solved when i used hibernate-jpa-2.0-api-1.0.0.Final found at hibernate-distribution-3.5.3-Final\lib\jpa.
PS:i was using JPA (javax.persistence.Entity) annotation

[David Mbura]

Thanks dominic, it worked,i appreciate it!

[jatinkumar patel]

Thanks Dominic it Helped.

[Amri Firdaus]

thanks Dominic...it helped n it realy worked

[Vinicius Alves]

thanks dominic , it worked perfectly !

[Keertiraj Patil]

Thanks Dominic. It worked for me.

[Roger Pack]

This *might* have been fixed by not deploying two separate conflicting versions of hibernate-annotations or commons jar. Maybe, I'm not sure.

[Dilruk Perera]

Thanks dominic It really works so any body with this same problem can try dis out