hibernate.cfg.xml is not picked up by Seam

[vanyatka]

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to setup maven based seam application following the instructions kindly provided here:

Creating a JBoss Seam application

Beside the mentioned configuration I added maven-jetty-plugin into pom.xml, in order to test the application with jetty:run command.

However, when I run the application, I get the following error:

2010-10-20 21:55:21.995:WARN::Failed startup of context org.mortbay.jetty.plugin.Jetty6PluginWebAppContext@44efdd58{/MyCMS,/Users/xman/Store/src/main/webapp}
org.jboss.seam.InstantiationException: Could not instantiate Seam component: hibernateSessionFactory
     at org.jboss.seam.Component.newInstance(Component.java:1986)
     at org.jboss.seam.contexts.Contexts.startup(Contexts.java:304)
     at org.jboss.seam.contexts.Contexts.startup(Contexts.java:278)
     at org.jboss.seam.contexts.ServletLifecycle.endInitialization(ServletLifecycle.java:95)

It seems like hibernate.cfg.xml is not seen by Seam, even though it resides in the /resources dir of the webapp.

Can anyone suggest any hints why this might happen?

Thanks!

[vanyatka]

During racking my brains for almost the whole day crawling to the root of this problem I suspected many things.
However, the solution turned out to be missing slf4j-log4j dependency in maven :)

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
            <version>1.5.8</version>
        </dependency>

How did I find this? Put a break point into org.jboss.seam.persistence.HibernateSessionFactory, and discovered that Hibernate did not bootstap properly without this lib and the real exception had been swallowed. What a shame )

Anyway, I'm happy now )
Wish everyone not to come across similar weird issues )