Could not parse configuration: /hibernate.cfg.xml exception

Question

I am trying to run an application on my system . I have been told to Edit the "hibernate.cfg.xml" and provide the security credentials that I provided during the MySQL installation. These should go in:

 <property name="hibernate.connection.username">USER_NAME</property>
 <property name="hibernate.connection.password">PASSWORD</property>

I have done these settings properly. ANd when I run my application I get "Could not parse configuration: /hibernate.cfg.xml" error.

BElow is my hibernate.cfg.xml file.

   <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration
    PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD//EN"
    "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">

<!--
Endeavour Agile ALM
Copyright (C) 2009  Ezequiel Cuellar

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-->
<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory>

    <property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</property>
    <property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost/endeavour</property>
    <property name="hibernate.connection.username">root</property>
    <property name="hibernate.connection.password">dianita</property>

    <property name="hibernate.c3p0.min_size">5</property>
    <property name="hibernate.c3p0.max_size">20</property>
    <property name="hibernate.c3p0.timeout">300</property>
    <property name="hibernate.c3p0.max_statements">50</property>
    <property name="hibernate.c3p0.idle_test_period">3000</property>
    <property name="connection.provider_class">org.hibernate.connection.C3P0ConnectionProvider</property>

    <!-- SQL to stdout logging
    <property name="show_sql">true</property>
    <property name="format_sql">true</property>
    <property name="use_sql_comments">true</property>
    -->

    <property name="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</property>

    <mapping resource="org/endeavour/mgmt/model/ProjectMember.hbm.xml"/>
    <mapping resource="org/endeavour/mgmt/model/Project.hbm.xml"/>
    <mapping resource="org/endeavour/mgmt/model/Iteration.hbm.xml"/>
    <mapping resource="org/endeavour/mgmt/model/WorkProduct.hbm.xml"/>
    <mapping resource="org/endeavour/mgmt/model/TestCase.hbm.xml"/>
    <mapping resource="org/endeavour/mgmt/model/TestPlan.hbm.xml"/>
    <mapping resource="org/endeavour/mgmt/model/TestRun.hbm.xml"/>
    <mapping resource="org/endeavour/mgmt/model/Document.hbm.xml"/>
    <mapping resource="org/endeavour/mgmt/model/Version.hbm.xml"/>
    <mapping resource="org/endeavour/mgmt/model/Defect.hbm.xml"/>
    <mapping resource="org/endeavour/mgmt/model/Task.hbm.xml"/>
    <mapping resource="org/endeavour/mgmt/model/Dependency.hbm.xml"/>
    <mapping resource="org/endeavour/mgmt/model/ChangeRequest.hbm.xml"/>
    <mapping resource="org/endeavour/mgmt/model/UseCase.hbm.xml"/>
    <mapping resource="org/endeavour/mgmt/model/Actor.hbm.xml"/>
    <mapping resource="org/endeavour/mgmt/model/Event.hbm.xml"/>
    <mapping resource="org/endeavour/mgmt/model/Attachment.hbm.xml"/>
    <mapping resource="org/endeavour/mgmt/model/Comment.hbm.xml"/>
    <mapping resource="org/endeavour/mgmt/model/GlossaryTerm.hbm.xml"/>
    <mapping resource="org/endeavour/mgmt/model/SecurityGroup.hbm.xml"/>
    <mapping resource="org/endeavour/mgmt/model/Privilege.hbm.xml"/>

</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

Here is the error I am geeting:

org.hibernate.HibernateException: Could not parse configuration: /hibernate.cfg.xml
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.doConfigure(Configuration.java:1528)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.configure(Configuration.java:1462)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.configure(Configuration.java:1448)
at org.endeavour.mgmt.model.persistence.SessionFactoryManager.<init>(SessionFactoryManager.java:38)
at org.endeavour.mgmt.model.persistence.SessionFactoryManager.getInstance(SessionFactoryManager.java:43)
at org.endeavour.mgmt.model.persistence.PersistenceManager.beginTransaction(PersistenceManager.java:52)
at org.endeavour.mgmt.controller.ApplicationController.startUnitOfWork(ApplicationController.java:45)
at org.endeavour.mgmt.view.LoginView.login(LoginView.java:132)
at org.endeavour.mgmt.view.LoginView.actionPerformed(LoginView.java:126)
at thinwire.ui.EventListenerImpl.fireEvent(EventListenerImpl.java:313)
at thinwire.ui.EventListenerImpl.fireAction(EventListenerImpl.java:245)
at thinwire.ui.AbstractComponent.fireAction(AbstractComponent.java:222)
at thinwire.ui.Button.fireAction(Button.java:1)
at thinwire.render.web.ComponentRenderer.componentChange(ComponentRenderer.java:375)
at thinwire.render.web.EventProcessor.processUserActionEvent(EventProcessor.java:129)
at thinwire.render.web.EventProcessor.run(EventProcessor.java:85)
Caused by: org.dom4j.DocumentException: org.dom4j.DocumentFactory cannot be cast to org.dom4j.DocumentFactory Nested       exception: org.dom4j.DocumentFactory cannot be cast to org.dom4j.DocumentFactory
at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:484)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.doConfigure(Configuration.java:1518)
... 15 more
  org.dom4j.DocumentException: org.dom4j.DocumentFactory cannot be cast to org.dom4j.DocumentFactory Nested          exception: org.dom4j.DocumentFactory cannot be cast to org.dom4j.DocumentFactory
at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:484)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.doConfigure(Configuration.java:1518)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.configure(Configuration.java:1462)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.configure(Configuration.java:1448)
at org.endeavour.mgmt.model.persistence.SessionFactoryManager.<init>(SessionFactoryManager.java:38)
at org.endeavour.mgmt.model.persistence.SessionFactoryManager.getInstance(SessionFactoryManager.java:43)
at org.endeavour.mgmt.model.persistence.PersistenceManager.beginTransaction(PersistenceManager.java:52)
at org.endeavour.mgmt.controller.ApplicationController.startUnitOfWork(ApplicationController.java:45)
at org.endeavour.mgmt.view.LoginView.login(LoginView.java:132)
at org.endeavour.mgmt.view.LoginView.actionPerformed(LoginView.java:126)
at thinwire.ui.EventListenerImpl.fireEvent(EventListenerImpl.java:313)
at thinwire.ui.EventListenerImpl.fireAction(EventListenerImpl.java:245)
at thinwire.ui.AbstractComponent.fireAction(AbstractComponent.java:222)
at thinwire.ui.Button.fireAction(Button.java:1)
at thinwire.render.web.ComponentRenderer.componentChange(ComponentRenderer.java:375)
at thinwire.render.web.EventProcessor.processUserActionEvent(EventProcessor.java:129)
at thinwire.render.web.EventProcessor.run(EventProcessor.java:85)
Nested exception: 
java.lang.ClassCastException: org.dom4j.DocumentFactory cannot be cast to org.dom4j.DocumentFactory
at org.dom4j.DocumentFactory.getInstance(DocumentFactory.java:97)
at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.getDocumentFactory(SAXReader.java:645)
at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.createContentHandler(SAXReader.java:969)
at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:449)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.doConfigure(Configuration.java:1518)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.configure(Configuration.java:1462)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.configure(Configuration.java:1448)
at org.endeavour.mgmt.model.persistence.SessionFactoryManager.<init>(SessionFactoryManager.java:38)
at org.endeavour.mgmt.model.persistence.SessionFactoryManager.getInstance(SessionFactoryManager.java:43)
at org.endeavour.mgmt.model.persistence.PersistenceManager.beginTransaction(PersistenceManager.java:52)
at org.endeavour.mgmt.controller.ApplicationController.startUnitOfWork(ApplicationController.java:45)
at org.endeavour.mgmt.view.LoginView.login(LoginView.java:132)
at org.endeavour.mgmt.view.LoginView.actionPerformed(LoginView.java:126)
at thinwire.ui.EventListenerImpl.fireEvent(EventListenerImpl.java:313)
at thinwire.ui.EventListenerImpl.fireAction(EventListenerImpl.java:245)
at thinwire.ui.AbstractComponent.fireAction(AbstractComponent.java:222)
at thinwire.ui.Button.fireAction(Button.java:1)
at thinwire.render.web.ComponentRenderer.componentChange(ComponentRenderer.java:375)
at thinwire.render.web.EventProcessor.processUserActionEvent(EventProcessor.java:129)
at thinwire.render.web.EventProcessor.run(EventProcessor.java:85)

PLease can any one help in solving this problem.

Thanks

possible duplicate of [Could not parse - org.dom4j.DocumentException: org.dom4j.DocumentFactory cannot be cast to org.dom4j.DocumentFactory](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1804285/could-not-parse-org-dom4j-documentexception-org-dom4j-documentfactory-cannot) — Don Roby, May 28 '14 at 10:44

Vlad Mihalcea · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-28T10:55:00.070

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java.lang.ClassCastException: org.dom4j.DocumentFactory cannot be cast to org.dom4j.DocumentFactory

This is because you have two versions of dom4j in your class-path.

If you're using Maven than you could run:

mvn dependency:tree

to figure out what dependencies are adding two dom4j jars in your class path.

Otherwise check your application specific lib folder and look for two dom4j versions.

edited May 28 '14 at 10:55

answered May 28 '14 at 10:47

Vlad Mihalcea

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Thanks for the reply. I am not using maven. I have only one dom4j in my lib folder. – galme May 28 '14 at 10:54
Are you deploying on some application server? Because some AS have global libs that may be shared among multiple deployed apps. – Vlad Mihalcea May 28 '14 at 10:56
I have basically got the code from SVN , configured it with Eclipse along with tomcat 7 . I started tomcat on eclipse and ran the application in browser. After I give login credentials, I am getting this exception. – galme May 28 '14 at 11:02
If there is no dom4j in tomcat/libs and you have only one dom4j in {app}/WEB-INF/lib than maybe it's related to eclipse. Try a manual deploy on a separate tomcat and see if it's working. – Vlad Mihalcea May 28 '14 at 11:13
Yes it should be some problem with the eclipse. I deployed on seperate tomcat and its working. Thanks :) – galme May 29 '14 at 06:38
I am glad you figured it out. Probably you got an extra dom4j dependency from Eclipse. – Vlad Mihalcea May 29 '14 at 06:48

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