Hibernate Dependency Library Exception (Commons Annotations) : org/hibernate/annotations/common/reflection/MetadataProvider

If you miss the Hibernate commons annotations library hibernate-commons-annotations-4.0.4.Final.jar, then you would get java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/hibernate/annotations/common/reflection/MetadataProvider exception.

[code lang=”xml”]
<dependency>
<groupId>hibernate-commons-annotations</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-commons-annotations</artifactId>
<version>4.0.4.GA</version>
</dependency>

<repositories>
<repository>
<id>JBoss repository</id>
<url>http://repository.jboss.com/maven2/</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
[/code]

Exception Trace

[code]
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/hibernate/annotations/common/reflection/MetadataProvider
at javabeat.net.hibernate.HibernateUtil.main(HibernateUtil.java:12)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.hibernate.annotations.common.reflection.MetadataProvider
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
[/code]