Hibernate Dependency Library Exception (JPA) : javax/persistence/SharedCacheMode

If you are developing hibernate application, you would encounter the following exception if you have not added the hibernate-jpa-2.1-api-1.0.0.Final.jar in your libraries. Lets see how you can get this JAR file.

[code lang=”xml”]
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate.javax.persistence</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-jpa-2.0-api</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0.Final</version>
</dependency>
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Exception Trace

[code]
INFO: HHH000041: Configured SessionFactory: null
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/persistence/SharedCacheMode
at org.hibernate.metamodel.source.internal.MetadataBuilderImpl$OptionsImpl.<init>(MetadataBuilderImpl.java:131)
at org.hibernate.metamodel.source.internal.MetadataBuilderImpl.<init>(MetadataBuilderImpl.java:88)
at org.hibernate.metamodel.source.internal.MetadataBuilderImpl.<init>(MetadataBuilderImpl.java:55)
at org.hibernate.metamodel.MetadataSources.<init>(MetadataSources.java:88)
at org.hibernate.metamodel.MetadataSources.<init>(MetadataSources.java:79)
at javabeat.net.hibernate.HibernateUtil.main(HibernateUtil.java:15)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.persistence.SharedCacheMode
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)
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