org/jboss/logging/BasicLogger: Hibernate Error Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jboss/logging/BasicLogger

Hibernate Error Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jboss/logging/BasicLogger

The following exception is being thrown due to missing of the library jboss-logging-3.1.0.GA.jar.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jboss/logging/BasicLogger

       at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)

       at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:800)

       at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)

       at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:449)

       at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:71)

       at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:361)

       at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)

       at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)

       at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)

       at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425)

       at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)

       at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)

       at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.<clinit>(Configuration.java:176)

       at com.hibernate.utils.HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory(HibernateUtil.java:15)

       at com.hibernate.application.RunApplication.main(RunApplication.java:16)

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jboss.logging.BasicLogger

       at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366)

       at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)

       at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)

       at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)

       at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425)

       at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)

       at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)

       ... 15 more

Solution:

Download the library jboss-logging-3.1.0.GA.jar and add it to the class path as shown below:

Or

Add the dependency in Maven’s pom.xml

<dependency>

      <groupId>jboss-logging</groupId>

      <artifactId>jboss-logging</artifactId>

      <version>3.1.0</version>

</dependency>

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