[java] org.hibernate.MappingException: Unknown entity

I'm trying to work through Beginning Hibernate 2nd edition, and I'm stuck trying to put together the simple working example with HSQLDB.

When I run ant populateMessages, I get

[java] org.hibernate.MappingException: Unknown entity: sample.entity.Message
[java]     at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.ExecuteJava.execute(ExecuteJava.java:194)
[java]     at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Java.run(Java.java:747)
...

Here's what I've got:

Message.java

package sample.entity;

import org.hibernate.annotations.Entity;

import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.Table;

@Entity
public class Message
{
    private String messageText;
    private Integer id;

    public Message( String messageText )
    {
        this.messageText = messageText;
    }

    public Message()
    {
    }

    public String getMessageText()
    {
        return messageText;
    }

    public void setMessageText(String messageText)
    {
        this.messageText = messageText;
    }

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue
    public Integer getId()
    {
        return id;
    }

    public void setId(Integer id)
    {
        this.id = id;
    }
}

PopulateMessages.java

package sample;

import org.hibernate.Session;
import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
import org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration;
import org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration;
import sample.entity.Message;

import java.util.Date;

public class PopulateMessages
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        SessionFactory factory = new AnnotationConfiguration().configure().buildSessionFactory();
        Session session = factory.openSession();
        session.beginTransaction();

        Message m1 = new Message("Hibernated a  messages on " + new Date());
        session.save(m1);
        session.getTransaction().commit();
        session.close();
    }
}

build.properties

# Path to the hibernate install directory
hibernate.home=C:/hibernate/hibernate-3.5.6
# Path to the hibernate-tools install directory
hibernate.tools.home=C:/hibernate/hibernate-tools
# Path to hibernate-tools.jar relative to hibernate.tools.home
hibernate.tools.path=/plugins/org.hibernate.eclipse_3.3.1.v201006011046R-H111-GA/lib/tools
# Path to hibernate-tools hibernate libraries relative to hibernate.tools.home
hibernate.tools.lib.path=/plugins/org.hibernate.eclipse_3.3.1.v201006011046R-H111-GA/lib/hibernate
# Path to the SLF4J implementation JAR for the logging framework to use
slf4j.implementation.jar=lib/slf4j-simple-1.6.1.jar
# Path to the HSQL DB install directory
hsql.home=C:/hsqldb

hibernate.cfg.xml

<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
 "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN"
 "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory>
<property name="hibernate.connection.url">
jdbc:hsqldb:file:testdb;shutdown=true
</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">
org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver
</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.username">sa</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.password"></property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.pool_size">0</property>
<property name="hibernate.dialect">
org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect
</property>
<property name="hibernate.show_sql">false</property>
<!-- "Import" the mapping resources here -->
<mapping class="sample.entity.Message"/>
</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

build.xml

<project name="sample">
    <property file="build.properties"/>
    <property name="src" location="src"/>
    <property name="bin" location="bin"/>
    <property name="sql" location="sql"/>
    <property name="hibernate.tools"
              value="${hibernate.tools.home}${hibernate.tools.path}"/>
    <path id="classpath.base">
        <pathelement location="${src}"/>
        <pathelement location="${bin}"/>
        <pathelement location="${hibernate.home}/hibernate3.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="${slf4j.implementation.jar}"/>
        <fileset dir="${hibernate.home}/lib" includes="**/*.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="${hsql.home}/lib/hsqldb.jar"/>
  <fileset dir="./lib" includes="**/*.jar"/>
    </path>
<path id="classpath.tools">
    <path refid="classpath.base"/>
    <pathelement
            location="${hibernate.tools.home}/${hibernate.tools.lib.path}/commons-logging-1.0.4.jar"/>
    <pathelement
            location="${hibernate.tools}/freemarker.jar"/>
    <pathelement
            location="${hibernate.tools}/hibernate-tools.jar"/>
</path>
<taskdef name="htools"
         classname="org.hibernate.tool.ant.HibernateToolTask"
         classpathref="classpath.tools"/>
<target name="exportDDL" depends="compile">
    <mkdir dir="${sql}"/>
    <htools destdir="${sql}">
        <classpath refid="classpath.tools"/>
        <annotationconfiguration
                configurationfile="${src}/hibernate.cfg.xml"/>
        <hbm2ddl drop="true" outputfilename="sample.sql"/>
    </htools>
</target>
<target name="compile">
    <javac srcdir="${src}" destdir="${bin}" classpathref="classpath.base"/>
</target>
<target name="populateMessages" depends="compile">
    <java classname="sample.PopulateMessages" classpathref="classpath.base"/>
</target>
<target name="listMessages" depends="compile">
    <java classname="sample.ListMessages" classpathref="classpath.base"/>
</target>

Use below line of code in the case of Spring Boot Application Add in Spring Boot Main Class @EntityScan(basePackageClasses=YourClassName.class)

In hibernate.cfg.xml , please put following code

<mapping class="class/bo name"/>

My issue was resolved After adding
sessionFactory.setPackagesToScan( new String[] { "com.springhibernate.model" }); Tested this Functionality in spring boot latest version 2.1.2.

Full Method:

 @Bean( name="sessionFactoryConfig")
    public LocalSessionFactoryBean sessionFactoryConfig() {

        LocalSessionFactoryBean sessionFactory = new LocalSessionFactoryBean();

        sessionFactory.setDataSource(dataSourceConfig());
        sessionFactory.setPackagesToScan(
                new String[] { "com.springhibernate.model" });

        sessionFactory.setHibernateProperties(hibernatePropertiesConfig());

        return sessionFactory;
    }

You should call .addAnnotatedClass(Message.class) on your AnnotationConfiguration.

If you want your entities to be auto-discovered, use EntityManager (JPA)

(Reference)

Update: it appears you have listed the class in hibernate.cfg.xml. So auto-discovery is not necessary. Btw, try javax.persistence.Entity

use below line of code in the case of spring boot applications.

@EntityScan(basePackageClasses=YourClassName.class)

I encountered the same problem when I switched to AnnotationSessionFactoryBean. I was using entity.hbm.xml before.

I found that My class was missing following annotation which resolved the issue in my case:

@Entity
@Table(name = "MyTestEntity")
@XmlRootElement

In case if you get this exception in SpringBoot application even though the entities are annotated with Entity annotation, it might be due to the spring not aware of where to scan for entities

To explicitly specify the package, add below

@SpringBootApplication
@EntityScan({"model.package.name"})
public class SpringBootApp {...}

note: If you model classes resides in the same or sub packages of SpringBootApplication annotated class, no need to explicitly declare the EntityScan, by default it will scan

check that entity is defined in hibernate.cfg.xml or not.

Use import javax.persistence.Entity; Instead of import org.hibernate.annotations.Entity;

You can enable entity scan by adding below annotation on Application .java @EntityScan(basePackageClasses=YourEntityClassName.class)

Or you can set the packageToScan in your session factory. sessionFactory.setPackagesToScan(“com.all.entity”);

you should add all the entity files in the .addAnnotatedClass(Class) method, if the class needs to be auto discovered.

use this link, it might help..

http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/core/api/org/hibernate/cfg/AnnotationConfiguration.html