* Each of below files are in same location * Error : SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder". SLF4J: Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder for further details. org.hibernate.InvalidMappingException: Could not parse mapping document from resource ./employee.hbm.xml at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.addResource(Configuration.java:616) at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.parseMappingElement(Configuration.java:1635) at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.parseSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1603) at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.doConfigure(Configuration.java:1582) at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.doConfigure(Configuration.java:1556) at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.configure(Configuration.java:1476) at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.configure(Configuration.java:1462) at com.yahoo.hibernatelearning.FirstExample.main(FirstExample.java:19) Caused by: org.hibernate.InvalidMappingException: Could not parse mapping document from input stream at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.addInputStream(Configuration.java:555) at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.addResource(Configuration.java:613) ... 7 more Caused by: org.dom4j.DocumentException: http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/%0Ahibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd Nested exception: http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/%0Ahibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:484) at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.addInputStream(Configuration.java:546) ... 8 more Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException at com.yahoo.hibernatelearning.FirstExample.main(FirstExample.java:33) Hibernate Config: hibernate.cfg.xml <?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"> <hibernate-configuration> <session-factory> <property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">org.h2.Driver</property> <property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:h2:./db/repository</property> <property name="hibernate.connection.username">sa</property> <property name="hibernate.connection.password"></property> <property name="hibernate.default_schema">PUBLIC</property> <property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.H2Dialect</property> <property name="hibernate.show_sql">true</property> <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">update</property> <!-- Mapping files --> <mapping resource="./employee.hbm.xml"/> </session-factory> </hibernate-configuration> Mapping Config: employee.hbm.xml <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN" "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/ hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd"> <hibernate-mapping> <class name="com.yahoo.hibernatelearning.Employee" table="employee"> <id name="empId" type="int" column="emp_id" > <generator class="native"/> </id> <property name="empName"> <column name="emp_name" /> </property> <property name="empSal"> <column name="emp_sal" /> </property> </class> </hibernate-mapping>