Hibernate 5: sessionFactory is null

Question

Im getting a null value for sessionFactory variable at this line:

sessionFactory = new MetadataSources( registry ).buildMetadata().buildSessionFactory();

This is the whole class:

import javax.imageio.spi.ServiceRegistry;
import javax.transaction.Transaction;

import org.hibernate.Session;
import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
import org.hibernate.boot.MetadataSources;
import org.hibernate.boot.registry.StandardServiceRegistry;
import org.hibernate.boot.registry.StandardServiceRegistryBuilder;
import org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration;

import ch.makery.model.Employee;  

public class HelloWorld {
    protected void setUp() throws Exception {
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        SessionFactory sessionFactory = null;

        // A SessionFactory is set up once for an application!
        final StandardServiceRegistry registry = new StandardServiceRegistryBuilder()
                .configure() // configures settings from hibernate.cfg.xml
                .build();
        try {
            sessionFactory = new MetadataSources( registry ).buildMetadata().buildSessionFactory();
        }
        catch (Exception e) {
            // The registry would be destroyed by the SessionFactory, but we had trouble building the SessionFactory
            // so destroy it manually.
            StandardServiceRegistryBuilder.destroy( registry );
        }

        Session session = sessionFactory.openSession();
        //employee = new Employee();

       session.beginTransaction();
       session.save(new Employee());
       session.getTransaction().commit();
       session.close();
    }
}

This is my Hibernate related files:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!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.driver_class">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</property>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.password">manolete</property>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/employee</property>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.username">root</property>
        <property name="cache.provider_class">org.hibernate.cache.internal.NoCacheProvider</property>
        <property name="hbm2ddl.auto">create</property>
        <mapping resource="src/ch/makery/model/Employee.hbm.xml" />
    </session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">
<!-- Generated 14-dic-2015 21:00:04 by Hibernate Tools 3.4.0.CR1 -->
<hibernate-mapping>
    <class name="ch.makery.model.Employee" table="EMPLOYEE">
        <id name="id" type="int">
            <column name="ID" />
            <generator class="assigned" />
        </id>
        <property name="firstName" type="java.lang.String">
            <column name="FIRSTNAME" />
        </property>
        <property name="lastName" type="java.lang.String">
            <column name="LASTNAME" />
        </property>
    </class>
</hibernate-mapping>

package ch.makery.model;

public class Employee {  
    private int id;  
    private String firstName,lastName;  

    public int getId() {  
        return id;  
    }  
    public void setId(int id) {  
        this.id = id;  
    }

    public String getFirstName() {  
        return firstName;  
    }  
    public void setFirstName(String firstName) {  
        this.firstName = firstName;  
    }   

    public String getLastName() {  
        return lastName;  
    }  
    public void setLastName(String lastName) {  
        this.lastName = lastName;  
    }   

}

Im not using Spring since Im just creating a desktop application.

Answer 1

The method buildSessionFactory is deprecated from the hibernate 4 release and it is replaced with the new API. If you are using the hibernate 4.3.0 and above try to write the configuration like this:

Configuration configuration = new Configuration().configure();
configuration.configure("your_path_hibernate_.cfg.xml");
StandardServiceRegistryBuilder ssrb = new StandardServiceRegistryBuilder().applySettings(configuration.getProperties());
 sessionFactory = configuration.buildSessionFactory(ssrb.build());