Why does Hibernate perform a JNDI lookup?

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I have following configuration file - ```

com.mysql.jdbc.Driver mysql jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/test root org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect true

``` This is my code for building a session factory - ``` public static void main(String[] args) { Configuration config = new Configuration().configure("hibernate.cfg.xml"); sf = config.buildSessionFactory(); } ``` I am getting this exception - ``` javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Need to specify class name in environment or system property, or as an…

Accepted Answer

It is not actually failing because of lookup, but because it tries to make binding to JNDI. It does so because here: ``` ``` you give name of session factory Hibernate tries to bind session factory to JNDI. Most likely you do not have JNDI configured for your Java SE application, so name attribute is not needed. Just omit it: ``` ```

Why does Hibernate perform a JNDI lookup?

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