This seems to be a similar question (Test DAO in java using Junit4 and Hibernate), but he’s getting the session created successfully. I’m unable to create the session.
Please note that I’m not using Spring. I just need to test my DAOs which create sessions using HibernateUtil.java
My Sample Test Code (in test packages)
public void testGetBean() {
System.out.println("getBean");
int idaccount = 0;
Account expResult = null;
Account result = DAOAccount.getBean(idaccount);
assertEquals(expResult, result);
// TODO review the generated test code and remove the default call to fail.
//fail("The test case is a prototype.");
}
And here is DAOAccount getBean() (in source packages)
public static Account getBean(int idaccount) {
Account ac = null;
Session sess = NewHibernateUtil.getSessionFactory().openSession();
Transaction tx = sess.beginTransaction();
Query q = sess.createQuery("from Account where idaccount=:id");
q.setInteger("id", idaccount);
ac = (Account) q.uniqueResult();
tx.commit();
sess.close();
return ac;
}
NewHibernateUtil.java (in source packages)
public class NewHibernateUtil {
private static final SessionFactory sessionFactory;
static {
try {
// Create the SessionFactory from standard (hibernate.cfg.xml)
// config file.
// sessionFactory = new AnnotationConfiguration().configure().buildSessionFactory();
sessionFactory = new Configuration().configure().buildSessionFactory();
} catch (Throwable ex) {
// Log the exception.
System.err.println("Initial SessionFactory creation failed." + ex);
throw new ExceptionInInitializerError(ex);
}
}
public static SessionFactory getSessionFactory() {
return sessionFactory;
}
}
and here is the stack trace 
Below is the project structure :
Actual Exception Stacktrace as asked by @Subin
[2012-12-29 16:36:24.347] [ INFO] Configuration.applyHibernateValidatorLegacyConstraintsOnDDL:1646 - Hibernate Validator not found: ignoring
Initial SessionFactory creation failed.java.lang.ClassFormatError: Absent Code attribute in method that is not native or abstract in class file javax/validation/Validation
java.lang.ClassFormatError: Absent Code attribute in method that is not native or abstract in class file javax/validation/Validation
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:631)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:615)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:283)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:58)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:197)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:247)
at org.hibernate.util.ReflectHelper.classForName(ReflectHelper.java:170)
at org.hibernate.cfg.beanvalidation.BeanValidationActivator.applyDDL(BeanValidationActivator.java:103)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.applyBeanValidationConstraintsOnDDL(Configuration.java:1674)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.applyConstraintsToDDL(Configuration.java:1624)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.secondPassCompile(Configuration.java:1415)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1826)
at dao.NewHibernateUtil.<clinit>(NewHibernateUtil.java:25)
at dao.DAOAccount.getAccounts(DAOAccount.java:77)
at dao.DAOAccountTest.testGetAccounts_User(DAOAccountTest.java:78)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at junit.framework.TestCase.runTest(TestCase.java:176)
at junit.framework.TestCase.runBare(TestCase.java:141)
at junit.framework.TestResult$1.protect(TestResult.java:122)
at junit.framework.TestResult.runProtected(TestResult.java:142)
at junit.framework.TestResult.run(TestResult.java:125)
at junit.framework.TestCase.run(TestCase.java:129)
at junit.framework.TestSuite.runTest(TestSuite.java:255)
at junit.framework.TestSuite.run(TestSuite.java:250)
at org.junit.internal.runners.JUnit38ClassRunner.run(JUnit38ClassRunner.java:84)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4TestSet.execute(JUnit4TestSet.java:62)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.suite.AbstractDirectoryTestSuite.executeTestSet(AbstractDirectoryTestSuite.java:140)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.suite.AbstractDirectoryTestSuite.execute(AbstractDirectoryTestSuite.java:127)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.Surefire.run(Surefire.java:177)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireBooter.runSuitesInProcess(SurefireBooter.java:338)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireBooter.main(SurefireBooter.java:997)
Configuration.configure()will work correctly only ifhibernate.cfg.xmlis available as application resource. or classpath.If you are using eclipse to invoke your Junit test, add hibernate.cfg.xml to classpath, since you are using maven do you have it in src/main/resources
Please see this link to see, why java.lang.ClassFormatError: happens.
Maven: hibernate-entitymanager together with javaee-api break my unit tests