Hibernate – The type AnnotationConfiguration is deprecated

Problem

Working with Hibernate 3.6, noticed the previous “org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration“, is marked as “deprecated“.

Code snippets …

Java

import org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration;
//...
private static SessionFactory buildSessionFactory() {
 try {

  return new AnnotationConfiguration().configure().buildSessionFactory();
   
 } catch (Throwable ex) {
 
  System.err.println("Initial SessionFactory creation failed." + ex);
  throw new ExceptionInInitializerError(ex);
 }
}

The code is still working, just keep displaying the deprecated warning message, is there any replacement for “AnnotationConfiguration” ?

Solution

In Hibernate 3.6, “org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration” is deprecated, and all its functionality has been moved to “org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration“.

So , you can safely replace your “AnnotationConfiguration” with “Configuration” class.

Code snippets …

Java

import org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration;
//...
private static SessionFactory buildSessionFactory() {
 try {

  return new Configuration().configure().buildSessionFactory();
   
 } catch (Throwable ex) {
 
  System.err.println("Initial SessionFactory creation failed." + ex);
  throw new ExceptionInInitializerError(ex);
 }
}

References

1. http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/core/3.6/javadocs/org/hibernate/cfg/AnnotationConfiguration.html
2. http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/core/3.6/javadocs/org/hibernate/cfg/Configuration.html