If you have used Hibernate with JPA and using annotation to declare your entity bean then you might have seen this confusing error called "org.hibernate.MappingException: Unknown entity". This error message is so misleading that you could easily lose anywhere between few minutes to few hours looking at wrong places. I was using Spring 3 and Hibernate 3.6 when I got this error,which occurs when addEntity() method was executed. I checked everything, from Spring configuration file applicationContext.xml, Hibernate config file, my Entity class and DAO class to see whether my Entity class is annotated or not, but I was still getting this error message. After some goggling I eventually find that, it was an incorrect import which was causing this error. Both hibernate and JPA has @Entity annotation and some how Eclipse was automatically importing org.hibernate.annotations.Entity instead of javax.persistence.Entity annotation. Once I fixed this import issue, everything went smooth. Unfortunately, this error is not easy to spot, the org.hibernate.annotations.Entity import seemed completely appropriate to many programmers. For a newbie Java or hibernate developer it�s really hard to understand which Entity annotation to use, shouldn't be in org.hibernate.annotations.Entity, but instead it's javax.persistence.Entity. By the way, if you are using auto-complete functionality of Eclipse IDE, then you can blame it them, alternatively you can configure your preferred import in Eclipse.
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