Here's the code I'm using -- it's about as basic as it gets public static void main(String[] args) { EntityManager em = null; EntityManagerFactory factory = null; try { factory = Persistence. createEntityManagerFactory("event", System.getProperties());
// Create a new EntityManager from the EntityManagerFactory. The // EntityManager is the main object in the persistence API, and is // used to create, delete, and query objects, as well as access // the current transaction em = factory.createEntityManager(); Here's the standard error output I am getting (including the SAXParser type SAXParser class --> gnu.xml.aelfred2.JAXPFactory An error occurred while attempting to determine the version of "file:/C:/workspaces/new-cmc/thead-new/bin/META-INF/persistence.xml". java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.apache.openjpa.lib.xml.XMLFactory at org.apache.openjpa.lib.meta.XMLMetaDataParser.parseNewResource(XMLMetaDataParser.java:369) at org.apache.openjpa.lib.meta.XMLMetaDataParser.parse(XMLMetaDataParser.java:334) at org.apache.openjpa.lib.meta.XMLMetaDataParser.parse(XMLMetaDataParser.java:311) at org.apache.openjpa.lib.meta.XMLMetaDataParser.parse(XMLMetaDataParser.java:284) at org.apache.openjpa.persistence.PersistenceProductDerivation$ConfigurationParser.parse(PersistenceProductDerivation.java:775) at org.apache.openjpa.persistence.PersistenceProductDerivation.parseResources(PersistenceProductDerivation.java:559) at org.apache.openjpa.persistence.PersistenceProductDerivation.load(PersistenceProductDerivation.java:525) at org.apache.openjpa.persistence.PersistenceProductDerivation.load(PersistenceProductDerivation.java:339) at org.apache.openjpa.persistence.PersistenceProviderImpl.createEntityManagerFactory(PersistenceProviderImpl.java:90) at org.apache.openjpa.persistence.PersistenceProviderImpl.createEntityManagerFactory(PersistenceProviderImpl.java:157) at org.apache.openjpa.persistence.PersistenceProviderImpl.createEntityManagerFactory(PersistenceProviderImpl.java:66) at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:152) at com.hp.p4000.db.DbConnect.main(DbConnect.java:31) -- View this message in context: http://openjpa.208410.n2.nabble.com/problems-running-JPA-standalone-outside-of-container-tp6838028p6840657.html Sent from the OpenJPA Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.