Never worked in websphere, but my gut feeling is that we need to drop the driver in J2EE environment too e.g. in apache tomcat i would have dropped it in the lib folder for Tomcat to check if it works.
I have some previous experience (3 yrs back) in Java and had done a course on J2EE way back. Since I was working in a small start up, I had the option of switching to .net and did so successfully. My recent assignments were and are on asp.net.
Now i have started to learn J2EE (JSF,JPA,Spring etc) and have a plan of doing a sample project on these technologies. Just to put the learning into a real time kind of stuff.
Now that i am trying to switch over, will the sample project be accepted by the companies also considering the fact that I have real time experience, in the past in JSP/Servlets and now in .net project.
Thanks, but I already tried that and it failed too.
I think I will agree with Mark, it has something to do with improper classpath. Perhaps it could be that I am depending on Eclipse inbuilt compilation option and so unable to give correct classpath for the Hibernate Tool. And hence, it might be complaining about it.
I will write my own build script and set the classpath and see how it goes.
Thanks once again. [ December 03, 2007: Message edited by: Bindesh Vijayan ]