Hibernate Error – java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/transaction/Synchronization

While executing hibernate application:

Initial SessionFactory creation failed.java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/transaction/Synchronization
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
    at net.hibernateApp.packt.maven.hibernate.HibernateUtils.buildSessionFactory(HibernateUtils.java:26)
    at net.hibernateApp.packt.maven.hibernate.HibernateUtils.<clinit>(HibernateUtils.java:15)
    at net.hibernateApp.packt.maven.app.Main.save(Main.java:34)
    at net.hibernateApp.packt.maven.app.Main.main(Main.java:25)
    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 com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:120)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/transaction/Synchronization
    at org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl.buildCurrentSessionContext(SessionFactoryImpl.java:999)
    at org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl.<init>(SessionFactoryImpl.java:334)
    at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1300)
    at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration.buildSessionFactory(AnnotationConfiguration.java:867)
    at net.hibernateApp.packt.maven.hibernate.HibernateUtils.buildSessionFactory(HibernateUtils.java:20)
    ... 8 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.transaction.Synchronization
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
    ... 13 more

Solution:

Add dependency to you pom file:

• Maven central repository:

   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>javax.transaction</groupId>
       <artifactId>jta</artifactId>
       <version>1.1</version>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies> 

• JBoss maven repository:

Add JBoss Maven repository

 <repositories>
  <repository>
   <id>JBoss repository</id>
   <url>http://repository.jboss.com/maven2/</url>
  </repository>
 </repositories> 

and add jar dependency:

 <dependencies>
  <dependency>
   <groupId>javax.transaction</groupId>
   <artifactId>jta</artifactId>
   <version>1.1</version>
  </dependency>
 </dependencies>