Hibernate Error – java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder

Error:

SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder".
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder for further details.
Initial SessionFactory creation failed.java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder
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: org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder
    at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.<clinit>(LoggerFactory.java:60)
    at org.hibernate.cfg.annotations.Version.<clinit>(Version.java:12)
    at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration.<clinit>(AnnotationConfiguration.java:78)
    at net.hibernateApp.packt.maven.hibernate.HibernateUtils.buildSessionFactory(HibernateUtils.java:20)
    ... 8 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder
    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)
    ... 12 more








Solution:

Solution:

Add dependency to you pom file:

• Maven central repository:

  <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
       <version>1.5.2</version>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>