org.hibernate.MappingException: Could not determine type for: java.util.List, at table: College, for columns: [org.hibernate.mapping.Column(students)]

Question

I'm using Hibernate for all CRUD operations in my project. It doesn't work for One-To-Many and Many-To-One relationships. It gives me the below error.

org.hibernate.MappingException: Could not determine type for: java.util.List, at table: College, for columns: [org.hibernate.mapping.Column(students)]

Then again i went through this video tutorial. It is very simple to me, in the beginning. But, i cant make it work. It also now, says

org.hibernate.MappingException: Could not determine type for: java.util.List, at table: College, for columns: [org.hibernate.mapping.Column(students)]

I have ran some searches in the internet, there someone telling its a bug in Hibernate, and some says, by adding @GenereatedValue this error ll be cleared, but it doesn't work for me.

College.java

@Entity
public class College {
@Id
@GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.AUTO)
private int collegeId;
private String collegeName;


private List<Student> students;

@OneToMany(targetEntity=Student.class, mappedBy="college", fetch=FetchType.EAGER)
public List<Student> getStudents() {
    return students;
}
public void setStudents(List<Student> students) {
    this.students = students;
}//Other gettters & setters omitted

Student.java

@Entity
public class Student {


@Id
@GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.AUTO)
private int studentId;
private String studentName;


private College college;

@ManyToOne
@JoinColumn(name="collegeId")
public College getCollege() {
    return college;
}
public void setCollege(College college) {
    this.college = college;
}//Other gettters & setters omitted

Main.java:

public class Main {

private static org.hibernate.SessionFactory sessionFactory;

  public static SessionFactory getSessionFactory() {
    if (sessionFactory == null) {
      initSessionFactory();
    }
    return sessionFactory;
  }

  private static synchronized void initSessionFactory() {
    sessionFactory = new AnnotationConfiguration().configure().buildSessionFactory();

  }

  public static Session getSession() {
    return getSessionFactory().openSession();
  }

  public static void main (String[] args) {
                Session session = getSession();
        Transaction transaction = session.beginTransaction();
        College college = new College();
        college.setCollegeName("Dr.MCET");

        Student student1 = new Student();
        student1.setStudentName("Peter");

        Student student2 = new Student();
        student2.setStudentName("John");

        student1.setCollege(college);
        student2.setCollege(college);



        session.save(student1);
        session.save(student2);
        transaction.commit();
  }


}

Console:

 Exception in thread "main" org.hibernate.MappingException: Could not determine type  for: java.util.List, at table: College, for columns:  [org.hibernate.mapping.Column(students)]
at org.hibernate.mapping.SimpleValue.getType(SimpleValue.java:306)
at org.hibernate.mapping.SimpleValue.isValid(SimpleValue.java:290)
at org.hibernate.mapping.Property.isValid(Property.java:217)
at org.hibernate.mapping.PersistentClass.validate(PersistentClass.java:463)
at org.hibernate.mapping.RootClass.validate(RootClass.java:235)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.validate(Configuration.java:1330)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1833)
at test.hibernate.Main.initSessionFactory(Main.java:22)
at test.hibernate.Main.getSessionFactory(Main.java:16)
at test.hibernate.Main.getSession(Main.java:27)
at test.hibernate.Main.main(Main.java:43)

The XML:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory>
    <!-- Database connection settings -->
    <property name="connection.driver_class">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</property>
    <property name="connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/dummy</property>
    <property name="connection.username">root</property>
    <property name="connection.password">1234</property>
    <!-- JDBC connection pool (use the built-in) -->
    <property name="connection.pool_size">1</property>
    <!-- SQL dialect -->
    <property name="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</property>
    <!-- Enable Hibernate's automatic session context management -->
    <property name="current_session_context_class">thread</property>
    <!-- Disable the second-level cache -->
    <property name="cache.provider_class">org.hibernate.cache.NoCacheProvider</property>
    <!-- Echo all executed SQL to stdout -->
    <property name="show_sql">true</property>
    <!-- Drop and re-create the database schema on startup -->
    <property name="hbm2ddl.auto">update</property>

    <mapping class="test.hibernate.Student" />
    <mapping class="test.hibernate.College" />
</session-factory>

Answer 1

You are using field access strategy (determined by @Id annotation). Put any JPA related annotation right above each field instead of getter property

@OneToMany(targetEntity=Student.class, mappedBy="college", fetch=FetchType.EAGER)
private List<Student> students;