Erro Hibernate - An AnnotationConfiguration instance is required to use <mapping class= [...]

Boa noite,

Eu estou tendo problemas com minha classe de conexão HibernateFactory.

Quando executo a classe HibernateFactory é apresentado o seguinte erro:

"Informações: Configuration resource: /hibernate.cfg.xml
Inicio da SessionFactory Falhou. org.hibernate.MappingException: An AnnotationConfiguration instance is required to use "

Segue a minha HibernateFactory:

import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
//import org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration;
import org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration;
import org.slf4j.*;

public class HibernateFactory{

    private static final SessionFactory sessionFactory = buildSessionFactory();
    private static Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(HibernateFactory.class);
    
    private static SessionFactory buildSessionFactory(){
    
        try {
            return new Configuration().configure().buildSessionFactory();
          // return new AnnotationConfiguration().configure().buildSessionFactory();
            
        }
        catch(Throwable ex){          
            System.err.println("Inicio da SessionFactory Falhou. " + ex);
            throw new ExceptionInInitializerError(ex);
        }
    }
    
    public static SessionFactory getSessionFactory(){
        return sessionFactory;
    }
    
}

Meu hibernate.cfg.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>
    <property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</property>
    <property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</property>
    <property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/segdb?zeroDateTimeBehavior=convertToNull</property>
    <property name="hibernate.connection.username">tati</property>
    <property name="hibernate.connection.password">123</property>
    
    <mapping class="pacote.bean.UsuarioBean" />
  </session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

Estou usando Hibernate + prime faces + JSF

Vlw

Qual a versao do hibernate voce esta usando? Tive v[arios problemas com a versao 4.2, passei a usar a versao 3 que vem com o netbeans e nao tive mais dores de cabeca.

Att, Gustavo

No hibernate 3.5 eu faço assim

Configuration cfg = new Configuration(); cfg.("hibernate.cfg.xml"); return cfg.buildSessionFactory();