title: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.addAnnotatedClass
body: <p>I am new to JPA &amp; hibernate, when I try this <a href="http://www.vogella.com/articles/JavaPersistenceAPI/article.html" rel="nofollow">tutorial</a>  .
  I added the following provider in my persistence.xml,</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;provider&gt;org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence&lt;/provider&gt; 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and I am getting this error..</p>
  
  <pre><code>log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.jboss.logging).
  log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
  log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for more info.
  Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.addAnnotatedClass(Ljava/lang/Class;)Lorg/hibernate/cfg/Configuration;
      at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.addAnnotatedClass(Ejb3Configuration.java:1421)
      at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.addNamedAnnotatedClasses(Ejb3Configuration.java:1391)
      at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.addClassesToSessionFactory(Ejb3Configuration.java:1184)
      at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.configure(Ejb3Configuration.java:1048)
      at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.configure(Ejb3Configuration.java:291)
      at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.configure(Ejb3Configuration.java:373)
      at org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence.createEntityManagerFactory(HibernatePersistence.java:56)
      at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:48)
      at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:32)
      at de.vogella.jpa.simple.main.Main.main(Main.java:17)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Kindly help to resolve this error .
  Thank you</p>