I grabbed the new validator jar from SF and it still gives me the same error, am i missing something?

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.hibernate.event.PreInsertEvent.getSource()Lorg/hibernate/event/EventSource;
at org.hibernate.validator.event.ValidateEventListener.onPreInsert(ValidateEventListener.java:172)
at org.hibernate.action.EntityInsertAction.preInsert(EntityInsertAction.java:178)
at org.hibernate.action.EntityInsertAction.execute(EntityInsertAction.java:72)
at org.hibernate.engine.ActionQueue.execute(ActionQueue.java:279)
at org.hibernate.engine.ActionQueue.executeActions(ActionQueue.java:263)
at org.hibernate.engine.ActionQueue.executeActions(ActionQueue.java:167)
at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener.performExecutions(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:321)
at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultFlushEventListener.onFlush(DefaultFlushEventListener.java:50)
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.flush(SessionImpl.java:1027)
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.managedFlush(SessionImpl.java:365)
at org.hibernate.transaction.CacheSynchronization.beforeCompletion(CacheSynchronization.java:88)
at bitronix.tm.BitronixTransaction.fireBeforeCompletionEvent(BitronixTransaction.java:366)
at bitronix.tm.BitronixTransaction.commit(BitronixTransaction.java:142)
at bitronix.tm.BitronixTransactionManager.commit(BitronixTransactionManager.java:96)
at org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransaction.commit(JTATransaction.java:154)
at com.nbc.sports.dao.PlayerDao.createPlayer(PlayerDao.java:108)
at com.nbc.sports.DataLoaderTest.testPlayerDao(DataLoaderTest.java:170)
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 junit.framework.TestCase.runTest(TestCase.java:168)
at junit.framework.TestCase.runBare(TestCase.java:134)
at org.springframework.test.ConditionalTestCase.runBare(ConditionalTestCase.java:76)
at junit.framework.TestResult$1.protect(TestResult.java:110)
at junit.framework.TestResult.runProtected(TestResult.java:128)
at junit.framework.TestResult.run(TestResult.java:113)
at junit.framework.TestCase.run(TestCase.java:124)
at junit.framework.TestSuite.runTest(TestSuite.java:232)
at junit.framework.TestSuite.run(TestSuite.java:227)
at org.junit.internal.runners.OldTestClassRunner.run(OldTestClassRunner.java:76)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestReference.run(JUnit4TestReference.java:38)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.TestExecution.run(TestExecution.java:38)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:460)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:673)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:386)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:196)

Environmental stuff:

[INFO] Bitronix Transaction Manager version 1.3
[INFO] JVM unique ID: <spring-btm>
[INFO] recovery committed 0 dangling transaction(s) and rolled back 0 aborted transaction(s) on 1 resource(s) [jdbc/jtds]
[INFO] Using JTA UserTransaction: a BitronixTransactionManager with 0 in-flight transaction(s)
[INFO] Using JTA TransactionManager: a BitronixTransactionManager with 0 in-flight transaction(s)
[INFO] Hibernate 3.3.0.GA
[INFO] hibernate.properties not found
[INFO] Bytecode provider name : javassist
[INFO] using JDK 1.4 java.sql.Timestamp handling
[INFO] Hibernate Commons Annotations 3.1.0.CR2
[INFO] Building new Hibernate SessionFactory
[INFO] Unable to find org.hibernate.search.event.FullTextIndexEventListener on the classpath. Hibernate Search is not enabled.
[INFO] Initializing connection provider: org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.TransactionAwareDataSourceConnectionProvider
[INFO] RDBMS: Microsoft SQL Server, version: 10.00.1600
[INFO] JDBC driver: jTDS Type 4 JDBC Driver for MS SQL Server and Sybase, version: 1.2.2
[INFO] Using dialect: org.hibernate.dialect.SQLServerDialect
[INFO] Transaction strategy: org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransactionFactory
[INFO] JNDI InitialContext properties:{}
[INFO] instantiating TransactionManagerLookup: org.hibernate.transaction.BTMTransactionManagerLookup
[INFO] instantiated TransactionManagerLookup
[INFO] instantiating TransactionManagerLookup: org.hibernate.transaction.BTMTransactionManagerLookup
[INFO] instantiated TransactionManagerLookup
[INFO] Automatic flush during beforeCompletion(): enabled
[INFO] Automatic session close at end of transaction: enabled
[INFO] Scrollable result sets: enabled
[INFO] JDBC3 getGeneratedKeys(): enabled
[INFO] Connection release mode: auto
[INFO] Default schema: dbo
[INFO] Default batch fetch size: 1
[INFO] Generate SQL with comments: disabled
[INFO] Order SQL updates by primary key: disabled
[INFO] Order SQL inserts for batching: disabled
[INFO] Query translator: org.hibernate.hql.ast.ASTQueryTranslatorFactory
[INFO] Query language substitutions: {}
[INFO] JPA-QL strict compliance: disabled
[INFO] Second-level cache: enabled
[INFO] Query cache: disabled
[INFO] Cache region factory : org.hibernate.cache.impl.bridge.RegionFactoryCacheProviderBridge
[INFO] Cache provider: org.hibernate.cache.NoCacheProvider
[INFO] Optimize cache for minimal puts: disabled
[INFO] Structured second-level cache entries: disabled
[INFO] Statistics: disabled
[INFO] Deleted entity synthetic identifier rollback: disabled
[INFO] Default entity-mode: pojo
[INFO] Named query checking : enabled
[INFO] building session factory
[INFO] Not binding factory to JNDI, no JNDI name configured
[INFO] Loading XML bean definitions from class path resource [org/springframework/jdbc/support/sql-error-codes.xml]
[INFO] SQLErrorCodes loaded: [DB2, Derby, H2, HSQL, Informix, MS-SQL, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Sybase]

My mistake, the error i get is on preinsert so do i need a separate bug report?

no it's the same error. should be fixed in 3.1.0.CR2

My error is gone when using HV 3.1.0.CR2 together with Hibernate 3.3.0.SP1

That's the right combination - HV 3.1.0.CR2 together with Hibernate 3.3.0.SP1

I'm getting the same error with 3.3.1-GA (Core) and HV 3.1.0-GA. I also tried HV 3.1.0 CR2 with 3.3.1-GA and get the same error.
Annotations- 3.4.0.GA, Commons-Annotations 3.1.0.GA, EntityManager 3.3.2.GA, Search 3.0.0.GA, testing 3.3.1.GA

Can anyone tell me what is wrong with this setup?

The following is the dependency used in the current version of the code (https://svn.jboss.org/repos/hibernate/validator/trunk/hibernate-validator-legacy)

         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
             <artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
            <version>3.3.0.SP1</version>
         </dependency>

Using this dependency works just fine. If I upgrade to 3.3.1.GA everything is fine as well

         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
             <artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
            <version>3.3.1.GA</version>
         </dependency>

On the contrary if I change the dependecy to 3.3.0.GA, I even get compilation errors

         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
             <artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
            <version>3.3.0.GA</version>
         </dependency>

If I recall correctly SP1 was required, because the methods in question got accidently removed in the 3.3.0.GA release.

Are you sure there is no other conflicting version of Hibernate in your classpath?

be careful -> I've the same problem when I run software on tomcat server and generate build.xml ANT file in eclipse rom MAVEN project.
Somehow there is a dependency to the hibernate.3.2.1.ga and this library/jar is also on the classpath in the tomcat lib application.
hibernate3.2.1.ga must be removed (or core must be before hibernate on the classpath).

I found that hibernate-commons-annotation-3.0.0.GA has got a reference to hibernate.3.2.1.ga what makes this PROBLEM and must be corrected that it references to the hibernate-core-3.3.1.GA .

Here is the classpath which "works" for me (extracted from maven build file):
activation-1.1.jar
ant-1.5.jar
ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar
antlr-2.7.6.jar
asm-1.5.3.jar
asm-attrs-1.5.3.jar
auco_ejb3-0.0.2.jar
cglib-2.1_3.jar
commons-beanutils-1.7.0.jar
commons-collections-3.1.jar
commons-digester-1.8.jar
commons-discovery-0.2.jar
commons-fileupload-1.2.1.jar
commons-io-1.3.2.jar
commons-lang-2.3.jar
commons-logging-1.1.1.jar
commons-math-1.1.jar
dom4j-1.6.1.jar
ehcache-1.2.3.jar
ejb3-persistence-1.0.2.GA.jar
ejb-api-3.0.jar
elvyx-1.0.24.jar
hibernate-annotations-3.4.0.GA.jar
hibernate-commons-annotations-3.3.0.ga.jar
hibernate-core-3.3.1.GA.jar
hibernate-ehcache-3.3.1.GA.jar
hibernate-entitymanager-3.4.0.GA.jar
hibernate-validator-3.1.0.GA.jar
hsqldb-1.8.0.7.jar
itext-1.4.8.jar
jasperreports-3.1.2.jar
javassist-3.8.0.GA.jar
jcommon-1.0.12.jar
jdtcore-3.2.0.v_658.jar
jfreechart-1.0.9.jar
jms-1.1.jar
jmxri-1.2.1.jar
jmxtools-1.2.1.jar
json-20080701.jar
jta-1.1.jar
junit-3.8.1.jar
log4j-1.2.15.jar
mail-1.4.jar
mysql-connector-java-5.1.6.jar
persistence-api-1.0.jar
slf4j-api-1.5.6.jar
slf4j-log4j12-1.5.6.jar
spring-2.5.6.jar
testng-5.8-jdk15.jar
xml-apis-1.3.02.jar
 
Hope it helops you :)

Greetings
Albert