Hibernate: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException

[Sophia Ranjani]

I wrote a prgram using hibernate and got the following error:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullP ointerException
at hibernateTutori al.FirstExample .main(FirstExam ple.java:36)
/hibernate.cfg.x ml not found
So i am new to this topic please help
Thanks in advance.
Please find the code attached below:

public class FirstExample {


public static void main(String[] args) {
Session session = null;

try{
// This step will read hibernate.cfg.x ml


SessionFactory sessionFactory = new

Configuration() .configure().bu ildSessionFacto ry();
session =sessionFactory .openSession();
//Create new instance of Contact and set


System.out.prin tln("Inserting Record");
Contact contact = new Contact();
contact.setId(3 );
contact.setFirs tName("Deepak") ;
contact.setLast Name("Kumar");
contact.setEmai l("deepak_38@ya hoo.com");
session.save(co ntact);
System.out.prin tln("Done");
}catch(Exceptio n e){
System.out.prin tln(e.getMessag e());
}finally{
// Actual contact insertion will happen at this step
session.flush() ;
session.close() ;