In the context of a Spring and Hibernate but non-Maven project (working in NetBeans), where java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jboss.jandex.IndexView:
Add jandex-2.0.0Final.jar (or whatever version works) to your Library. — In a Maven project likely similarly – add it as a dependency
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29744915/how-to-setup-jpa-project-with-hibernate