Hello friends -

Hibernate 2 + 3 mixed application running on Tomcat 5. Application has been generally stable for several years. This morning, anyone who needed to rebuild their session factory started bombing out. Log files indicate a dom4j.DocumentException

"Error on line 1 of document http://www.jboss.org/dtd/hibernate/hibe ... on-2.0.dtd: The markup declarations contained or pointed to by the document type delcaration contained or pointed to by the document type declaration must be well-formed"

If I goto http://www.jboss.org/dtd/hibernate/hibe ... on-2.0.dtd, I get a Maintenance message from the Jboss guys about how they'll be back up and running a few hours ago.

That being said, I've tried to replace references to hibernate-mapping-#.0.dtd to the local filesystem to no avail. I have replaced references in my application hibernate.cfg.xml to local and verified the path. I also have opened up hibernate2.jar and hibernate3.jar, exploded out hibernate-mapping-#.0.dtd and hibernate-configuration-#.0.dtd, replaced with local references, and pushed back into the jar files without any love.

I'm not clear where else I can monkey with files to have my application think it doesn't need to talk to hibernate.sourceforge.org. Can anyone help? Also, is anyone else having this problem? I'm thinking I would have run into this problem considering how long the application has been running.

Thanks.

brian

[Note: accidentally posted to nHibernate Users first. Sorry for the crosspost]

Hello friends -

Solved this before jboss returned; it looks like the .jar file version of the .dtd was being skipped due to a mismatch dtd declaration in one file; i.e., hibernate3 trying to load a .hbm.xml file with a -2.0.dtd defintion. FYI for anyone who runs into this in the future.

brian

What is the syntax that you used to fix this problem and point to the local file system copy of the dtd? Even with the site back up - I am getting validation errors in Eclipse builds - indicating that there is an error with the dtd file now. So it would be great to eliminate this dependency altogether.