Hi All,

Anybody has ever used dynamic properties or expressions of the form ${} in hbm files. If yes, how to make hibernate know about the values of these expressions.

I am working on an existing 3-tier J2EE app which uses hibernate(3.3.2) along with other tech.
The application's data model has several tables & there are corresponding hibernate mapping xml (hbm) files.

Almost all of these files are using expression of the form ${} for class attribute.

For eg:


Since its an existing app, I tried digging into the code but couldn't find how the app is letting hibernate know the location from where it can load the values of those expressions.

What I am trying to do is run the hbm2ddl SchemaExportTask using Ant on *.hbm.xml file and the Ant build is failing with an exception: Schema text failed: Association references unmapped class: ${someName}

Any help is appreciated.