i am deploying an ear file to the orion app server and have in the root of the ear file the hibernate.cfg.xml file. Within the ear file i have an ejb jar file that has a ejb class that calls:

to load the hibernate.cfg.xml file. When this happens i get an error in my log file:

INFO [RMICallHandler-4] (Configuration.java:689) - Configuration resource: /hibernate.cfg.xml

WARN [RMICallHandler-4] (Configuration.java:693) - /hibernate.cfg.xml not found

From what i have read, it appears the hibernate.cfg.xml file is usually placed in the WEB-INF/classes dir, but with an ear file (only has EJB jar files and application jar files) i do not have this directory. Therefore the question is simple, where do i place the hibernate.cfg.xml file so that it is seen by the Configuration object? The simple answer is in the root of the classpath. However based on my configuration with a single ear file that contains many jar files where the hibernate.cfg.xml file lives at the same level in the ear as the jars how do i make the hibernate.cfg.xml visible?

thanks in advance for your reply.

This is actaully a ear/jar issue. What you need to do is to keep the hibernate config file in the root of the ear, but then in your ejb jar file add a manifest class path entry for "."

If you use ant, when generating your ejb jar file do something like:

Thank you Steve I will give this a try and report back.

Just letting you know that this worked. Thanks again for your help!

Hi,

I follow above instruction, but Orion still could NOT found hibernate.cfg.xml.

Finally found a solution by efender (Eric Fenderbosch) Date: 2003-07-28 11:15 :
Moving hibernate2.jar from the system CLASSPATH to inside of the EAR fixed it. The application classloader can now find it just fine.