Hi,
I am an absolute beginner to Hibernate. I am using Tomcat 4.1 and cant seem to figure out where to put hibernate.properties file
I tried placing the file in common/lib; classpath; context/web-inf/classes.

Every time it shows me the following dump.

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Sep 16, 2003 5:18:40 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Environment <clinit>
INFO: Hibernate 2.0.2
Sep 16, 2003 5:18:40 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Environment <clinit>
INFO: hibernate.properties not found
Sep 16, 2003 5:18:40 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Environment <clinit>
INFO: using CGLIB reflection optimizer
Sep 16, 2003 5:18:40 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Environment <clinit>
INFO: JVM proxy support: true
Sep 16, 2003 5:18:40 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Configuration addClass
INFO: Mapping resource: com/modapay/entity/Merchant.hbm.xml
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Please suggest.
Thanks a lot.

I think. you can put it anywhere ( generally in the directory where the main class which reads the hbm files and conifgures the session factory.

Then do setProperties() on the config for teh hibernate.properties file.

I use tomcat as well, and we deploy the hibernate.properties to
%CATALINA_HOME%\webapps\our_app\WEB-INF\classes.

Jenica

for tomcat WEB-INF\classes\ is the location you want. put more simply, the props file or the hibernate.cfg.xml file needs to be in your classpath.

I would like to thank every body for their help.