[b]Hibernate version:[/b]
2.1
[b]Mapping documents:[/b]
n/a

[b]Code between sessionFactory.openSession() and session.close():n/a[/b]

[b]Full stack trace of any exception that occurs:[/b]
20:43:06,328 ERROR [STDERR] net.sf.hibernate.MappingException: Resource: com/infravio/demo/wamu/dao/ServiceData.hbm.xml not found
at net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.addClass(Configuration.java:285)
at com.infravio.demo.wamu.services.routerService.RouterServiceSoapBindingImpl$Worker.save(RouterServiceSoapBindingImpl.java:111)
at com.infravio.demo.wamu.services.routerService.RouterServiceSoapBindingImpl.submitSvcRequest(RouterServiceSoapBindingImpl.java:39)
at com.infravio.demo.wamu.services.routerService.RouterServiceSoapBindingSkeleton.submitSvcRequest(RouterServiceSoapBindingSkeleton.java:80)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.apache.axis.providers.java.RPCProvider.invokeMethod(RPCProvider.java:402)
at org.apache.axis.providers.java.RPCProvider.processMessage(RPCProvider.java:309)
at org.apache.axis.providers.java.JavaProvider.invoke(JavaProvider.java:333)
at org.apache.axis.strategies.InvocationStrategy.visit(InvocationStrategy.java:71)
at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.doVisiting(SimpleChain.java:150)
at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.invoke(SimpleChain.java:120)
at org.apache.axis.handlers.soap.SOAPService.invoke(SOAPService.java:481)
at org.apache.axis.server.AxisServer.invoke(AxisServer.java:323)
at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServlet.doPost(AxisServlet.java:854)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:760)
at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.service(AxisServletBase.java:339)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:247)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:256)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.CertificatesValve.invoke(CertificatesValve.java:246)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:641)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.invoke(StandardContext.java:2415)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:180)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorDispatcherValve.invoke(ErrorDispatcherValve.java:171)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:641)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:172)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:641)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:509)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:641)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:174)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)
at org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:223)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:594)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Protocol.java:392)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:565)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:619)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)

[b]Name and version of the database you are using:HSQL packaged with 2.1 distro[/b]

[b]Debug level Hibernate log excerpt:[/b]
Error

[b]Statement of problem:[/b]
I'm running into problems with the mapping files being found in my war file. I've tried putting them where the data object classes are located, and at the top level directory where the hibernate.properties and log4J.properties files are located. As you can see from the stack trace, this hasn't been successful. I could try trial and error, but I'm hoping for a difinitive answer. BTW, the WAR file is a packaged web service - so no UI is included.

I always put them right next to the .class files they map, in the very same directory down the very same tree. This is before warring up the webapp, so they both end up under WEB-INF/classes right next to each other.
WEB-INF/classes/com/infravio/demo/wamu/dao/ServiceData.class
WEB-INF/classes/com/infravio/demo/wamu/dao/ServiceData.hbm.xml

Since I'm using xdoclet and both ant and maven for similar projects, I set the hibernatedoclet output directory to be the same as the java compile output directory. I haven't had problems with this arrangement