[b]Hibernate version:2.1.4[/b]

[b]Mapping documents:[/b]

<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory>

<!-- Properties -->
<property name="hibernate.dialect">net.sf.hibernate.dialect.SQLServerDialect</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">com.inet.tds.TdsDriver</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:inetdae:CONTRACT1:1433?database=CDRAaron</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.username"></property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.password"></property>
<property name="hibernate.show_sql">true</property>

<!-- Mapping resources -->
<mapping resource="resources/Address.hbm.xml"/>
<mapping resource="resources/Identifier.hbm.xml"/>
<mapping resource="resources/Name.hbm.xml"/>
<mapping resource="resources/Patient.hbm.xml"/>
<mapping resource="resources/TelecommunicationNumber.hbm.xml"/>


</session-factory>

</hibernate-configuration>

I want to store my hibernate mapping files outside of my classpath. My hibernate mapping files are stored in a directory called conf/resources, which is outside my classpath. My hibernate.cfg.xml file is stored another level up in the conf folder. Hibernate can locate the hibernate.cfg.xml file when I specify the path to the conf directory. However hibernate can't seem to locate these mapping files. When I put the resources folder in my classpath, hibernate can find them, but I really want to store the mapping files outside the classpath. How can I resolve this directory issue??

An option is to do something like this:

Thanks for that.

what I have done is in my hibernate.cfg.xml file I changed <mapping resource=resources/mapping file> to <mapping file=full path of mapping file>

I'm not sure if putting the full path of the mapping file is recommended. Is there a way to put the relative file path????????

have you tried to just do it ?

we just do new File(filename) on it - so it is relative to the vm current dir.

Im not sure that I understood your post. I really need to use a relative path instead of the absolute path. It appears that if you use the resource=, hibernate searches the class path for the resource directory. I want the resource directory outside of the classpath. You can do this by specifying file= instead of resource=, but I don't know how to set the relative path there. Can you advise me?

The path you specify in your mapping is just passed to new File(xxx). Please read the Java API.