I'm trying to follow the first Hibernate tutorial and have been hitting some basic problems.

I build a JAR file "htest.jar". When I run, I get:

Initial SessionFactory creation failed.org.hibernate.MappingException: Resource: Event.hbm.xml not found

Obviously, the Hibernate framework can't locate my mapping file. A slightly simplified version of my directory structure is like this:



The jar file "htest.jar" is built with the "bin" base directory.
The class path embedded within the manifest file of the jar file contains:

The second and third path references are redundant but that's OK.

In hibernate.cfg.xml, I have:

Also tried:


I can get this working without using a jar file and using a custom CLASSPATH but I would like to get this working with a full jar file.

This is driving me nuts. It seems like a fairly simple setup issue. I've done plenty of Internet searches and have read many related forum threads and no luck. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

I dont know if this will help, but can you place your mapping xml file at the same place of your VO (Event.java)? It is a good practice.

And make sure that the xml file is copy in the class (execution) folder (class\com\kurt\htest\)... while compiling.... and call the mapping file by using the path : com/package/Event.hbm.xml

Etienne.

I see you have just done that... it should work

Everything looks ok.

Have you tried opening the jar file and seeing if the path is bin/com/.... or com/...

alternatively, could you post the jar task you use?

This was the problem. The above two didn't work. This works:



I've literally spent hours tinkering with this; it drove me nuts. Now it's fixed. Thank you guys for helping very much!