<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate configuration DTD/EN" "http://hibernate.sf.net/hibernate-configuration-2.0.dtd">

hibernate manual says that it checks the classpath first for the DTD file. This is not happening. I've tried every combination of paths and using SYSTEM instead of PUBLIC.
It will work with a full URL i.e. HTTP://localhost/blah or FILE://c:/blah
But i can't get it to access the hibernate-configuration-2.0.dtd on the classpath.
I have also tried the latest Dom4j1-4.jar to no success.

Any ideas?

I have solved my own problem

DTDEntityResolver:

private static final String URL = "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/";

public InputSource resolveEntity (String publicId, String systemId) {
if ( systemId!=null && systemId.startsWith(URL) ) {
log.debug("trying to locate " + systemId + " in classpath under net/sf/hibernate/");
// Search for DTD
ClassLoader classLoader = this.getClass().getClassLoader();
InputStream dtdStream = classLoader.getResourceAsStream( "net/sf/hibernate/" + systemId.substring( URL.length() ) );


specifically uses string "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/";

I was using "http://hibernate.sf.net/";

Therfore can access the internet but no on the classpath.

Darren.