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We have created a server application that utilizes Hibernate to make database updates. However, when deploying at the customer sites, we find that the hibernate.cfg.xml file needs to be customized per site. The problem is that this file is always contained inside the jar in the appropriate package where the Hibernate Factory code is located. In order to modify this xml file, we need to rebuild the jar with the xml file modifications in it.

Is there an easier way to do this? Can we deploy the application without having to have the cfg.xml contained in the package where it is called? Can it exist outside the jar?

The cfg.xml file simply needs to be accessible from the classpath. It does not necessarily have to be inside an archive.

Configuration also understands system properties.

Going with your recommendation, I placed the configuration file (hibernate.cfg.xml) in the following location: C:\<tomcat>\webapps\<app name>\WEB-INF\lib

The configuration file was contained in a jar located in the lib directory, now it is sitting next to the jar.

I changed the configuration factory class to use this path to the file:

String CONFIG_FILE_LOCATION = "/hibernate.cfg.xml";

and hibernate at runtime cannot find it. Ideas?

Thanks,
Mark

Put it in WEB_INF/classes