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Hibernate version:
3
Mapping documents:
None

Code between sessionFactory.openSession() and session.close():
None. But we are doing:

Configuration c = new Configuration();
c.addFile(fileName);
SessionFactory factory = c.configure().buildSessionFactory();

and it blows up because it can't find the cfg file. I promise, it is where fileName says it is.

But it looks like the Hibernate source code ignores the setting. When you call configure, this is the method


which doesn't look like it's paying any attention to the files a calling class might add.

Am I misunderstanding/reading?

What I need to do is give Hibernate cfg file that's not in the application's path.

Thanks

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Ok,

I did some more research on this. By using Class' classLoader, it looks like there may be some limitation on the file's location (not sure I understand why, but there's a lot of text in the docs for Class.getResourceAsStream()).

So I tried configure() off a URL (that points to the same file).


This is working, albeit kind of cumbersome.

If anyone can give me some more info on this I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks
Scott
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you apparently doesnt have /hibernate.cfg.xml in your classpath.

Max,

Thanks for your note.

As far as I can tell, it IS in the classpath. Maybe it's not. The file itself is in another Eclipse project which I believe I have correclty added to the Run as... classpath.

But the error does not occur when I addFile(). I've traced through the code and Configure happily parses it and creates the Mapping object.

The failure occurs when I call configure(), at which time it seems Hibernate is hard-coded to look for '/hibernate.cfg.xml'.

Reading the JavaDocs nn getResourceAsStream() I can see that "/" has some special meaning (to be honest I don't understand what exactly). But still, the "hibernate.cfg.xml" part is hard-code and it doesn't seem that it ever looks to the files that were added with addFile() to get the configuration information.

In short, I guess I'm confused why addFile() exists if the file name is hardcoded in configure().

If anyone on the forum could help me understand I'd really appreciate it. In our application, each client front end will need its own configuration file, which is why addFile() was so interesting: we thought we could have clientName.cfg.xml and be done.

Thanks
Scott

addFile is for adding mapping files (hbm.xml), adding a cfg.xml will just be a noop since it does not contain the xml for a hbm.xml

configure(xxx) is for configuring via .cfg.xml files. "/hibernate.cfg.xml" is the default location, which means "in the root of the classpath, find hibernate.cfg.xml"