Hi all!

I want to avoid loading of hibernate.properties while creating instance of Configuration class. Is it possible? (This file is in the root of my classpath).

Sincerely,
Igor Deruga

Hibernate version: 3.0

dont put it there in the first place ;)

Well, thanks, max!

I would do it this way, but circumstances don't allow me to do so. I have that "bad" config file in the root of the classpath, and I can't move it. I'm surprised that Configuration class doesn't have a constructor that takes an URL or File parameter. I thought someone would have needed it long time ago.

Any other ideas?

well, put the properties in a cfg.xml and use one of the methods to load it explicitly and it will override settings in global defined hibernate.properties

That's a good decidion, but it doesn't fit either. I'll explain situation. I have a webapp that uses main configuration file to work with MS SQL server. And I have a test method that is supposed to use an in-memory database (HSQL DB) to test some queries. But when I create configuration instnace (new Configuration()), it loads the main config file and throws some exceptions because environment doesn't contain necessary settings.

That's the reason I need to load _only_ my configuration file.