Hello,

Upon trying to get underway with hibernate (specifically setting up with Tomcat and Struts). I have found many, many examples of obtaining a sessionFactory object.

Currently I have two different approaches. ####

1) singleton class obj:
Configuration cfg = new Configuration().addClass(Track.class).
addClass(Artist.class);
sessionFactory = cfg.buildSessionFactory();

And in order for that to work, I put a fiile called "hibernate.properties" in classes with this information:
hibernate.dialect=net.sf.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect
hibernate.connection.driver_class=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
hibernate.connection.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/notebook_db
hibernate.connection.username=jim
hibernate.connection.password=s3cret
-- and it works like a champ. ----

2) Another configuration I have is a struts plug in from article here <http://www.hibernate.org/105.html>
uses a struts plug in, but uses a 'hibernate.cfg.xml' file under /classes.

I really like the ability to use the hibernate.cfg.xml file, because I can add mappings without compiling. So I would like to know how I can configure the singleton class above to use that instead of the one it is automatically picking up.

Thanks,

hibernate.cfg.xml must be in your classpath.