Hi,

In my application I have a process that can accept plugin modules to run. Each such plug-in can use its own sub class of one of my tables (I am usinf the 'table per sub class' startegy). The problem is that those plug-ins are deployed in separate JAR files and loaded dynamically into the application using a diefferent class loader (one class loader per plugin). The loading of JARs and creating the plugins class loaders is done only after I have already created my session factory, hence loaded all my mapping files.

I can think of some solutions to solve the problem of loading the plugin mapping files dynamically, but the bigger problem seems to be: how to tell Hibernate to load the classes from the plug-in class loader?

Thanks for any help!

set the context classlaoder before you access your plugin code and reset afterwards.

How do handle this for everything else?

Also remember to put the concrete classes in the Configuration.

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