Help needed with Hibernate properties file

ishfady · **Joined:** Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:44 am **Posts:** 11

Hi

I am very new to Hibernate technology.

I have created Hibernate.properties and Hibarnet.cfg.xml.
I have place both this files into a project root directory.

When I run my test application. It find hibernate.properties and hibernate.cfg.xml files. But for some reason, data in a hibernate.cfg.xml is empy. Data from properties file is not been pickup my hibernate.cfg.xml.

Doesn't hibernate.cfg.xml, suppose to pickup data automatically from properties files.

here is the files
hibernate.properties

# dialect to be used
hibernate.dialect = org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect
# driver used
hibernate.connection.driver_class=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
# database name
hibernate.connection.url=jdbc:mysql:///myTest

hibernate.cfg.xml
<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory>
<property name="dialect"></property>
<property name="connection.driver_class"></property>
<property name="connection.url"></property>
</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

I was expected property: name, connection.driver_class, connection.url to be pickup from hibernate.properties file.

I am lost here.

Please could you help me.

Many thank

moonlight · **Joined:** Mon Aug 29, 2005 9:46 am **Posts:** 102

What directory are they in? Can you show us the structure?

ishfady · **Joined:** Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:44 am **Posts:** 11

ishfady wrote:

Hi

I am very new to Hibernate technology.

I have created Hibernate.properties and Hibarnet.cfg.xml.
I have place both this files into a project root directory with all other java files.

C:\myTest <---- name of my Project

When I run my test application. It find hibernate.properties and hibernate.cfg.xml files. But for some reason, data in a hibernate.cfg.xml is empy. Data from properties file is not been pickup my hibernate.cfg.xml.

Doesn't hibernate.cfg.xml, suppose to pickup data automatically from properties files.

here is the files
hibernate.properties

# dialect to be used
hibernate.dialect = org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect
# driver used
hibernate.connection.driver_class=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
# database name
hibernate.connection.url=jdbc:mysql:///myTest

hibernate.cfg.xml
<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory>
<property name="dialect"></property>
<property name="connection.driver_class"></property>
<property name="connection.url"></property>
</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

I was expected property: name, connection.driver_class, connection.url to be pickup from hibernate.properties file.

I am lost here.

Please could you help me.

Many thank

pksiv · **Posted:** Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:24 am

I see you've asked this same question twice but the answer is the same.

If you specify both files, then the hibernate.cfg.xml will overwrite the hibernate.properties file. Since you have the fields specified, with empty values, the empty values overwrite the valid values. You only need to use 1 of these files. Just specify all of the details in the hibernate.cfg.xml and everything should work fine.

See Section 4.7 in the Hibernate 3 Reference Doc.