This is probably a silly question. But I am hibernatizing a huge app and I have tons of classes, I am organizing them into different hibernate mapping files. However I have come across instances where I have a class mapping in one file but need access to it in another file.

I always get this error:


If i then put that mapping in the file i have to move others and next thing you know all my mappings are in the same file. I am using spring and when I create my session factory I am doing it with all the files like so:



I figured that hibernate would be ok with the references but apparently not. Is there a way to do this, i looked in the documentation but didn't see anything?

the typical scenario is to go with one class, one mapping file. the mapping files go in the same directory/package as the class . for example, if your model consisted of com.foo.DJ and org.foo.TurnTable, you would have this in hibernate.cfg.xml

<mapping resource="com/foo/DJ.hbm.xml" />
<mapping resource="org/foo/TurnTable.hbm.xml" />

keep in mind that any reference to the other class would need the full class name because they are not in the same package.