Hello there

I am developing an application that uses hibernate. My application supports the notion of plugins. These plugins will each have their own configuration to manage. I would like to write the plugin framework to ensure that the plugins will use hibernate to store configuration. I plan to use a system similar to what is listed in the Hibernate tutorial, and I see that the hibernate.properties file listed under section 1.2.3 lists the mapping resource file.
Can I still programatically load a mapping resource file for the case where a plugin for my application is loaded at runtime? If so, where can I find an example.

Thank you.