Hello. I've searched thru general posts, main doc in "getting started" and faqs also.
An no place I have found where to put (and how to indicate then to the app) the
hibernate.cgf.xml.
As I already have it, its packed in my jars from my root src dir as doc says, but the trouble
is I can't recompile/redistribute the app for different databases/users etc. I need this file
to be somewhere in the directory structure of my app so any administrator can edit it
when needed for commented matters.
Thanks in advance.

It should work just the same if you don't put it in your jar file. It'll be on the classpath whether it's in your jar file or not.



if by some odd reason it doesn't, you'll just have to have somewhere where the client can specify where the hibernate.cfg.xml file is and have your app load it.

I've already put the hibernate.cfg.xml in the root directory of my app, and then included
its reference in classpath before any other thing; and does not work.

Not exactly as i wanted (something must be missed) but it works. As i have a directory
structure which includes a conf directory, i would like to have the hibernate.cfg.xml there,
but it seems not possible directly.
So I put it in the root directory of the app and then do:

java ...... -cp ./hibernate.cfg.xml:$CLASSPATH .........

the only way i got it.

No way. What i told in my former post it is not true.
It is still not useful the -cp ./hibernate.cfg.xml : $CLASSPATH.
I'm starting to get desperate with such an apparently simple matter. : (

manually load the file using Spring or something then.

But it's not clear to me the sentence that says "Hibernate automatically looks for a file called hibernate.cfg.xml in the root of the classpath",
does this mean what i tried is correct, i mean, to launch java -cp hibernate.cfg.xml:$CLASSPATH <myclass> is correct or an aberration ?.

pleeeeeeeease :)

I believe the -cp argument to java takes a list of directories and jars. So in your case, you need to specify the directory that contains the hibernate.cfg.xml file, rather than the file name itself.

thanks a lot, really; easy matter, easy answer.

(stupidme stupidme stupidme stupidme n times)

Hi

you create a project and put the hibernate.cfg.xml in the src folder of root directory (i mean you r root directory) and you set the class path to hibernate3.jar file this is one way OR You are using any IDE suppose you take Eclipse . in that Eclipse you add hibernate plug-ins that is easy to develop the hibernate application If you have doubt send back a mail

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