I am trying to get a test jsf application to work on the standard jboss 4.2.0 AS server. I am using eclipse as the IDE. I set the build path in my eclipse project to point to jboss/default/lib jar files for hibernate and other required jars.

when I deployed the application everythings works as it should until I make a call from a backing bean to query or load a hibernate class. I get the following error: "org.hibernate.MappingException: Unknown entity: com.ipi.jsfapp.model.People".

The configuration snippets are:

########hibernate.cfg.xml###################
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">

<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory name="mdp-sf">
<property name="show_sql">
true
</property>
<!-- Mapping files -->
<mapping resource="com/ipi/jsfapp/model/People.hbm.xml"/>
</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

############### hibernate.properties #################
..
## MySQL

hibernate.dialect org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect
#hibernate.dialect org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect
#hibernate.dialect org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLMyISAMDialect
hibernate.connection.driver_class com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
hibernate.connection.url jdbc:mysql://localhost/myDB
hibernate.connection.username username
hibernate.connection.password xxxxxxx
..

########### People.hbm.xml #######################
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">
<!-- Generated May 27, 2007 7:19:14 PM by Hibernate Tools 3.2.0.beta7 -->
<hibernate-mapping package="com.ipi.jsfapp.model">
<class name="People" table="people" catalog="myDB">
<comment></comment>
<id name="peopleid" type="int">
<column name="peopleid" />
<generator class="native" />
</id>
<property name="firstName" type="string">
<column name="first_name" length="45">
<comment></comment>
</column>
</property>
<property name="middleInitial" type="string">
<column name="middle_initial" length="1">
<comment></comment>
</column>
</property>
<property name="lastName" type="string">
<column name="last_name" length="65">
<comment></comment>
</column>
</property>
</class>
</hibernate-mapping>

############# People.java ######################

package com.ipi.jsfapp.model;
// Generated May 27, 2007 7:19:11 PM by Hibernate Tools 3.2.0.beta7



/**
* People generated by hbm2java
*/
public class People implements java.io.Serializable {

// Fields

private int peopleid;
private String firstName;
private String middleInitial;
private String lastName;

// Constructors

/** default constructor */
public People() {
}

/** minimal constructor */
public People(int peopleid) {
this.peopleid = peopleid;
}
/** full constructor */
public People(int peopleid, String firstName, String middleInitial, String lastName) {
this.peopleid = peopleid;
this.firstName = firstName;
this.middleInitial = middleInitial;
this.lastName = lastName;
}

// Property accessors
public int getPeopleid() {
return this.peopleid;
}

public void setPeopleid(int peopleid) {
this.peopleid = peopleid;
}
public String getFirstName() {
return this.firstName;
}

public void setFirstName(String firstName) {
this.firstName = firstName;
}
public String getMiddleInitial() {
return this.middleInitial;
}

public void setMiddleInitial(String middleInitial) {
this.middleInitial = middleInitial;
}
public String getLastName() {
return this.lastName;
}

public void setLastName(String lastName) {
this.lastName = lastName;
}

}


############### backing bean call ####################

public static suggestionBean getSuggestionBean() {

int peopleid = 1;
Configuration cfg = new Configuration();
SessionFactory sf = cfg.buildSessionFactory();
String address = randomString(suggestedAddresses);
String password = randomString(chars, 8);
/*
* Insert some hibernate to get the user name from db.
*/
People p = new People();
Session session = sf.openSession();

p = (People) session.load(People.class, peopleid);

password = p.getFirstName();
address = p.getLastName();
session.close();
return(new suggestionBean(address, password));
}

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The hibernate configuration files are at the root of the jsf app.

Any input would be greatly appreciated!!