The way I understand it is because I'm loading Course.class before User.class and Course.class refers to User.class it's saying that User.class doesn't exist yet. It's the chicken or the egg situation. How can I fix this?

Hibernate Version: 3.2.5

Code##################################

SessionFactory factory = new Configuration()
.addClass(Course.class)
.addClass(User.class)
.setProperties(props)
.buildSessionFactory();

Hbm################################
<class name="org.savvylms.api.course.Course" table="SV_COURSES">
<id name="id" column="sv_id">
<generator class="identity"/>
</id>
<property name="name" column="sv_name"/>
<property name="type" column="sv_type"/>

<set name="users" table="SV_COURSE_USER">
<key column="sv_course_id"/>
<many-to-many class="User" column="sv_user_id"/>
</set>

</class>


<class name="org.savvylms.api.user.User" table="SV_USERS">
<id name="id" column="sv_id">
<generator class="identity"/>
</id>
<property name="username" column="sv_username"/>
<property name="password" column="sv_password"/>
<property name="fname" column="sv_fname"/>
<property name="lname" column="sv_lname"/>
<property name="email" column="sv_email"/>

<!--map name="attributes">
<key column="sv_user_id" on-delete="cascade" not-null="true"/>
</map-->

<set name="courses" table="SV_COURSE_USER" inverse="true">
<key column="sv_user_id"/>
<many-to-many class="Course" column="sv_course_id"/>
</set>

</class>

Stack##############################
INFO: Mapping collection: org.savvylms.api.user.User.courses -> SV_COURSE_USER
Exception in thread "main" org.hibernate.MappingException: An association from the table SV_COURSE_USER refers to an unmapped class: User
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.secondPassCompileForeignKeys(Configuration.java:1252)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.secondPassCompile(Configuration.java:1170)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1286)

I just changed to use the hibernate.cfg.xml and it still gives me the same error. So I'm mapping something wrong. But what?

I simply changed my mappings to full paths. So this:

<many-to-many class="org.savvylms.api.user.User" column="sv_user_id"/>

Simple enough. Is this a good method? Or should I be using something else here?