Hibernate: V3.2.2
Oracle: 11G
Java: 1.6
Apache Tomcat: V6.0.14
Axis2: V.14

I'm attempting to create a webservice that uses an Axis2 soap server to make hibernate persisted data available via SOAP/XML to a flash application.

I've setup an Axis soap server with some very simple services that attempt to retrieve data via hibernate from an Oracle database. I've added a jar file containing all my hibernate required classes and mapping files to the axis/WEB-INF/lib. Also I've copied my hibernate.cfg.xml to the axis/WEB-INF/classes.

When I attempt to invoke the service, it fails while attempting to initialize the hibenate configuration because it can't find the mapping files.

Any suggestions?

Also, although I have some experience building hibernate based systems (using thick java clients) I'm new to integrating hibernate with webservices. Any recommended resources/howto's on the topic whould be appreciated.