Like ant, does hibernate support import of another subset config..
This would ease xml configuration maintance. e.g

some thing like this

main.cfg.xml:

?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory>
<import file="mysql.xml"/>
</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

mysql.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory>
<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">
org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver
</property>
<property name="hibernate.dialect">
com.tejasoft.utils.hibernate.TejaSQLDialect
</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.username">tezzd</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.password">abc123</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.autoReconnect">true</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.pool_size">4</property>
</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

As of now, Hibernate does not support import of xmls.

Any plans to support his in future.. this is a very import and simple feature and could help a lot in xml file maintance..

I see it supports this feature in programatic way some thing like this..

Configuration lConf = new AnnotationConfiguration();
lConf.configure("/resources/hibernate.common.cfg.xml");
lConf.configure(
ConfigHelper.locateConfig("resources/hibernate.cfg.xml"));
sessionFactory = lConf.buildSessionFactory();

Exposing this in xml tag way would be a nice to see in near feature..

Regards,
Nagendra