My Project directory structure is
web-inf
classes
hibernate
*.hbm.xml

when i call below method
configuration.addFile("\\hibernate\\SystemMessages.hbm.xml");

i am getting the exception


org.hibernate.MappingNotFoundException: file: .\hibernate\SystemMessages.hbm.xml not found
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.addFile(Configuration.java:301)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.addFile(Configuration.java:287)
at com.conductor.analytics.uiapi.factory.HibernateSessionFactory.<clinit>(HibernateSessionFactory.java:53)
at com.conductor.analytics.uiapi.factory.BaseHibernateDAO.getSession(BaseHibernateDAO.java:35)
at com.conductor.analytics.uiapi.dao.impl.GlobalConfigDAOImpl.findById(GlobalConfigDAOImpl.java:92)
at com.conductor.analytics.uiapi.util.PropertiesResource.getGlobalConfigValueByKey(PropertiesResource.java:51)
at com.conductor.analytics.uiapi.scheduler.QuartzSchedulerServlet.init(QuartzSchedulerServlet.java:42)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1139)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:966)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:3956)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4230)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:760)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:740)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:544)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:831)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:720)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:490)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1149)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:120)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1022)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:736)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1014)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:448)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:700)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:552)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:295)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:433)

In the Java class where you are loading the configuration file, write some Java code to create a new java.io.File object and print out its location.

This'll tell you where your Java class thinks it is...then figure out the relative path from that location to your hibernate configuration file.

It's possible you may have to use a path such as "..\..\hibernate\xyz.hbm.xml"