I created a little class that uses hbm2ddl to generate schemas.

If I point to the projects default hibernate.cfg.xml it works nicelly.

But I what I need it to do is to locate an outside hibernate.cfg.xml file (this I can do easely) and make it find the hbm files referenced in it (this is what I'm not being able to do).

So... what can I do to tell the program:

D:/test/hibernate.cfg.xml is where you find the cfg file (as I said... thsi part works...)

and

D:/test/(*whatever folder/files the hibernate.cfg.xml points in his mapping list*) is where you find the mappings. (this is what I'm desperate to make work).

i have no idea what you are talking about ;)

if hibernate.cfg.xml refers to files it will automatically be loaded by hibernate - no need to additional things.

p.s. you of course have to have those files on the disk (if you use file) or have them in the classpath (if you use resource)

Well, that's what happens...

When I have a folder outside my workspace with this structure:

<folder>
hibernate.cfg.xml
<subfolder>
*.hbm.xml

Where hibernate.cfg.xml has the files under the subfolder mapped, I can make the hbm2ddl find the file (using file, like you said) but hibernate will complain it can't find the files referenced by the cfg.

IF I have the same structure inside my workspace, the damned thing works. And hibernate finds the mapped files and creates the schema properly.

That's my problem. The final version of the program will have to work with files outside it's workspace.

please show me your cfg.xml file then I can understand better (hopefully)

...the files in there of course needs to be available and if not how do you expect hibernate to reach them ?

There's nothing special about the cfg. It's just like anyother correct one. :P

As I said, the problem is where I put the file and the hbm.xml.

If I arrange everythin in a correct way (Like exemplified above) it works IF it's placed inside my program's folder (as if it were part of the program, being shown in eclipse/rad's package explorer).

It's like, I can use hbm2ddl to create schemas from hbm files inside the same project but I can't quite affect files anywhere in my hard drive even though it locates my hibernate.cfg.xml anywhere in my HD.

And I need it to operate anywhere in my HD, not just inside the folder.

A final attempt to make it clearer:

This works:
D:\Workspace\hbm2ddlProject\hbm2ddlpackacge\hbm2ddlclass
D:\Workspace\hibernateGeneric.cfg.xml (points hbm files under \test\pojo)
D:\Workspace\test\pojo\*.hbm.xml

This doesn't work:
D:\Workspace\hbm2ddlProject\hbm2ddlpackacge\hbm2ddlclass
D:\SomewhereElseInTheHd\hibernateGeneric.cfg.xml (points hbm files under \test\pojo, file is found by the application)
D:\SomewhereElseInTheHd\test\pojo\*.hbm.xml (files are not found by the application)

I hope I made it clearer now. :)

your explanation doesn't say anything if you don't show how your cfg.xml actually looks like.

Without it my previous explanation is also enough - the files have to be available according to the mapping method you use in cfg.xml.

IMHO Falci wants to have the mapping files separated from the class files.

I posted something to this here: http://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.ph ... 95#2356095