I am using Hibernate Tools 3.4.CR2. I am using Hibernate annotations in my code but I have the class "<mapping resource=..." in two separate files so that the main hibernate.cfg.xml has no classes listed.

When I add the additional files to the configuration on the Mappings tab, I end up with no classes listed under the session factory. However when I create a consolidated hibernate.cfg.xml with all the annotated classes identified in the same file it works like a charm.

I really would like to use the separate mapping files so I don't have to maintain an additional file just for hibernate tools. Is this possible?

sorry I don't follow - are you saying that none of the mapping files added on the mappings tab shows up or ?

btw. why do you spread out the two files - just curious ?

if you used Hibernate Entitymanager you would not need to list anything since it supports auto scanning of entities and hbm.xml.

There are three parts to this:
- application war file
- application model jar file
- common muli-application model jar file

Each of the two jar files has its own hbm.xml that just lists the classes it provides.

I can add these files in the hibernate tools but it just doesn't seem to use them. I end up with no entity classes available in the list. Yet when we load these files from application code it all works fine.

The only way I have been able to get it to work is to combine the lists of classes into one hibernate.cfg.xml and then hibernate tools is happy.

please report a bug with the simplest example that makes this fail.