Hi,
at the said line I am unable to understand the following atatement
" if you have both hibernate.properties and hibernate.cfg.xml in the classpath". What I fail to understand is which classpath are you talking about?.The Global classpath i.e the machines .bash_profile CLASSPATH or the programs classpath. Secondly why do I have to copy hibernate3.jar into $JAVA_HOME/jdk/jre/lib/ext else my JBOSS integration keeps on repeating org/hibernate/Session NoClassDefFound Error.

Thanks
Deep

I've no idea, but you are in the wrong forum.