I have provided bellow the required data. Now the problem.

I want to have hibernate.cfg.xml (and other config files) together with web.xml, that is, in WEB-INF directory. I'm using Tomcat 6, btw. So, I've changed the HibernateUtil class as follows:

public class HibernateUtil {

private static Log log = LogFactory.getLog(HibernateUtil.class);
private static SessionFactory sessionFactory;

public static final void init(ServletContext context) {
try {
sessionFactory = new AnnotationConfiguration().configure(context.getRealPath("WEB-INF/hibernate.cfg.xml")).buildSessionFactory();
} catch (Throwable ex) {
// Log exception
log.error(ex, ex);
throw new ExceptionInInitializerError(ex);
}
}

public static Session getSession() throws HibernateException {
return sessionFactory.openSession();
}
}

I call the init(ServletContext) method from a ContextFilter.init so that I can provide the context. Given this scenario, I get the exception listed bellow, altough the xml is in the right location. If I place hibernate.cfg.xml in class path and use configure() (that is, no params version) everything works as expected.

A secondary problem here is that I can't convince hibernate (or log4j for that matter) to output more than INFO logging. I'm not proficient with log4j and I appologize for that. I used and changed the log4j.properties file included in hibernate distribution, please see bellow the excerpt.

Thank you for your time.


Hibernate version: 3.2.6 with Hibernate Annotations 3.3.0.GA

Mapping documents:

Code between sessionFactory.openSession() and session.close(): doesn't get that far

Full stack trace of any exception that occurs:
org.hibernate.HibernateException: D:\Java\tomcat\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\hibernate.cfg.xml not found
at org.hibernate.util.ConfigHelper.getResourceAsStream(ConfigHelper.java:147)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.getConfigurationInputStream(Configuration.java:1411)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.configure(Configuration.java:1433)
at ro.level7.tds.utils.HibernateUtil.init(HibernateUtil.java:22)
at ro.level7.tds.ContextFilter.init(ContextFilter.java:31)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:275)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.setFilterDef(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:397)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.<init>(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:108)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(StandardContext.java:3696)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4343)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:525)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory(HostConfig.java:920)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectories(HostConfig.java:883)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:492)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1138)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:117)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:719)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:516)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:566)
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:288)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413)


Name and version of the database you are using: irrelevant for the issue
The generated SQL (show_sql=true): irrelevant for the issue

Debug level Hibernate log excerpt:
log4j.rootLogger=debug, stdout
log4j.logger.org.hibernate=debug

Hi,

I believe that Configuration.configure(String resource) is actually using a class called config handler to load the specified resource via the classpath. Try to use Configuration.configure(File f) or Configuration.configure(Url url).

So in your example:

Thanx a lot, it worked. Pin point solution :)

Then what's the use of the String flavored method of Configuration?