I am getting the common cannot find /hibernate.cfg.xml when creating the session. I've read all the posts on this topic and tried putting the file in the root of the EAR and adding a Manifest entry to add Class-Path of "."....to no avail.

I've also tried to Explicitly load the XML document via:

Configuration cfg = new Configuration();
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = builder.parse(this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("/hibernate.cfg.xml"));
_hibernateSF = cfg.configure(doc).buildSessionFactory();

This doesn't work either, and it brings up a couple of questions:

- first, why wouldn't this work (probably a stupid error)?
- second, why is the Configure.configure(org.dom4j.Document) method protected, when this one isn't?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Vince

On which archive file did you try setting the manifest classpath entry? It should be the ejb jar, not the ear.

Also, which app server?