I have Hibernate working with the hibernate properties file and the Configuration setup like this:
Configuration cfg = new Configuration().addClass(Customer.class) -- etc.

Now I want a single mapping file for all class-table mappings. I changed the Configuration to this:

Configuration cfg = new Configuration().addFile("/com/company/app/common/hibernate/Mapping.hbm.xml")

Then I put the mapping file under classes like so: /com/company/app/common/hibernate/Mapping.hbm.xml. But I get the mapping exception below (I am using Tomcat version 5).

12:06:34,066 INFO Environment:481 - using CGLIB reflection optimizer
12:06:34,082 INFO Configuration:166 - Mapping file: com/company/app/common/hibernate/Mapping.hbm.xml
12:06:34,145 ERROR Configuration:174 - Could not configure datastore from file:
com/company/app/common/hibernate/Mapping.hbm.xml
java.net.MalformedURLException:
\com\company\app\common\hibernate\Mapping.hbm.xml
(The system cannot find the path specified)

Any ideas?

Rgds,
Jeff.

Try removing the leading "/". Different environments are varyingly sensitive to it.

If you're doing it programatically anyway, you can always resolve the resource manually and then pass in the full URL path to it.

Removing the forward slash did not work (I am using Tomcat).

>>If you're doing it programatically anyway, you can always resolve the >> resource manually and then pass in the full URL path to it.

Not sure what you mean by this. Is there a code sample?

Check the Url object in the Java API