I want create separate mapping files for each table, for example i want to separate the
following example into two files called Place.hbm.xml,Person.hbm.xml[each class has its own
mapping file]. Then how do i associate these two files for one-to-many relationship ?


Can some help ?

<hibernate-mapping>
<class name="com.peopleplacesmodel.model.Place" table="AUCTIONS">
<id name="ID" type="string" unsaved-value="null">
<column name="ID" sql-type="char(32)" not-null="true" />
<generator class="uuid.hex" />
</id>
------------------
------------------
------------------
------------------
<set name="person" lazy="true">
<key column="AUCTID" />
<one-to-many class="com.peopleplacesmodel.model.Person" />
</set>
</class>
<class name="com.peopleplacesmodel.model.Person" table="PRTDIRVIEW">
<composite-id name="personName" class="com.peopleplacesmodel.model.PersonPK">
<key-property name="AUCTID" />
<key-property name="PRTLNAME" />
<key-property name="PRTFNAME" />
</composite-id>
------------------
------------------
------------------
</class>
</hibernate-mapping>

Hibernate will not try and match up class names across mapping files until you do the cfg.buildSessionFactory().



Sherman

I understand that you are loading all the required mapping files.
Made a little change which is working fine.
Mapping directory has all the xml files per class.

private void prepareConfiguration() throws Exception
{
cfg = new Configuration().addDirectory(new File ("../src/com/peopleplacesmodel/mapping"));
sf = cfg.buildSessionFactory();
session = sf.openSession();
}