I have a small test project, it contains what appear to be identical property files, one "hibernate.properties" and one "hibernate.xfg.xml". When I run SchemaUpdate with --properties everything is ok, when I run it with --config I get an error that the file cannot be found. I have tried using a fully-qualified path and still get the error. Any suggestions anyone?

Hibernate version: 2.1.6

Full stack trace of any exception that occurs:

Sep 13, 2004 11:31:59 AM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Environment <clinit>
INFO: Hibernate 2.1.6
Sep 13, 2004 11:31:59 AM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Environment <clinit>
INFO: loaded properties from resource hibernate.properties: {hibernate.connection.driver_class=com.ihost.cs.jdbc.CloudscapeDriver, hibernate.default_schema=real
life, hibernate.cglib.use_reflection_optimizer=true, hibernate.dialect=net.sf.hibernate.dialect.DerbyDialect, hibernate.connection.username=sa, hibernate.connection.url=jdbc:cloudscape:d:/My Projects/RealLife/RealLife, hibernate.show_sql=true, hibernate.connection.password=, hibernate.connection.pool_size=2}
Sep 13, 2004 11:31:59 AM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Environment <clinit>
INFO: using CGLIB reflection optimizer
Sep 13, 2004 11:31:59 AM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Configuration configure
INFO: configuring from resource: hibernate.cfg.xml
Sep 13, 2004 11:31:59 AM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Configuration getConfigurationInputStream
INFO: Configuration resource: hibernate.cfg.xml
Sep 13, 2004 11:31:59 AM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Configuration getConfigurationInputStream
WARNING: hibernate.cfg.xml not found
Sep 13, 2004 11:31:59 AM net.sf.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaUpdate main
SEVERE: Error running schema update
net.sf.hibernate.HibernateException: hibernate.cfg.xml not found
at net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.getConfigurationInputStream(Configuration.java:872)
at net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.configure(Configuration.java:896)
at net.sf.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaUpdate.main(SchemaUpdate.java:65)

net.sf.hibernate.HibernateException: hibernate.cfg.xml not found
at net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.getConfigurationInputStream(Configuration.java:872)
at net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.configure(Configuration.java:896)
at net.sf.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaUpdate.main(SchemaUpdate.java:65)

Name and version of the database you are using: Cloudscape 10b

The generated SQL (show_sql=true): don't get this far!

which tool are you using? what kind of classpath-ing is going on?

Am using SchemaUpdate, the entire command (I've added newlines to break up the classpath) is as follows:

d:\j2sdk1.4.2_05\bin\java -cp .;
d:\Cloudscape10b\lib\cs.jar;
d:\Cloudscape10b\lib\csnet.jar;
d:\Cloudscape10b\lib\cstools.jar;
d:\Cloudscape10b\lib\db2jcc.jar;
d:\Cloudscape10b\lib\db2jcc_license_c.jar;
d:\hibernate-2.1\src;
d:\hibernate-2.1\derby.jar;
d:\hibernate-2.1\hibernate2.jar;
d:\hibernate-2.1\tools\hibernate-tools.jar;
d:\hibernate-2.1\lib\cglib-2.0-rc2.jar;
d:\hibernate-2.1\lib\odmg-3.0.jar;
d:\hibernate-2.1\lib\xml-apis.jar;
d:\hibernate-2.1\lib\dom4j-1.4.jar;
d:\hibernate-2.1\lib\xerces-2.4.1.jar;
d:\hibernate-2.1\lib\xalan-2.4.1.jar;
d:\hibernate-2.1\tools\lib\jdom.jar;
d:\hibernate-2.1\lib\commons-logging-1.0.4.jar;
d:\hibernate-2.1\lib\commons-collections-2.1.1.jar;
d:\hibernate-2.1\lib\commons-lang-1.0.1.jar;
.\generated
net.sf.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaUpdate --format --output=.\schema.ddl --config=hibernate.cfg.xml Account.hbm-xml

Try adding the hibernate.cfg.xml to the classpath list as well.
This is part of the reason I always rely on ant, or even maven to help me with those things.

Well, the hibernat.cfg.xml is in the current directory, which is the first entry in the classpath "." and I modified my script to also add the directory explicity to the classpath. None of this *seemed* to make a difference.

Instead of "--config=hibernate.cfg.xml" try "--config=/hibernate.cfg.xml".
The method "getResourceAsStream" needs a slash "/".

Well, that seemed to work, although it is not exactly obvious. Perhaps the documentation should describe this?

Of course, see java.lang.Class.getResourceAsStream

But, I am a client of SchemaUpdate, why should I know or care that getResourceAsStream is used internally? and for all I know that might change over time anyway.