Hello

I have JARed my application, and when i run the jar, it says cannot find the hibernate.properties and hibernate.cfg.xml files.

Sep 18, 2004 3:24:49 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Environment <clinit>
INFO: hibernate.properties not found
Sep 18, 2004 3:24:49 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Configuration configure
INFO: configuring from resource: /hibernate.cfg.xml
Sep 18, 2004 3:24:49 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Configuration getConfigurationInputStream
INFO: Configuration resource: /hibernate.cfg.xml
Sep 18, 2004 3:24:49 PM net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Configuration getConfigurationInputStream
WARNING: /hibernate.cfg.xml not found


Does anyone know what could be happening? These two files are located in the directory where i run the jar file, hence they should be in the classpath.

I did try adding these two files into the actual application jar file, and that worked, however this surely is not the correct method, since they would become uneditable.

Thanks for any help :)

Hibernate version:
2.1.2

Name and version of the database you are using:
mysql 4.0.18

Seems you don't understand how class loading works...
If build an 'executable' jar and execute it with a command like java -jar <jarfile>, then your classpath is limited to this jar and what is specified in its meta-inf. Therefore, if your properties and hbm config files are located *outside* of the jar (in the same directory as you say) - they won't be accessible to your application.



As per what I said above - that's the correct way to do it: include them in your jar file.

If you wan't them outside, then don't use such 'executable' jar and start your application the 'normal' way...

Hmm..

Is there any other solution?
What if I want to modify the database location in the future ?
(which is specified in the hibernate.properties)

You could pass the location of the hibernate properties file in as a parameter.

Okay..


I'm a total newbieeeee....

Please tell me how do you pass the location of the hibernate.properties
as a parameter.
Is it in the Java code, or in the command line ?


Thanks a lot!!!

Your main() function in your java code will look something like this...



Then do..



or wherever your hibernate.properties is.

Thank you very much!

It works.. you have saved me hours of debugging!