Hello,

Does anyone know if there is a standard way to embed Hibernate in a standalone application?

For example, if I include hibernate2.jar in Application.jar, then the classloader won't find it. The only ways I can think of are to either:

1).unpackage hibernate2.jar and put its bare contents into Application.jar

or

2).with Class-Path reference from Application.jar to hibernate2.jar and run them side-by-side, .


Both of these methods seem kind of sloppy. Would it be better to create a custom classloader in Application.jar to load hibernate2.jar? Or is there a better way?

I'd appreciate any thoughts. Thanks in advance.

Itchy

This is not meant to be rude, but don't you think a basic Java introduction would be useful material for you? Of course you reference both JARs, this is called classpath. It is very likely that you will also add other JARs to your classpath for a full application, e.g. your JDBC driver.

>This is not meant to be rude, but don't you think a basic Java introduction would be useful material for you?

Thanks for the advice; however, I think you misunderstood my question. And I don't think the answer would be found in an introductory text. In fact, the answer doesn't appear in my advanced text either.



>Of course you reference both JARs, this is called classpath.

I realize that classpath references are needed for jars.



>It is very likely that you will also add other JARs to your classpath for a full application, e.g. your JDBC driver.

Again, here is my question rephrased: Can all of these jars (hibernate2.jar, JDBC.jar, etc) be placed inside of a single jar?

No, they can't. I also think this is not Hibernate-related.

I only asked it here because I figured this is a normal situation that hibernate developers encounter.

Uhm, thats the case for any Java application that needs more than one class and the JDK libraries. So, you are right, its a very common Java problem.