Hibernate version: 2.0

Sorry for this beginners question but I did not find it in the doc and the examples are all intended to be run from the hibernate install directory...

I am testing Hibernate without an app-server and simply wants to be able to run my examples from any directory on my machine (I have put my files in a JBuilder project located on another drive than were hibernate is installed and this is the "home directory" were Jbuilder execute my examples) or on a friends machine after packaging it all as JAR-files.

I have figured out what dependent JARS to use (I think!) ect but I need to specify the location of the hibernate install directory!

I would like an example of a complete command line to pass to my application in order for it to be able to use hibernate and start from any directory...

How are by the way the files in the hibernate install catalog accessed - can I include them in a JAR-file or must they be "installed" on every machine were I run my application???

I have understood the doc in the way that I can put the Java -> SQL mapping anywhere in my class path - I hope this is correct...

As you can see I have little experience with web-apps or deploying Java and hibernate but I hope somebody still is willing to take the time to answer....

:hmm:
i'm not sure if i've completly understood your problem ...

Put the hibernate-config-file 'hibernate.cfg.xml' in your classpath (root) and that will work on every computer ...
Put the hibernate-mapping-files in your classpath (same location as the mapped java-classes) and that will work, too. Or put them into a directory of your choice and make it configurable ... (for the beginning, i think putting them into classpath is a better solution) ...
The last thing what have to be done is your classpath ... if you keep it relative ... everything will be perfect ...

Hope that helps a little bit ...

gtx
curio

Ok I think I understand now - I will try that...

I was looking at the hibernate/etc directory and there were a whole bunch of different config files there and I assumed that all of them needed to be located by hibernate (or its dependent products) somehow and that the way to do that should be to tell hibernate the location of the hibernate install (or etc) directory using a define on the command line or something....

Thanks a lot!

- Trist

in some special situtations you will need some more config-files ...

but for simple applications (without an app-server, second-level-cache and so on) you only need the hibernate.cfg.xml and your mapping files ...

And if you want the loggings ... you'll need the "log4j.properties" of course in your classpath.

Have fun :)
curio

Is it possible to specify the name of the default config file on the command line? (e.g. if you want to change the config file used when running unit tests)

When using unit tests I create the configuration programmatically.

In this case, the code being tested creates the SessionFactory using the automatic configuration file finding. So the unit test doesn't have a say in how the tested code loads its configuration (unless there were a way to specify the default name of the configuration file as a property for the JVM).

You might want to use the -D option on the command line. which is what I do and have the code check for it before building the sessionfactory.