I have an application that needs to add new database mappings at runtime from plugins. Can this be done? Can I just add them to the configuration programmatically or do I need to rebuild the session factory as well?

thanks

Here you go....

SessionFactory sessfact = new Configuration()
.addClass(xx.class)
.addClass(yy.class)
.setProperties(System.getProperties())
.buildSessionFactory();

What i mean is after the first session factory is created. So suppose I initialize my session factory. Then, at a later time my app loads a plugin which has its own hbm.xml file.

I then plan to create a new configuration and add the new mapping file to it. Then create a new session factory and replace the old one.

Is this going to work? Can session factories be replaced at runtime?