I have quite a few tables to be mapped and I don't want all the mapping files into one directory. So if I organize the mapping into different packages how to import the pacakge names into the mapping files?.

For example here is a mapping file

<hibernate-mapping package="com.skila.iworksite.notify.model">

<class name="SkilaNotification" table="SKILA_NOTIFICATION">
<id name="notificationId" column="NOTIFICATION_ID" type="long">
<generator class="sequence"/>
</id>

<property name="notificationType" column="NOTIFICATION_TYPE" type="string" not-null="true" />
<property name="notificationDate" column="NOTIFICATION_DATE" type="date" not-null="true" />

<many-to-one name="skilaUser" column="OWNER_USER_ID" class="com.skila.iworksite.masterdata.model.SkilaUser" not-null="true" />

<many-to-one name="skilaUser1" column="ASSIGNED_USER_ID" class="com.skila.iworksite.masterdata.model.SkilaUser" />
</class>

</hibernate-mapping>

This mapping has a dependency on the class "com.skila.iworksite.masterdata.model.SkilaUser".

The question is can I import the package name and avoid typing the package everytime.? If yes How to do it ?.

Thanks

Well, if you are to lazy to type :) then you may appreciate copuple of annotation based approaches:
Hibernate annotations
http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/annot ... e/en/html/
or Xdoclet
http://xdoclet.sourceforge.net/xdoclet/ ... tTask.html

In both cases you will not have to type mapping dociments at all :)

or use the plugins at tools.hibernate.org and get code completion ;)