Hibernate version:
3.0.5


I'm using annotations for the first time and I've followed the instructions on:
http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/annot ... figuration

I have an hibernate.cfg.xml:
<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory>
<property name="connection.datasource">java:comp/env/jdbc/tcrud</property>
<property name="useOuterJoin">true</property>
<property name="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</property>
<property name="show_sql">true</property>
<mapping package="com.cs.persistence"></mapping>
</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

but when building the session factory I get this warning:
WARN main org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationBinder - Package not found or wo package-info.java: com.cs.persistence

but the package with all the persistent classes are there, believe me ;)

the classes lies inside subpackages, does it matter??

Thanks

package does not mean that all classes inside this package will be discovered.
It means that the package annotations will be read. Package annotations are in a class named package-info.java

You have to add your classes manually using
<mapping class="org.hibernate.test.annotations.Plane"/>

I ran into the same problem, misunderstanding what <mapping package=""/> meant.

That said, is there a way to avoid specifying each hibernate-annotated class by hand in the hibernate.cfg.xml file?

use Hibernate Entity Manager and a par archive