I am building a web app that uses hibernate.
I would like to place my hibernate.cfg.xml file in the WEB-INF/ directory, and all of my mapping files in a subdirectory, namely WEB-INF/hibernate/.

I have tried many things to achieve this and grep'ed the forums, googled it, and can not find an answer.

I want to do something like the following:
configuration.configure("WEB-INF/hibernate.cfg.xml");


then, in my hibernate.cfg.xml file,
<mapping resource="WEB-INF/hibernate/user.hbm.xml"/>
<mapping resource="WEB-INF/hibernate/settings.hbm.xml"/>


Has anyone done this, or am I forced to put the mapping files in WEB-INF/classes and use the class mapping:
<mapping class="com.beaglebuddy.Settings"/>

Thanks for any help

I believe you have to put the files in your root directory, which is, your classes directory.

C ya

There's really no way to do this in hibernate?

There's no way to tell hibernate to read mapping files from a directory in your war file? It seems that since most apps are web based these days, that hibernate would have some way of doing this.

Hibernate will read mapping files from the classpath so you can have a separate hibernate directory in WEB-INF/classes dir.

If you really want to use the WEB-INF/hibernate dir, you can read the mapping files yourself and add them to Configuration object. See the docs for org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration class.

yeah, I could extend the Configure class and add the functionality in.
I just thought Hibernate might already have that built in, and I was just not doing it right.

It's way more convenient for me to have them all together in a single directory than scattered about on the classpath. That's just my personal opinion, what works best for me.

Thanks for the help everyone.