I'm having problems loading the hibernate mapping files in the following configuration:
JBoss 4.0.3
Spring 1.2.7
Hibernate 3.0.5
EAR containing MDB and multiple JAR files.

I've tried various configurations of my hibernate context file and the locations of the .hbm.xml mapping files.

I've put the mapping files in:
- EAR root
- EAR/META-INF
- MDB root
- MDB/META-INF
- next to their source files in a JAR (source files are recognized by Spring but not the hbms)

Is anyone else using this same architecture? I've read many posts and it seems that most people with a similar setup have devised their own vendor specific solutions or klug. I need to stay vendor non-specific as much as possible.