Hi,
I´m Brazilian and a new user in the framework. However, i don´t obtain a session becouse ocours a exception:

Exception in thread "main" org.hibernate.MappingException: Could not read mappings from resource: br/com/hibernate/funcionario/Funcionario.hbm.xml
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.addResource(Configuration.java:485)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.parseMappingElement(Configuration.java:1465)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.parseSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1433)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.doConfigure(Configuration.java:1414)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.doConfigure(Configuration.java:1390)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.configure(Configuration.java:1310)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.configure(Configuration.java:1296)
at br.com.hibernate.start.CriaSessionHibernate.main(CriaSessionHibernate.java:25)
Caused by: org.hibernate.MappingException: invalid mapping
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.addInputStream(Configuration.java:425)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.addResource(Configuration.java:482)
... 7 more
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Document root element "hibernate-mapping", must match DOCTYPE root "hibernate-configuration".
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:236)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.error(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:172)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:382)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:316)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.rootElementSpecified(XMLDTDValidator.java:1652)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.handleStartElement(XMLDTDValidator.java:1931)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.startElement(XMLDTDValidator.java:795)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:324)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl$NSContentDispatcher.scanRootElementHook(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:773)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1794)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:368)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:834)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:764)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:148)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1242)
at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:465)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.addInputStream(Configuration.java:422)
... 8 more

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
THE XML'S
hibernate.cfg.xml
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory>
<property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost/hibernate</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.username">root</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.password">root</property>
<mapping resource="br/com/hibernate/funcionario/Funcionario.hbm.xml"/>
<mapping resource="br/com/hibernate/bonificacao/Bonificacao.hbm.xml"/>
</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>


Funcionario.hbm.xml
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-mapping>
<class table="funcionario" name="br.com.hibernate.funcionario.Funcionario">
<id column="id" name="id">
<generator class="identity"/>
</id>

<property name="admissao" notnull="true" type="date" column="admissao"/>
<property name="matricula" column="matricula"/>
<property name="nome" notnull="true" length="50" column="nome"/>
<property name="ramal" column="ramal"/>

<bag lazy="false" cascade="all" name="bonificacacoes">
<key column="id"/>
<onetomany class="br.com.hibernate.bonificacao.Bonificacao"/>
</bag>
</class>
</hibernate-mapping>


Thank's,

<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-mapping>
...

You're using the configuration DTD but writing a mapping file. Switch to using the mapping DTD:

Thank you so much for information!

[]s,

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