hibernate.cfg.xml not found?

StevenLeija · **Posted:** Fri Nov 05, 2004 7:03 pm

Hello All,

I'm working on deploying a hibernate web application and when I invoke the HibernateUtil class from the CaveatEmptor sample, I'm getting a
"HibernateException: /hibernate.cfg.xml not found" exception.

Any ideas?

Thanks for any help!

Steven

christian · **Posted:** Sat Nov 06, 2004 2:48 pm

Is this file in the root of your classpath?

rpjanaka · **Posted:** Wed Nov 22, 2006 6:29 am

waht is the root of the class path mean....?? please explain it in directory structure

thanks..

christian · **Posted:** Wed Nov 22, 2006 7:16 am

Please download the sample chapter 2 of Java Persistence with Hibernate and work through this Hello World example. Also consider reading a Java Beginners book.

emmanuel · **Posted:** Thu Nov 23, 2006 1:36 pm

christian wrote:

Please download the sample chapter 2 of Java Persistence with Hibernate and work through this Hello World example. Also consider reading a Java Beginners book.

Actually do it the other way around :-)

sumittyagi · **Posted:** Thu Nov 30, 2006 4:36 am

hi! StevenLeija!

I faced the same problem few weeks ago.

But I got the solution.

put the hibernate.cfg.xml in web-inf/classes folder.
Then your application will find the file.

If this solves your problem then please don't forget to credit my reply.

Take care!
Bye!

Areznik · **Joined:** Wed Dec 06, 2006 3:45 pm **Posts:** 1

I had the same problem, and the above worked for me, thanks sumittyagi.

HernisQ · **Joined:** Tue Jul 14, 2009 3:34 pm **Posts:** 2

That worked for me too, in Eclipse Ganymede. Weird, huh?

jwenting · **Joined:** Tue Jan 03, 2006 9:20 am **Posts:** 74

HernisQ wrote:

That worked for me too, in Eclipse Ganymede. Weird, huh?

no, it's not weird at all.

Rode · **Joined:** Thu Feb 25, 2010 11:09 am **Posts:** 7

Thanks for the web-inf/classes tip. Just curious though, why do you have to create a folder for it to be found? Could anyone explain this please?

shrey_the_one · **Joined:** Tue Mar 02, 2010 2:31 am **Posts:** 1

Hi.
for NetBeans
Do one thing.
Just put your ".XML" file in to src folder rather than src/'Project name'/ ' '.xml.

shiva.forums · **Joined:** Thu Mar 18, 2010 11:40 am **Posts:** 1

Rode wrote:

Thanks for the web-inf/classes tip. Just curious though, why do you have to create a folder for it to be found? Could anyone explain this please?

WEB-INF/classes folder is in the classpath by default in web applications. So if you place any class file or resource (.xml or any other) file we can load it easily with Class.getResourceAsStream() or ClassLoader.getResource... like methods.

In such cases jvm will search all the class paths for the specified files, we no need to specify exact path of the file.
Hibernate also loads the files in such a way, so it works.