How to read hibernate db configuration from external file

marcobazza · **Posted:** Wed May 09, 2007 3:50 am

Hi at all.
I'm a new user of hibernate and I'm trying to deploy my first application.
Everything work in Eclipse, but when I try to simulate an installation on a customer pc the first question that I have in mind is:
Is there a way to read configuration file hibernate.cfg.xml from file system instead of read it from the classpath?

This question is very important because I need to deploy the application in differente environment so the connection.url, connection.username, connection.password need to be editable.....

I didn't find topic about this problem....

Help me
Bye bye

chucky · **Joined:** Mon Jun 12, 2006 5:33 am **Posts:** 63

Hi marcobazza,
configure via a File object located in the File System.
e.g.:

Code:

File file = new File("/my/absolute/path/hibernate.cfg.xml") ;
SessionFactory sessionFactory = new Configuration().configure(file).buildSessionFactory();

hope this helps

marcobazza · **Posted:** Wed May 09, 2007 9:30 am

It works fine, now I've to map this method in a bean session factory for Spring, but this is easy.

Thanks you