Hi friends,

I have a Example1.hbm.xml which is working fine.
Example1.hbm.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">

<hibernate-mapping package="examples.domain">
<class name="ExamplesListDomain" table="Examples" >
<id name="exampleId" column="EXAMPLE_ID" />
<property name="exampleName" column="EXAMPLE_NAME" />
</class>
</hibernate-mapping>

I have the following entry in hibernate.cfg.xml

<mapping resource="../orm/Example1.hbm.xml"/>

Now I added newly the following
<mapping resource="../orm/Example2.hbm.xml"/>

and copied the above Example1.hbm.xml as Example2.hbm.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">

<hibernate-mapping package="examples.domain">
<class name="ExamplesListDomain" table="Examples" >
<id name="exampleId" column="EXAMPLE_ID" />
<property name="exampleName" column="EXAMPLE_NAME" />
</class>
</hibernate-mapping>


I am getting the following error :
Initial SessionFactory creation failed.org.hibernate.MappingException: Error reading resource: ../orm/Example2.hbm.xml

So I removed the class tag from the following Example2.hbm.xml as
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-mapping package="examples.domain">

</hibernate-mapping>

I got the below error while trying to save :
org.hibernate.MappingException: entity class not found:

Please advice.
If there is some classpath error, then why am I not getting the initial error now (after removing the class tag)

Thanks in advance.

it doesn't seem to be classpath errors, rather that it simply cannot access the new file you created, but the probable reason why you're no longer getting the first error is because it checks for an Entity class first, errors and exits, so doesn't get around to checking if your specified resource exists.

Thanks for you reply.

If it is not classpath error, why cannot it access my new file. (It is exactly similar to my old file which is working perfectly fine). I am using Eclipse for my application.

Actually I need to work on a new DB table with new .hbm file where I was getting this kind of error.
So I copied the existing .hbm with an existing DB table to check whether I am getting the same error or not.
If I resolve this issue, I can start with my new DBtable.

Any ideas to resolve this issue...

Hi there,

Have you found out anything more about this? I am having same problem where a session cannot be created because class cannot be found. I've checked and re-checked and everything looks OK. I've read numerous related posts and have not found any ideas on how to solve this or if this is a bug somewhere.

Any info either way would be great. Thanks!