Hi,

I am developing a project in which i am using JPA entities along with some entities mapped in xml files.

While testing, i don't want Hibernate to load the entities mapped in the xml files. What it does it that it automatically searches for .hbm.xml files in the classpath and loads the entities mapped in the same. And this creating lot's of problems for me.

So is there a way by which i can disable automatic classpath scanning in Hibernate 3.6 when using JPA?

AFAIK, this does not happen automatically. The mapping files are typically mentioned explicitly in some location (in the hibernate.cfg.xml or in your Spring configuration).

How are you configuring your session factory?

No, it's not like that. It's picking up automatically. When using JPA, there is no need of hibernate.cfg.xml. The temporary solution is i've to use auto-import=false in all my hbm files so that it doesn't gives me duplicate entity error, since i've classes by the same name in many packages. But from the logs i see, it's still picking up all hbm files from the classpath and loading the configuration from them. So i just need this HbmBinder who still get's loaded when instatiating an EntityManagerFactory to be somehow disabled.

I am not using Spring right now.

Just add <exclude-unlisted-classes/> to your persistence.xml file.