hey everyone.

i need to get the connection from a datasource defined in a bean in applicationContext.xml, but i am having problem accessing the file. I tried:
1) Configuration conf = new Configuration();
SessionFactory session = conf.configure().buildSessionFactory();
but it says it doesnt find hibernate.cfg.xml

2) ApplicationContext ctx = new FileSystemXmlApplicationContext("applicationContext.xml");
ComboPooledDataSource ds = (ComboPooledDataSource) ctx.getBean("ds");
but it doesnt find too :(( i changed to WEB-INF/applicationContext and does the same error. Can anybody help me? Need a bean of applicationContext.xml!!!

i have this structure of code inside my proj:
-src
---conf
---java
-----controllers
--------MainContr
-web
---META-INF
---WEB-INF
-----applicationContext.xml
-----dispatcher-servlet.xml
-----hibernate.cfg.xml
-----web.xml

thnx for trying to help me

You need to put hibernate.cfg.xml in the root of the class path. This is the most annoying undocumented gotcha (or at least hard to find in the startup exercises) in Hibernate.