Hibernate Not Finding Config Files

I added the Hibernate capability to an existing EJB project and created a simple class mapped to one table.

In the currentSession() method of the Session class generated by MyEclipseIDE it passes the path to the hibernate.cfg.xml like this:

   cfg.configure(CONFIG_FILE_LOCATION);
   sessionFactory = cfg.buildSessionFactory();

Hibernate then complains that it cannot find the hibernate.cfg.xml file. I guessed that this is a class-loader problem because Hibernate’s jars are in the JBoss server’s lib directory (server/default/lib) and it cannot see the hibernate.cfg.xml file is in the EJB’s jar file.

I confirmed that this is the case my modifying the code in currentSession() to call Class.getResource() from a class loaded by the EJB’s class loader and passing the URL to Configuration.configure(URL) rather than Configuration.configure(String). This worked.

The problem is that when the code from the Hibernate jar reads hibernate.cfg.xml it has a reference to mapping files (e.g. com/blueshoe/fish/hibernate/PClass.hbm.xml) which cannot be found my Hibernate’s class-loader for the same reason that it could not find hibernate.cfg.xml.

What must I do to allow the Hibernate code to find the configuration files in my EJB’s jar?

============Config Info==============
– Was Eclipse freshly installed for MyEclipse?

Yes

– Are any other external plugins installed?

No

– How many plugins in the <eclipse>/plugins directory are like org.eclipse.pde.*

8

– What MyEclipse version are you using? (Help > About Eclipse Platform > Features)

3.8.2

– What JDK version are you using to run Eclipse? (java -version)

1.4.2_06

– What JDK version are you using to launch your application server?

1.4.2_06

– What steps did you take that resulted in the issue?

See above

– What application server are you using?

jboss 4.0.0

– Are there any exceptions in the Eclipse log file?(<workspace>/.metadata/.log)

None.