Just a note so that others won't get as frustrated.

When MyEclipse generates the Hibernate hbm.xml files it will make them with a 2.0 DOCTYPE element. If you leave them that way they will work okay BUT ...

if your internet connectivity goes down you get a cryptic failure to connect message ... so you really need to replace them with the following code:

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


THEN everything works great :-)

May all your JUnit tests run clean

Tom T

Tom,
Thank you for the tip, we appreciate you posting that for everyone.

Hi, I just moved to hibernate3 with a project and I can second that it works (I even didnt have to replace
the xml dtd headers, but it cannot hurt to do it)
It would be great to have that stuff directly built in in the next myeclipse releases, since it seems to be a cosmetic change only, anyway.

You don't have to change the headers but if you don't it actually makes a connection over the Internet to draw down the Hibernate 2 DTDs.