Need Help - Question regarding PetClinic Example

[spring04]

I just created my first spring app (it's NOT web based application). I'm using JBoss/Hibernate/Spring/Eclipse combination.

I wrote some POJOs and generated mapping files using XDoclet successfully. Then i created a business interface and spring enabled it. I also created the applicationcontext.xml file.

So far, i was following the PetClinic example. This example has only one .hbm.xml file petclinic.hbm.xml file. In my application, i've generated one .hbm.xml file per POJO. My question is, how will i list all the .hbm.xml files under the property 'mappingResources' in the 'sessionFactoryBean'?

Do i need to use 'list' and list all the .hbm.xml files?

I'm sorry if i had asked some trivial question but i just started working on Spring 2 days ago and new to hibernate too.

Thanks for your help in advance.

[twicet]

Anyway this is how you'd typically do it, use a 'list'

<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
		<property name="dataSource"><ref local="dataSource"/></property>
		<property name="mappingResources">
			<list>
				<value>/bw/ebs/application/library/system/domain/Copy.hbm.xml</value>
				<value>/bw/ebs/application/library/system/domain/Fine.hbm.xml</value>
				<value>/bw/ebs/application/library/system/domain/Book.hbm.xml</value>
				<value>/bw/ebs/application/library/system/domain/Patron.hbm.xml</value>
				<value>/bw/ebs/application/library/system/domain/Reservation.hbm.xml</value>
				<value>/bw/ebs/application/library/system/domain/Section.hbm.xml</value>
			</list>
		</property>
		<property name="hibernateProperties">
			<props>
				<prop key="hibernate.dialect">$&#123;hibernate.dialect&#125;</prop>
				<prop key="hibernate.query.substitutions">true 1, false 0</prop>
			</props>
		</property>
	</bean>

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[ojolly]

Do i need to use 'list' and list all the .hbm.xml files?.

That's it. The property actually expect a String[]. When you pass a single value it creates a 1 item array, but when using a list, it will create a multi item array and the session factory bean will load them all.

HTH

Olivier

[katentim]

Actually, if you use XDoclet to create the hibernate.cfg.xml file, you can just reference it as shown here.

[spring04]

Thanks Everyone.

It's really great that i can just refer the config location and point to the xdoclet generated .hbm.xml.

Let me try it out!

[spring04]

Using Xdoclet, i'm creating *.hbm.xml files for each POJOs and we don't create .hbm.cfg.xml. We use hibernate.properties as we only need to configure dialect using this. Our environment is JBoss/Spring/Hibernate. In this case, i think i need to use just list to list all the *.hbm.xml files in the applicationcontext.xml file. My concern is that i had to hardcode the path for each and every file. Is there a way i can give the directory information in one place and just use the file names of .hbm.xml file?

Thanks!

[katentim]

There is a thread on the dev list discussing this.