Question on classloaders and Hibernate hbm.xml files

[davidcnoel]

I have an application that is using hibernate. In my bean def file I am using the org.springframework.orm.hibernate.LocalSessionFact oryBean class and am specifying a hbm.xml file like

<property name="mappingResources">
<list>
<value>com/mycomp/table1.hbm.xml</value>
<value>com/mycomp/table2.hbm.xml</value>
</list>
</property>

The problem is when I create my context I get the following error

Could not open class path resource [com/mycomp/table1.hbm.xml]


This happens because the jar that holds my hbm.xml files is a different jar than the jar that holds the class that is trying to create the context. If I place the hbm.xml files in the same jar it all works. Unfortunatly this is not an option for me. The hiberante files must be in their own jar.

How do I go about configuring a class loader to find them? Do I have to write my own class loader?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

[irbouho]

please try:

    <property name="mappingLocations">
      <value>classpath*&#58;com/mycomp/table1.hbm.xml</value>
      <value>classpath*&#58;com/mycomp/table2.hbm.xml</value>
    </property>

HTH

[davidcnoel]

Thanks for the response Omar. Unfortunatly it did not work. I looked at a few of the different setters on the object and none of them seem to work. I thought perhaps the setMappingJarLocations would work but that is not helping either. Are there any examples anywhere that use these methods? Also. I'm a little confused about the classpath* syntax. I have not seen this before. Is this standard Java stuff? Any references so I can read up on it?

anyway to reiterate my problem....

jar1.jar contains
com/mycomp/table1.hbm.xml
com/mycomp/table2.hbm.xml

jar2.jar contains
com/mycomp/mypackage/myclass.class

myclass creates a FileSystemXMLApplicationContext with a bean def file from the filesystem. Both jar1.jar and jar2.jar are on the classpath. The context can't find the resources in jar1.jar

[davidcnoel]

bump. I'm still having this problem. Is there anyone out there that has run into this before?

[bh5k]

David, I am getting the same error, but my .hbm files aren't in a jar at all. My files are under WEB-INF/classes and it says it can't find them. I am wondering if this has to do with a version of Spring or Hibernate?

[davidcnoel]

I'm using Spring 1.1.3 with all it's packaged dependencies.

[davidcnoel]

Well I can write this up as user error This was not a Spring problem. Thanks for the replies though.

[car_lost]

David,

I hope you get notfied by this post.

What was the error that was causing this issue?

I am having similar problems.

I store the hbm.xml files in one directory path, and have the class files in the other directory.

I am pretty sure that I am making a silly mistake.

[tony_k]

coincidentally, i was just grappling with this last night.

i have a solution using the mappingJarLocations property which may work for you:

see: http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?t=18701