Spring/Hibernate/JBoss SessionFactory config problem

[MmarcoM]

hi all,
i have developed a webapplication that consists of two modules, a backend.jar module that contains backend code (uses hib & spring) and a WebApp (webwork based) that uses the backend.jar for interacting with the database.
I wanted to configure my SessionFactory dynamically, without hardcoding the mapping files that i was going to use in appconfig.xml, so i wrote this in the appContext.xml

<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
	    <property name="dataSource">
			<ref bean="dataSource"/>
	    </property>
	    	      
	    <property name="mappingLocations">
			<value>classpath*:**/*.hbm.xml</value>
	    </property> 
.....

Now, when i run my jUnit tests for backend.jar module, everything is fine, i can insert/delete etc..
However when i run my app in JBoss/Tomcat, when the web module is trying to insert something in the database i got a big exception stating that it cannot find Entity <myobjectconfiguredinhbm.xmlfile>, so it's like it is not able to see the hbm.xml files
now, i am pretty sure the web module is configured properly regarding spring xml files...... i am going to do some integration tests between web and backend modules, but i was wondering if anyone has encountered this problem before..

When i replaced the above configuratin with this one

<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
	    <property name="dataSource">
			<ref bean="dataSource"/>
	    </property>
	    
	    <property name="mappingResources">
			<list>
				<value>bus/dto/AgencyImpl.hbm.xml</value>
				<value>bus/dto/JobApplicationImpl.hbm.xml</value>
			</list>
		</property>

everything works like a charm
i am including spring.jar version 2.0, i was wondering if anyone has encountered this problem before......
Since everything works in the lattter configuration, my guess is that the problem is in the former configuration...

any help?

thanks in advance and regards
marco

[MmarcoM]

Hello,
as i was supposing, my integration tests failed with following exception :

Caused by: org.hibernate.MappingException: Unknown entity: bus.dto.AgencyImpl
        at org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl.getEntityPersister(SessionFactoryImpl.java:610)
        at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.getEntityPersister(SessionImpl.java:1246)
        at org.hibernate.engine.ForeignKeys.isTransient(ForeignKeys.java:180)
        at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractSaveEventListener.getEntityState(AbstractSaveEventListener.java:459)
        at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.performSaveOrUpdate(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:84)
        at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.onSaveOrUpdate(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:70)
        at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.fireSaveOrUpdate(SessionImpl.java:501)        at org.hibernate.i

if i dont use mappingLocations but declare the hbm files used, everything works fine..
i take it as that this is happening because my hibernate classes are in a separate jars from the web classes......

anyone had succeeded with same settings?
thanks and regars
marco

[Andrei Stefan]

Try using mappingJarLocations property of session factory bean.

[MmarcoM]

Hello Andrei,
that would work but it will fail my tests...
i have followign situation

- backend.jar (containing hibernate xml files)
- webapp.jar that has backend.jar as dependency

if i use mappingJarLocation, i suspect my backend tests will fail because i run my tests before building jar (i m using maven2), and so at the moment of running junit spring won't be able to find the jar file
unless i use a separate sessionFactory for deployment and for testing, then for deployment i could use mappingJarLocation and for tests i can use mappingLocations.
i was wondering if there is a setting that accomodates both......

any ideas?

thanks and regards
marco

[karldmoore]

Can't you just use two different configurations for the sessionFactory; one for each environment?

[MmarcoM]

hello again karldmoore,
yes i can... i was trying to explore the possibility of having just one session that will accomodate both cases...
looks it's impossible unless i:
- mock dao tests
- do integration tests separately (once i got jars from web and backend)

however, having 2 different session factory does not harm, so i'll go that way

thanx again and regards
marco

[julesh]

Your problem might be a different symptom of the same one I was encountering here: hibernate expects to load its configuration from the same classloader as it was loaded, so if you've put it in a shared location, it can only load configuration files from shared locations.

[karldmoore]

yes i can... i was trying to explore the possibility of having just one session that will accomodate both cases

I know what you mean, it's nice to just have the one configuration. If everythings the same in both places, then there are no worries. If not.........