Addition of mapping-bundle or similar feature to configuration file ------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-1485 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-1485 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: New Feature Environment: Any Reporter: tenwit Assignee: Steve Ebersole Priority: Trivial Many of the projects I work on result in jars that use hibernate to provide data access facilities to multiple applications (e.g. separate bulk import applications, reporting applications, web and swing front-ends, all over the same DB). Many of these applications use several jars (because they deal with data from several databases). Each application has to maintain its own set of <mapping> elements in its .cfg.xml file. These are getting very cumbersome now: the apps that deal with all of the databases have upwards of 120 .hbm.xml files imported. I'd like to suggest a new file, maybe a .map.xml file, that bundles <mapping> elements but doesn't do any configuration stuff. Each of the jars could include one of these files, which would be imported much like individual mapping files (a new <mapping-bundle> element in the .cfg.xml file, maybe?). The file format wouldn't need anything more than a <mapping-bundle> top level element, and the <mapping> element already in the .cfg.xml files. This would reduce the maintenance effort required in apps that follow the same sort of model as mine do.