configuration and mapping file locations ---------------------------------------- Key: HHH-1320 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-1320 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: New Feature Affects Versions: 3.1 Environment: 3.0.5 Reporter: joneric Wennerstrom Priority: Minor I am building a web app which will use hibernate for it's persistence layer. I would like to place the hibernate.cfg.xml file in the WEB-INF directory, and then place all of my xxxx.hbm.xml mapping files in the /WEB-INF/hibernate/ directory. I have not been able to do this (at least nothing I tried worked, but perhaps I'm just not doing it right). So for congiguring hibernate, I would so something like the following: configuration.configure("WEB-INF/hibernate.cfg.xml"); So for example, my hibernate.cfg.xml file would have the following mappings: <mapping resource="WEB-INF/hibernate/user.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="WEB-INF/hibernate/settings.hbm.xml"/> ...