Spring app cant find hmb.xml mapping file

Question

Hi, i am working on a spring mvc app using hibernate and i am having some trouble compiling and running my code.
This is because it cannot find my FileObject.hmb.xml whenever i try to create a session factory bean.
my bean looks like this
<bean id="sessionFactory"
          class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
          <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource1"></property>
          <property name="mappingResources">
               <list>
                    <value>FileObject.hmb.xml</value>
               </list>
          </property>
          <property name="hibernateProperties">
               <props>
                    <prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</prop>
                    <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
                    <prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">create</prop>
               </props>
          </property>
     </bean>     And the FileObject.hmb.xml resides in the root of my WAR folder. i have tried to move this file to different folders including the actual src folder and providing the correct path in the session factory but it still gives me a FileNotFoundException.
is this because java doesnt recognise a hello.hmb.xml type of file? Most if not all file formats are like this: name.extension
hibernate mapping files seems to be different though

Answer 1

Look at the API for the setMappingResources method:
[http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.5.x/api/org/springframework/orm/hibernate3/LocalSessionFactoryBean.html]
It's going to search the class path, this usually means unpacked classes and resources in the /WEB-INF/classes directory of your web application archive, plus classes and resources in JAR files under the /WEB-INF/lib directory. Example formats for the resources: "example.hbm.xml", "mypackage/example.hbm.xml", "mypackage/myotherpackage/example.hbm.xml".
You can add locations of Hibernate mapping files with the setMappingLocations method.