org.hibernate.MappingException: Unknown entity: annotations.Users

Question

Consider the hierarchy :

And the following classes and xml :

Answer 1

For those using Spring's Java configuration classes, you might write the following:

@Autowired
@Bean(name = "sessionFactory")
public SessionFactory getSessionFactory(DataSource dataSource) {
    LocalSessionFactoryBuilder sessionBuilder = new LocalSessionFactoryBuilder(dataSource);
    sessionBuilder.addProperties(getHibernateProperties());
    sessionBuilder.addAnnotatedClasses(Foo.class);
    sessionBuilder.addAnnotatedClasses(Bar.class);
    sessionBuilder.addAnnotatedClasses(Bat.class);
    return sessionBuilder.buildSessionFactory();
}