hibernate.cfg.xml not found

Question

I am new to Hibernate, reading this book \"Java persistence with Hibernate\" and I am trying to implement the example from there. So far my Ant build is successful, but when

Answer 1

You can load hibernate.cfg.xml from a different directory (not necessarily the classpath) using the configure(File configFile) method that takes the hibernateConfig File argument. (note, I am using hibernate 4.3.7)

Like this:

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String hibernatePropsFilePath = "/etc/configs/hibernate.cfg.xml";

File hibernatePropsFile = new File(hibernatePropsFilePath);

Configuration configuration = new Configuration(); 
configuration.configure(hibernatePropsFile);

StandardServiceRegistryBuilder serviceRegistryBuilder = new StandardServiceRegistryBuilder().applySettings(configuration.getProperties());

ServiceRegistry serviceRegistry = serviceRegistryBuilder.build();

SessionFactory sessionFactory = configuration.buildSessionFactory(serviceRegistry);