How to include properties from external file to hibernate.cfg.xml?

Question

I need to be able to store database config properties in src|main|java|dbConnection.properties and include it to hibernate.cfg.xml in form of

Answer 1

You state that you use Spring then why not let Spring do all the hard work. Let a property placeholder replace the placeholders you want.

Free advice instead of using the internal hibernate connection stuff (which isn't adviced to be used in production) configure a datasource in spring and wire that to your LocalSessionFactoryBean