Java - hibernate.cfg.xml File Not Found

Question

I have my hibernate.cfg.xml located at src/main/resources/ but I keep getting this error when I run my maven project, I have also tried putting the path to the file in the configuration like this but still got the error

Configuration conf = new Configuration();  
conf.configure("/src/main/resources/hibernate.cfg.xml"); 

What am I doing wrong?

And when I go to the properties of the project and go to Source I see /src/main/resources in the build path?

It also runs when I make it in eclipse, but when I export to jar it stops working but I have it in class path as you can see

Thanks

Edit

Here is my directory in my eclipse project

And then here is it when I open the .jar file

Are you saying the .xml should be in the root directory?

Answer 1

There is no /src/main/resources in your built project, that is just where maven keeps the files before building. While building the project (I assume you are building a .jar-artifact) maven will do the following:

1. All .java-files in src/main/java will be compiled to .class-files and will be moved to the subdirectory of the jar corresponding to their package
2. All files from src/main/resources will be copied to the root of the jar-file

So this file-structure in your project:

src
|
+-main
   |
   +-java
   |   |
   |   +- mypackage
   |          |
   |          +- MyClass.java
   |
   +-resources
         |
         +- hibernate.cfg.xml

will end up in your .jar-file like this:

project.jar
|
+- mypackage
|     |
|     +- MyClass.class
|
+- hibernate.cfg.xml

The essential point is: All files from /src/main/resources will end up in the classpath of your built project. But since your configuration-file is named hibernate.cfg.xml and is located on the classpath you should be OK just doing

Configuration conf = new Configuration(); 
conf.configure();

Note that configure() is called wthout an argument, so that means "Look for a file called hibernate.cfg.xml on your current classpath". So try removing the argument from your configure-call.