org.hibernate.HibernateException: /hibernate.cfg.xml not found

Question

I'm trying to use hibernate with spring 3 mvc but at the moment I get this exception thrown. I think I need to define my hibernate.cfg.xml somewhere, but not sure where?

I basically followed this example here http://www.nabeelalimemon.com/blog/2010/05/spring-3-integrated-with-hibernate-part-a/ And in particularly saw this line of code there that suppose to "magically" find my hibernate.cfg file using this:

return new Configuration().configure().buildSessionFactory();

I'm guessing that is not correct? i currently have my hibernate.cfg file inside src/com/jr/hibernate/

below is my cfg file:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">

<hibernate-configuration>
  <session-factory>
    <!-- Database connection settings -->
    <property name="connection.driver_class">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</property>
    <property name="connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/racingleague</property>
    <property name="connection.username">username</property>
    <property name="connection.password">password</property>
    <property name="hibernate.format_sql">true</property>
    <!-- JDBC connection pool (use the built-in) -->
    <property name="connection.pool_size">1</property>
    <!-- SQL dialect -->
    <property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</property>
    <!-- Enable Hibernate's automatic session context management -->
    <property name="current_session_context_class">thread</property>
    <!-- Disable the second-level cache  -->
    <property name="cache.provider_class">org.hibernate.cache.NoCacheProvider</property>
    <!-- Echo all executed SQL to stdout -->
    <property name="hibernate.show_sql">true</property>
    <!-- Drop and re-create the database schema on startup -->
    <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">update</property>
    <!--property name="hbm2ddl.auto">update</property-->
    <mapping resource="com/jr/model/hibernateMappings/user.hbm.xml"/>
  </session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

my hibernate utils class:

package com.jr.utils;

import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
import org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration;

public class HibernateUtils {

     private static final SessionFactory sessionFactory = buildSessionFactory();

      public static SessionFactory buildSessionFactory() {
        try {
          // Create the SessionFactory from hibernate.cfg.xml
          return new Configuration().configure().buildSessionFactory();
        }
        catch (Throwable ex) {
          // Make sure you log the exception, as it might be swallowed
          System.err.println("Initial SessionFactory creation failed." + ex);
          throw new ExceptionInInitializerError(ex);
        }
      }

}

which gets called bu this abstract class:

package com.jr.db;

import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
import org.hibernate.classic.Session;

import com.jr.utils.HibernateUtils;

public abstract class DbWrapper<T> {

    private static SessionFactory sessionFactory = null;
    private static Session session;

    public DbWrapper() {
        setSessionFactory();
    }

    private void setSessionFactory() {
        sessionFactory = HibernateUtils.buildSessionFactory();
        session = sessionFactory.getCurrentSession();
    }

    public boolean addNewItem(T dbItem) {

        try {
            session.getTransaction().begin();
            session.save(dbItem);
            session.getTransaction().commit();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.err.println("error exception when adding new item to table"
                    + e);
        } finally {

            session.close();
            sessionFactory.close();
        }

        return false;

    }

    public abstract boolean removeItem(String uid);

    public abstract boolean modifyItem(String uid, T item);

}

And here is the controller that originally does some hibernate stuff:

private Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(UserController.class);

    private UserDb userDb;

@RequestMapping(value = "/user/registerSuccess", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public String submitRegisterForm(@Valid User user, BindingResult result) {

    // validate the data recieved from user
    logger.info("validate the data recieved from user");
    if (result.hasErrors()) {
        logger.info("form has "+result.getErrorCount()+" errors");

        return "account/createForm";
    } else{
        // if everthings ok, add user details to database
        logger.info("if everthings ok, add user details to database");

        userDb = new UserDb();

        userDb.addNewItem(user);

        // display success and auto log the user to the system.
        return "account/main";
    }

}

Cheers in advance. I also have all my table hibvernate xml mappings in the same location as my hibernate.cfg.xml file

Answer 1

In IntelliJ go to "Open Project Settings" >> Modules >> Hibernate and target your hibernate.cfg.xml file used in your project.