Where to place hibernate.cfg.xml?

I'm using maven, and it didn't work for me until I put hibernate.cfg.xml in src/main/resources.

The config file hibernate.cfg.xml needs to be on the classpath.

This can be accomplished in different ways, depending on your project.

• For a web-app WAR project (you are running the program in a Servlet container): placing it in WEB-INF/classes will work as files in WEB-INF/classes are visible on the classpath when app is running in container.

• For a Maven-style project (not running the program in a Servlet container): placing it in /src/main/resources/ will work

• For otherwise, try in the src/ directory.