jboss 4.2 Hibernate 3.2 entity mapping problem

[cgrahamatip]

I am trying to get a test jsf application to work on the standard jboss 4.2.0 AS server. I am using eclipse as the IDE. I set the build path in my eclipse project to point to jboss/default/lib jar files for hibernate and other required jars.

when I deployed the application everythings works as it should until I make a call from a backing bean to query or load a hibernate class. I get the following error: "org.hibernate.MappingException: Unknown entity: com.ipi.jsfapp.model.People".

Any information would be greatly appreciated..

The configuration snippets are:

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

<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory name="mdp-sf">
 <property name="show_sql">
 true
 </property>
 <!-- Mapping files -->
 <mapping resource="com/ipi/jsfapp/model/People.hbm.xml"/>
</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

############### hibernate.properties #################
..
## MySQL

hibernate.dialect org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect
#hibernate.dialect org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect
#hibernate.dialect org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLMyISAMDialect
hibernate.connection.driver_class com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
hibernate.connection.url jdbc:mysql://localhost/myDB
hibernate.connection.username username
hibernate.connection.password xxxxxxx
..

########### People.hbm.xml #######################
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">
<!-- Generated May 27, 2007 7:19:14 PM by Hibernate Tools 3.2.0.beta7 -->
<hibernate-mapping package="com.ipi.jsfapp.model">
<class name="People" table="people" catalog="myDB">
 <comment></comment>
 <id name="peopleid" type="int">
 <column name="peopleid" />
 <generator class="native" />
 </id>
 <property name="firstName" type="string">
 <column name="first_name" length="45">
 <comment></comment>
 </column>
 </property>
 <property name="middleInitial" type="string">
 <column name="middle_initial" length="1">
 <comment></comment>
 </column>
 </property>
 <property name="lastName" type="string">
 <column name="last_name" length="65">
 <comment></comment>
 </column>
 </property>
 </class>
</hibernate-mapping>

############# People.java ######################

package com.ipi.jsfapp.model;
// Generated May 27, 2007 7:19:11 PM by Hibernate Tools 3.2.0.beta7



/**
 * People generated by hbm2java
 */
public class People implements java.io.Serializable {

 // Fields

 private int peopleid;
 private String firstName;
 private String middleInitial;
 private String lastName;

 // Constructors

 /** default constructor */
 public People() {
 }

 /** minimal constructor */
 public People(int peopleid) {
 this.peopleid = peopleid;
 }
 /** full constructor */
 public People(int peopleid, String firstName, String middleInitial, String lastName) {
 this.peopleid = peopleid;
 this.firstName = firstName;
 this.middleInitial = middleInitial;
 this.lastName = lastName;
 }

 // Property accessors
 public int getPeopleid() {
 return this.peopleid;
 }

 public void setPeopleid(int peopleid) {
 this.peopleid = peopleid;
 }
 public String getFirstName() {
 return this.firstName;
 }

 public void setFirstName(String firstName) {
 this.firstName = firstName;
 }
 public String getMiddleInitial() {
 return this.middleInitial;
 }

 public void setMiddleInitial(String middleInitial) {
 this.middleInitial = middleInitial;
 }
 public String getLastName() {
 return this.lastName;
 }

 public void setLastName(String lastName) {
 this.lastName = lastName;
 }

}


############### backing bean call ####################

 public static suggestionBean getSuggestionBean() {

 int peopleid = 1;
 Configuration cfg = new Configuration();
 SessionFactory sf = cfg.buildSessionFactory();
 String address = randomString(suggestedAddresses);
 String password = randomString(chars, 8);
 /*
 * Insert some hibernate to get the user name from db.
 */
 People p = new People();
 Session session = sf.openSession();

 p = (People) session.load(People.class, peopleid);

 password = p.getFirstName();
 address = p.getLastName();
 session.close();
 return(new suggestionBean(address, password));
 }

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The hibernate configuration files are at the root of the jsf app.