Hibernate annotation configuration for multiple annotated classes

[Anand Jain]

I am using hibernate annotations and for that in the hibernate.cfg.xml i need to add annotated classes like this

<mapping class="p.Customer" />

here p is the package name and Customer is the annotated bean.

Suppose i have 20 such kind of annotated classes, it means I have to write 20 mapping lines for that class.In Spring there is a property packageToScan that can be used to register/load all hibernate annotated classes in the specified package.

Since I am not using Spring, do we have the same functionality in Hibernate?

Also I found one tag in hibernate.cfg.xml

<mapping package="" />

at first I thought this will do the job for me, but it didn't work. I didn't get what is the use of this property. Can somebody please let me know about it?

[Bill Gorder]

Nope to my knowledge this functionality does not exist without Spring.