<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN""http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd"><hibernate-mapping>
[...]
</hibernate-mapping>

    public static InputStream getResourceAsStream(String resource) {String stripped = resource.startsWith("/") ?resource.substring(1) : resource;InputStream stream = null;ClassLoader classLoader = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();if (classLoader!=null) {stream = classLoader.getResourceAsStream( stripped );}if ( stream == null ) {stream = Environment.class.getResourceAsStream( resource );}if ( stream == null ) {stream = Environment.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream( stripped );}if ( stream == null ) {throw new HibernateException( resource + " not found" );}return stream;}

package myhibernate;import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.InputStream;import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
import org.hibernate.HibernateException;
import org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration;
import org.hibernate.util.ConfigHelper;public class MyConfiguration extends Configuration {/*** */private static final long serialVersionUID = 4590539009267996973L;private static Log log = LogFactory.getLog(MyConfiguration.class);protected InputStream getConfigurationInputStream(String resource)throws HibernateException {log.info("Configuration resource: " + resource);try {return new FileInputStream(resource);} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {e.printStackTrace();}return ConfigHelper.getResourceAsStream(resource);}
}

    public Configuration addResource(String resourceName)throws MappingException {try {return addInputStream(new FileInputStream(resourceName));} catch (MappingException me) {throw new InvalidMappingException("resource", resourceName, me);} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {e.printStackTrace();}return super.addResource(resourceName);}