I have three Maven projects in Netbeans: Domain; Server; Web. The HibernateUtility.java is defined in the Domain project at src/main/java/com/company/product/domain/HibernateUtility.java The hibernate.hbm.xml is defined in the Domain project at src/main/resources/hibernate.hbm.xml I'm trying to use HibernateUtility from the Web project, but it d…

hibernate.hbm.xml

<?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>
    <property name="connection.driver_class">org.postgresql.Driver</property>
    <property name="connection.username">product</property>
    <property name="connection.password">product</property>
    <property name="connection.url">jdbc:postgresql://localhost/product</property>
    <property name="transaction.factory_class">org.hibernate.transaction.JDBCTransactionFactory</property>
    <property name="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect</property>
    <property name="show_sql">true</property>
    <!-- Disable the second level cache -->
    <property name="cache.provider_class">org.hibernate.cache.NoCacheProvider</property>
    <property name="current_session_context_class">thread</property>
    <!-- Comment the below line to stop auto-creating the database -->
    <property name="hbm2ddl.auto">update</property>
    <mapping resource="mappings/User.hbm.xml"/>
  </session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

HibernateUtility.java

package com.company.product.domain;

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

public class HibernateUtility {
    private static final SessionFactory sessionFactory;
    
    static {
        try {
            sessionFactory = new Configuration()
                    .configure("hibernate.cfg.xml")
                    .buildSessionFactory();
        } catch (Throwable exception) {
            System.err.println("Initial SessionFactory creation failed" + exception);
            
            throw new ExceptionInInitializerError(exception);
        }
    }
    
    public static SessionFactory getSessionFactory() {
        return sessionFactory;
    }
}