I am developing an application using Spring MVC (version 3.1), Hibernate (Version 3.5) and MySQL. In this application, I am creating a database schema each time when the app
Spring must know where to find your file.
If you are using maven, there are several way of doing so.
you can use classpath:/import.sql and put your file in src/test/resources or src/main/resources, depending if you need this for test only or not.