hibernate.cfg.xml

I have the hibernate.cfg.xml file in the project root folder . If I run an application containing: SessionFactory sessionFactory = new Configuration().configure().buildSessionFactory(); it crashes in the configure() method with the following message: Could not locate cfg.xml resource [hibernate.cfg.xml] Output : Jun 17, 2016 12:04:59 PM org.hibernate.Version logVersion INFO: HHH000412: Hibernate Core {5.2.0.Final} Jun 17, 2016 12:04:59 PM org.hibernate.cfg.Environment <clinit> INFO: HHH000205: Loaded properties from resource hibernate.properties: {hibernate.connection.driver_class=org.h2

I'm just trying to learn Hibernate (version 4 final) but I have a problem when trying to create the session factory. Here is some code related to the problem: hibernate.cfg.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN" "http://www.hibernate.org/dtd/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd"> <hibernate-configuration> <session-factory> <property name="connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost/fitterblog</property> <property name="connection.username">root</property> <property name="connection.password"></property>

My project is like this: /src/main/java -thegamers -app.java -hibernateutil.java can someone tell me where to put the hibernate.cfg.xml? because I'm getting this error: Initial SessionFactory creation failed.org.hibernate.HibernateException: hibernate.cfg.xml not found Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError at thegamers.HibernateUtil.buildSessionFactory(HibernateUtil.java:17) at thegamers.HibernateUtil.<clinit>(HibernateUtil.java:8) at thegamers.App.main(App.java:15) Caused by: org.hibernate.HibernateException: hibernate.cfg.xml not found at org.hibernate.util

Here is the config file for MySQL: <hibernate-configuration> <session-factory> <property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver</property> <property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost/test</property> <property name="hibernate.connection.username">root</property> <property name="hibernate.connection.password">zgy01</property> <property name="hibernate.connection.pool_size">100</property> <property name="show_sql">false</property> <property name="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</property> <!-- Mapping files --> <mapping resource="model