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Since i upgrade JBPM from 4.0 to 4.3 in our project i got following excpetion.

I only changed applicationContext to new Spring configuration style for JBPM.

I tried to find out why jbpm thinks that a jbpm.hibernate.cfg.xml
is needed even if in applicationcontext a hibernate session is defined w/o u
sing such a file, but i failed. Can somebody explain this?

Thanx in adavance....

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exception

Caused by: org.hibernate.HibernateException: jbpm.hibernate.cfg.xml not found
    at org.hibernate.util.ConfigHelper.getResourceAsStream(ConfigHelper.java:170)
    at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.getConfigurationInputStream(Configuration.java:1453)
    at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.configure(Configuration.java:1475)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.descriptor.HibernateConfigurationDescriptor$AddCfgResource.apply(HibernateConfigurationDescriptor.java:151)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.descriptor.HibernateConfigurationDescriptor.apply(HibernateConfigurationDescriptor.java:90)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.descriptor.HibernateConfigurationDescriptor.initialize(HibernateConfigurationDescriptor.java:76)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.performInitialization(WireContext.java:533)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.initialize(WireContext.java:495)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.create(WireContext.java:449)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.create(WireContext.java:437)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.get(WireContext.java:417)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.get(WireContext.java:327)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.get(WireContext.java:688)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.descriptor.HibernateSessionFactoryDescriptor.construct(HibernateSessionFactoryDescriptor.java:57)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.construct(WireContext.java:469)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.create(WireContext.java:448)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.create(WireContext.java:437)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.get(WireContext.java:417)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.get(WireContext.java:327)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.get(WireContext.java:688)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.env.BasicEnvironment.get(BasicEnvironment.java:139)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.env.BasicEnvironment.get(BasicEnvironment.java:130)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.descriptor.HibernateSessionDescriptor.construct(HibernateSessionDescriptor.java:63)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.construct(WireContext.java:469)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.create(WireContext.java:448)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.create(WireContext.java:437)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.get(WireContext.java:417)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.get(WireContext.java:327)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.WireContext.get(WireContext.java:688)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.env.BasicEnvironment.get(BasicEnvironment.java:139)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.env.BasicEnvironment.get(BasicEnvironment.java:130)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.env.EnvironmentImpl.getFromCurrent(EnvironmentImpl.java:201)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.env.EnvironmentImpl.getFromCurrent(EnvironmentImpl.java:190)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.cmd.CheckDbCmd.execute(CheckDbCmd.java:44)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.svc.DefaultCommandService.execute(DefaultCommandService.java:42)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.tx.StandardTransactionInterceptor.execute(StandardTransactionInterceptor.java:54)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.svc.EnvironmentInterceptor.executeInNewEnvironment(EnvironmentInterceptor.java:53)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.svc.EnvironmentInterceptor.execute(EnvironmentInterceptor.java:40)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.svc.RetryInterceptor.execute(RetryInterceptor.java:55)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.svc.SkipInterceptor.execute(SkipInterceptor.java:43)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.processengine.ProcessEngineImpl.checkDb(ProcessEngineImpl.java:152)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.processengine.SpringProcessEngine.create(SpringProcessEngine.java:70)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.cfg.ConfigurationImpl.buildProcessEngine(ConfigurationImpl.java:92)
    at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.processengine.SpringHelper.createProcessEngine(SpringHelper.java:47)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.SimpleInstantiationStrategy.instantiate(SimpleInstantiationStrategy.java:115)

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applicationcontext.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
    xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util" xmlns:jndi="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jndi"
    xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-2.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-2.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/jndi http://www.springframework.org/schema/jndi/spring-jndi-2.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-2.0.xsd">

    <bean id="sessionFactory"
        class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean">
        <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSourceCustom" />
        ...
        <property name="hibernateProperties">
            <props>
                <prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle10gDialect</prop>
               
                <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">false</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">validate</prop>

                <prop key="hibernate.cache.provider_class">net.sf.ehcache.hibernate.SingletonEhCacheProvider
                </prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.cache.provider_configuration">/ehcache.xml</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.cache.use_second_level_cache"> true</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.generate_statistics">true</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.cache.use_structured_entries">true</prop>

                ...

            </props>
        </property>

        <property name="mappingLocations">
            <list>
                <value>classpath:jbpm.execution.hbm.xml</value>
                <value>classpath:jbpm.repository.hbm.xml</value>
                <value>classpath:jbpm.task.hbm.xml</value>
                <value>classpath:jbpm.history.hbm.xml</value>
            </list>
        </property>
       
       
    </bean>

    <bean id="transactionManager"
        class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager">
        <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
    </bean>

    <tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" />

    <!--  Hibernate Template -->
    <bean id="hibernateTemplate" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTemplate">
        <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
    </bean>

    <!--
        ========================= Configuring JBPM4.3
        =============================
    -->

    <bean id="springHelper" class="org.jbpm.pvm.internal.processengine.SpringHelper" >
        <property name="jbpmCfg" value="jbpm.cfg.xml"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id="processEngine" factory-bean="springHelper"
        factory-method="createProcessEngine" />

</beans>

jbpm.cfg.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<jbpm-configuration spring="enabled">

    <process-engine-context>

        <repository-service />
        <repository-cache />
        <execution-service />
        <history-service />
        <management-service />
        <identity-service />
        <task-service />

        <command-service>
            <spring-transaction-interceptor />
            <retry-interceptor />
            <environment-interceptor />
        </command-service>
       
        <hibernate-session-factory />

        <script-manager default-expression-language="juel"
            default-script-language="juel">
            <script-language name="juel"
                factory="org.jbpm.pvm.internal.script.JuelScriptEngineFactory" />
        </script-manager>

        <id-generator />

        <types resource="jbpm.variable.types.xml" />

        <address-resolver />

        <mail-template name='task-notification'>
            <to users="${task.assignee}" />
            <subject>${task.name}</subject>
            <text><![CDATA[Hi ${task.assignee},
Task "${task.name}" has been assigned to you.
${task.description}

Sent by JBoss jBPM
]]></text>
        </mail-template>

        <mail-template name='task-reminder'>
            <to users="${task.assignee}" />
            <subject>${task.name}</subject>
            <text><![CDATA[Hey ${task.assignee},
Do not forget about task "${task.name}".
${task.description}

Sent by JBoss jBPM
]]></text>
        </mail-template>

    </process-engine-context>

    <transaction-context>
        <repository-session />
        <db-session />

        <hibernate-session current="true"/>

        <message-session />
        <timer-session />
        <history-session />
        <mail-session>
            <mail-server>
                <session-properties resource="jbpm.mail.properties" />
            </mail-server>
        </mail-session>
    </transaction-context>

    <import resource="jbpm.tx.hibernate.cfg.xml" />
    <import resource="jbpm.jpdl.cfg.xml" />
    <import resource="jbpm.identity.cfg.xml" />
    <import resource="jbpm.businesscalendar.cfg.xml" />
    <import resource="jbpm.jobexecutor.cfg.xml" />

</jbpm-configuration>