Lakshman,
Thanks for the response. My Category.hbm.xml was not in the src/main/resources directory, but I have moved it there to now avail. I am running mvn clean generate-sources to execute the build. Attempting a mvn clean resources:resources hibernate3:hbm2java yields the same error/stack trace as I included in the original posting. Any other suggestions? This seems like a simple problem, but it has cause great delay for me. Very annoying! Bryan
