Java: Eclipe's notion of classpath 101

In Eclipse, if you don't specify the build path, your classes by default will be placed in the base classpath of your project module. E.g.
C:\workspaces\myproject\myModuleEJB\classes\xxx

Therefore, your base classpath is C:\workspaces\myproject\myModuleEJB\classes\xxx

Consider two spring config source folders :
C:\workspaces\myproject\myModuleEJB\testsrc\spring\testApplicationContext.xml
C:\workspaces\myproject\myModuleEJB\configsrc\spring\businessRules.xml

testApplicationContext.xml is referring to businessRules.xml e.g.

testApplicationContext.xml
===================

<bean id="businessRules" init="false" class="org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext">
  <constructor-arg>
     <list><value>spring/businessRules.xml</value></list>
  </constructor-arg>
</bean>

both testApplicationContext.xml and businessRules.xml are compiled by Eclipse into
C:\workspaces\myproject\myModuleEJB\classes\spring\testApplicationContext.xml
C:\workspaces\myproject\myModuleEJB\classes\spring\businessRules.xml

therefore, if testApplicationContext.xml wants to refer to businessRules.xml, the testApplicationContext.xml has to refer to the base classpath location of businessRules.xml
ie. /spring/businessRules.xml

java: Spring's Hibernate Template now obsolete as of Hibernate 3.0.1

See
http://blog.springsource.com/main/2007/06/26/so-should-you-still-use-springs-hibernatetemplate-andor-jpatemplate/

Also, see
- Spring in Action (2nd ed) page 193

- Beginning Spring 2 page 70