Starting With Hibernate

Tools : Eclipse, SQL Server

1). Create a Dynamic Web project in Eclipse.
2). Copy the following jar files into project’s lib folder and project’s class path.

antlr-2.7.6.jar
asm.jar
asm-attrs.jar
cglib-2.1.3.jar
commons-collections-2.1.1.jar
commons-logging-1.1.jar
dom4j-1.6.1.jar
hibernate3.jar
javassist.jar
jta-1.1.jar

sqljdbc.jar (FOR MS SQL Server)

3). Create the Hibernate configuration file hibernate.cfg.xml as follows -

4). For example in above configuration we defined a hibernate mapping file status.hbm.xml which can look like -

5). Store all the configuration files in src/default package.

6). Create a HibernateUtil class for serving sessions utilizing sessionFactory as follows -

7). Create a DAO class

8). Create a java class for status.hbm.xml mapping as follows -

9) Now you are ready to use Hibernate using the above utility class HibernateUtil and the Hibernate configuration mappings.
Following is a sample program -

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