Setting up the Hibernate

Setting up the Hibernate

                    

      1)   Download Hibernate jars

      2)   Download and install any database and database drivers

      3)   Setting up the eclipse environment for Hibernate project

         

  1)Download Hibernate jars

                Go to http://www.hibernate.org/downloads and click on ReleaseBundle.
                 

   
Download the latest version(hibernate-distribution-3.6.4.Final)
                   

unzip the downloaded folder and this folder will contains sub folders like documentation,lib,project,and hibernate jar. 
    

02)Download and install any database and database drivers

Download any database (like postgresql , oracle etc…)from the web  and install. And also download the corresponding jdbc drivers ( JDBC drivers are database specific).
 

 03)Setting up the eclipse environment for Hibernate project 

       01) Create a new Java project (Eg : HibernateFirst)   

           using Eclipse IDE.

       02) Add below jars to the buildpath of the project    

             2.1) hibernate3.jar  which is downloaded in step1

             2.2) All the jars  present in lib/required 

             2.3) Jars present in jpa folder

             2.4) Any one jar from byte code folder

       03) Add database driver to the buildpath