New in Hibernate

[Sumit Bisht]

I am new in Hibernate development and am getting trouble in getting all required files in my maven repository.
Can anyone suggest me/give links to get a hibernate project up and running?
Do i need further tools/classpath settings/jarfiles ?

[Jaikiran Pai]

Sumit,

I will move this to our ORM forum.

[Cristian Vrabie]

Sumit, are you using hibernate directly with your project or are you using a IoC container like Spring?

If is just Hibernate you will probably need

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
  <artifactId>hibernate</artifactId>
  <version>3.2.5.ga</version>
</dependency>

If you use it with Spring you will need

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-hibernate3</artifactId>
  <version>2.0.8</version>
</dependency>

On top of these you will also need a connection pool:
I use:

<dependency>
  <groupId>commons-dbcp</groupId>
  <artifactId>commons-dbcp</artifactId>
  <version>1.2.2</version>
</dependency>

Then you will need to create a data source that uses the connection pool then inject it to hibernate. Spring helps a lot. You can do this in a few lines of xml. I suggest you have a look if you don't use it already.

[Cristian Vrabie]

http://static.springframework.org/spring/docs/2.5.x/reference/index.html
http://static.springframework.org/spring/docs/2.5.x/reference/orm.html