We will write a simple hibernate application to get started with hibernate.

Before starting, you should:

Hibernate 4 jars can be downloaded from the SourceForge web site at http://sourceforge.net/projects/hibernate/files/hibernate4 or from http://hibernate.org/orm/downloads/.  If this url doesn’t work or get changed, just search ‘hibernate 4 jars download sourceforge’ in Google.  The distribution version downloaded here is 4.3.11. Except for the version numbers, the jar names and folder structure should be same across any version of hibernate4 distribution.  

Maven is primarily a build automation tool used for building mostly Java projects and is maintained by the Apache Software Foundation. Maven, a Yiddish word meaning accumulator of knowledge, was originally started in Jakarta Turbine project.

Maven’s objectives (as per maven.apache.org) are:

1. Making the build process easy

2. Providing a uniform build system

3. Providing quality project information

Will list our common issues, tips and tricks for unit testing concurrency code written in Spring. You will usually be using a unit testing framework such as JUnit or TestNG.

Spring Framework provides support for transparently adding caching into an existing Spring application, with minimal impact on the code, similar to the transaction support. Spring also makes good use of annotations. This note is a summary of Spring’s documentation (see reference) on Caching, for quick reading and reference.