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.  

In this demo, we will create a listener and then add, remove and delete attributes from the request object so that the listener methods are invoked.

Follow the below steps in order. You should have already configure apache tomcat with eclipse as mentioned in configuring-apache-tomcat-with-eclipse.

Create a new Dynamic Web project in eclipse as:

• go to File >New > Dynamic Web Project

Steps verified for versions: 5.6.19. Steps last verified on: 7/JUN/2014.

We can easily install the free MySQL community server on Windows following the below simple steps:

Step 1: Download MySQL community server latest version. Current download page link is http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql.

Hibernate provide Criteria Queries as an object-oriented alternative to HQL. Criteria Query is used to modify the objects and provide restriction for the objects. Many complex queries in HQL or even SQL may become larger over a period of time and spread over many lines; and will be difficult to update and maintain. We have already seen HQL in http://www.javajee.com/introduction-to-hibernate-query-language-hql-0.