Setting up Hibernate Development Environment

Setup your development

Required Softwares

To Build Hibernate Applications, you need the following:

1. Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
2. Database Server (MySQL server)
3. Hibernate JAR files and JDBC Driver

Create a new Java project

Create a new folder “lib” for Hibernate jar files

Download Hibernate ORM zip form hibernate.org

Now download JDBC drivers (Connector/J) zip from link below:

https://dev.mysql.com/

https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/5.1.html

Copy jars from the hibernates lib/required folder to lib folder of the java project

Next copy the connector jar into the lib folder

Now effectively add these jars file to the project class path by right clicking  >  properties  > Libraries > Add JARS.

After adding reference to the class path, you will see the “Reference libraries” folder holding all the jars files which we added recently.

Testing  JDBC connection

Create Simple JDBC program