Hibernate

NB - This information is pretty OLD now.

Hibernate Tutorial

The First Tutorial I tried was this one from JBoss, it was pretty poor and didnt really even explain the basics http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/core/3.3/reference/en/html/tutorial.html

I found this one instead which seems better. http://pookey.co.uk/wordpress/archives/62-hibernate-with-mysql-a-beginners-guide-part-3

This one is also good for a few examples of more complex associations involving more than one table and the ways to initialise and save multiple objects. http://www.metaarchit.com/hibernate_tutorials/Hibernate%20Tutorial%2004.pdf

And for further reading: http://javamug.org/mainpages/presentations/Hibernate-1x2.pdf http://facestutorials.icefaces.org/tutorial/hibernate-tutorial.html#classassociations

I started off in Netbeans with a Maven project which gave me a quick structure but I had a few issues with the tutorial after that.

• The pom.xml example in the tutorial had no versions for any dependencies which netbeans/builder didn't like at all. Happily I discovered you can add them from the Netbeans menu as dependencies or even edit the pom.xml and add in the tag and it'll give you a list of the available versions in the auto-complete.
• The second issue I had was the way I added the dependencies - the default way of doing it put the dependencies under the element which meant it built fine but while developing none of the classes knew about the dependencies. Solution was to move the tag and contents to outside the build tag. This also made the Netbeans project update the list of libraries available.

Conclusions

Have a basic tutorial up and running but wasnt too impressed with the standard of tutorial thats out there. Need to go back and do a many-to-many and one to many association tutorial too.