Basic questions, but can't seem to find the answer in any of the faqs, or docs. Out of the downloaded hibernate distribution, what is the minimum set of jars required to use hibernate at run-time. I have tried and eliminated some of them, but wanted a more precise answer to this question. Anyone out there got it?

Hibernate version: Any, but particularly the current stable.

Mapping documents: Not relevant

Code between sessionFactory.openSession() and session.close(): Not relevant

Full stack trace of any exception that occurs: Not relevant

Name and version of the database you are using: Oracle 9i

The generated SQL (show_sql=true): Not relevant

Debug level Hibernate log excerpt: Not relevant

read the readme in the libs directory

damn! I would have never thought of that... it is one of those days! my apologies.