I want to start with using Hibernate within my development work.
To start experiemnting with it I would like using it in a standlone application by using NetBeans 4.0.
I downloaded Hibernate 2.1 and unzipped it in c:\java\hibernate-2.1
After doing this what else should I do (copying file(s), ...) to use Hibernate with NetBeans 4.0

Thanks for your help.

Read:

http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/refer ... quickstart
http://www.hibernate.org/116.html
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004 ... rnate.html
http://www.hibernate.org/78.html

And of course, go buy a copy of "Hibernate in Action."

The price of using Open Source isn't $$$, it's time. Especially time spent reading.

This is how everyone should start:

http://www.hibernate.org/Documentation/GettingStarted