Hi,

I am extremely new to this concept provided by Hibernate but have gone through the Hibernate Reference Documentation (version 3.0.5) along with a little bit of Hibernate In Action. I am attempting to generate a Java Servlet to go along with the reference documentation's simple cat example (in chapter 1) and am not having any success at all. Is there an example of this type of simple Hibernate implementation with an appropriate Servlet somewhere that I can take a look at for reference?

Thanks,

New to Hibernate

Well, what classes do you have so far? A model object? An associated mapping file? The correct hibernate config file? A session factory? Some class that handles the persistence operations?

I understand that this is a test example, but try to break it up between the model, the persistence layer, and the client. I can't give u a class diagram here, but you need your client (your servlet in this case), your model (your persistent class), and the class that actually performs persistence operations (which could be your servlet, or some other class that handles update/delete operations) to operate together. The key is the Hibernate session, which is the primary connection between objects in memory vs. objects on disk.

Hope this helps a little bit

Don

Yes, so far i have the simple Cat class with getter and setter methods for each of the respective fields for the Cat database that I created in postgres as the documentation stated. Then there is the HibernateUtil class that gets the session that I am attempting to use in my CatServlet class but for some reason I cannot get the session to initialize. I keep getting the error in Tomcat that states NoClassDef found for the HibernateUtil portion that I am trying to get the current session for (from the Servlet code). I am begginning to believe that it is because I have a Tomcat configuration error in my Tomcat5.5\conf\server.xml file and am reading Tomcat documentation currently to see if this is the issue.