Hi

I have to retrive only student joindate from student table.
Is it must to write .hbm.xml file?.
Without .hbm.xml file, how to retrive data from student table.

Iam new to hibernate.

Thanks in advance.

The hbm file is a mapping between the java object and the data base.

So, for example if you have Class Student the hbm map this class to a table in the data base and map the class properties to the table columns.

You can do this mapping with doclet (if you are using doclet you dont need hbm).

Go to the first chapter in the Hibernate tutorial and you will see how to create a hibernate application