<hibernate-configuration>
    <session-factory>
        <!-- Database connection settings -->
        <property name="connection.driver_class">org.apache.derby.jdbc.ClientDriver</property>
        <property name="connection.url">jdbc:derby://localhost:1527/info</property>
        <property name="connection.username">app</property>
        <property name="connection.password">app</property>
       
        <!-- JDBC connection pool (use the built-in) -->
        <property name="connection.pool_size">1</property>
       
        <!-- SQL dialect -->
        <property name="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.DerbyDialect</property>
       
        <!-- Echo all executed SQL to stdout -->
        <property name="show_sql">false</property>
       
        <!-- Mapping files -->

        <mapping resource="Form.hbm.xml"/>
    </session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

<hibernate-mapping>
    <class name="myPackage.Form" table="USERTABLE">
        <id name="userID" type="int">
            <generator class="increment"/>
        </id>
       
        <property name="userName" type="string"/>
        <property name="password" type="string"/>
        <property name="email" type="string"/>   
        <property name="userState" type="string"/>   
        <property name="city" type="string"/>   
    </class>
</hibernate-mapping>

Query query = session.createQuery("select form from Form as form where form.email = ?");
query.setString(1, email);
Form form = (Form) query.uniqueResult();