Using Hibernate with pure Java

rfkrocktk · **Joined:** Mon Jul 07, 2008 8:07 pm **Posts:** 42

Hey all,
Is there any way to do all of my Hibernate setup in just pure Java without the need for ant, external build files, etc? I'm working in Spring and I just don't want to have to mess with all of that extra stuff.

- TK

Cameron McKenzie · **Posted:** Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:15 pm

Great question.

Personally, it's a big pet peeve of mine having to configure Ant and master Maven to get a simple tutorial or example from a book to work. I mean, if I want to learn Hibernate, I want to learn Hibernate, not a million different peripheral technologies that have the potential of working with Hibernate.

http://jpa.ezhibernate.com/Javacode/lea ... hhibernate

I acutally have a tutorial on my website, based on my book, Hibernate Made Easy, that sets up a Hibernate environment without any peripheral technologies - just the basics. And when I say basics, I mean:

1. A JDK
2. A Database (I used MySQL)
3. JDBC drivers so the JDK/JRE can connect to the database
4. The Hibernate Core download (and annotations as well)
5. Notepad and the command prompt I guess, for compiling code.

Here's the tutorial on my site:

http://jpa.ezhibernate.com/Javacode/lea ... hhibernate

Let me know what you think!

-Cameron McKenzie

rfkrocktk · **Joined:** Mon Jul 07, 2008 8:07 pm **Posts:** 42

I'm working on a spring configuration so I don't understand if I'm supposed to use a hibernate.cfg.xml file or not.

*extremely confused.

Is there any raw way to do it in Java?

Like so:

Code:

Hibernate.connect("jdbc:hsqldb:whatever/database", "username", "password");

And then be immediately be able to work with SessionFactories afterward.

Does anyone know of any good Spring/Hibernate tutorials? I'm crawling the web for 'em. I'm using Red5 with Hibernate and I can't seem to figure this out, It's not working and not throwing any errors...[/code]