i am new to hibernate. I have managed to connect to database using java standalone application. Now i am using a servlet to retrieve data from a table having a field say "name". can any1 tell me how should i do it?

i am using tomcat 5 and hibernate 2.1.6.

thanks in advance....

there is a reference guide, you can find it here
http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/reference/en/html/

I have solved the problem earlier to ur reply... but thanks for the reply...