This is just a generic hibernate beginners question.

Hibernate version: 2.1

In the Hello World example the author performs a:



Could someone explain what the test class extended in order to provide the getSessionFactory() method? It isn't clear to me after reading this chapter how to set up a standard java application and I couldn't find on the WEB any complete examples.

Please ask this in the regular Hibernate User forum. It's also explained in the first chapter of the documentation... Follow this road map if you want to learn Hibernate: http://www.hibernate.org/152.html