Hello,

I m new to Hibernate and I am looking out for some material which will explain me the basics of Hibernate.
Looked up on the net but am confused since there are many available options.
Would like the experts to suggest some good material.
Also if there is any such documentation like when using Hibernate these things are must-do's or something like that, then it would be of great help.

I m using Hibernate with Spring, ne material on it will also be of great help.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Zainab

Please read this
http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/re ... ml_single/

This is a pretty huge document. But it is really worth reading it. I am still a newbie and this document is really helping me a lot. Once you start reading this document then you can go through the examples that come with the hibernate distribution.

For Spring this is the best
http://static.springframework.org/sprin ... index.html

Again pretty huge, but it covers almost everything in nice to understand way.

or simply just follow what our Getting started quickly guide:

http://hibernate.org/152.html

Good hibernate tutorial at

http://www.roseindia.net/hibernate/index.shtml

for spring, refer to
http://static.springframework.org/spring/docs/2.0.x/reference/index.html

the hibernate section