I am trying to go through the tutorial in the reference manual for hibernate 3.2.3. When i try to compile HibernateUtil.java it gives me an error: "package org.hibernate does not exist
import org.hibernate.*;"

I have downloaded hibernate, unziped it, i also did a build so that the hibernate class files would be available. They are located under C:\hibernate\build\classes\org\hibernate. The code i use is from the reference manual.
I am not sure what's going on. I even tried to put the whole path in the import statement but nothing seems to work. Any ideas ?
Thank you.

You did a build on the Hibernate source to include it in your project? I hope that's not what you're saying, because using jar files in a project is "Java 101 - Introduction to Java" type stuff. The hibernate jar has to be on your project's classpath.

First i tried to compile my code without building the hibernate package.
Then, i thought that maybe i needed to create the class files in the hibernate package. So i built it in the hibernate package not in my source code workspace.

That's what i was trying to figure out, if and what i needed to put in my classpath. I had the classpath set up for only the location of hibernate.
Thanks .

you need to copy your hibernate.jar to your context classpath.

i.e; if u r using Tomcat it should be WEB-INF/lib/

you need to copy few more jars from extracted hibernate folder.
you can find all jars which is required to add in Hibernate doc.


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