import org.hibernate.*;
^
nataraja\nataraja.java:7: cannot find symbol
symbol : class Session
location: class nataraja.nataraja
Session session = null;
^
nataraja\nataraja.java:10: cannot find symbol
symbol : class SessionFactory
location: class nataraja.nataraja
SessionFactory sessionFactory = new Configuration().configure().buildSessionFactory();
^
nataraja\nataraja.java:10: cannot find symbol
symbol : class Configuration
location: class nataraja.nataraja
SessionFactory sessionFactory = new Configuration().configure().buildSessionFactory();


How to include those required packages?
What jar files do i need to have?
How to execute a simple program?

Thanks in advance

Depends on the version of Hibernate you are using. If you have 3.3.1 or above there is a folder lib/required. And you need hibernate3.jar or course.

Thanks CDillinger for your reply.

I am new to hibernate. So i am in great confusion.
I have jdk 1.5.10 installed in my machine.
I dont have eclipse as for now.

Also i have the following jar files hibernate-core,hibernate-commons-annotations,hibernate-annotations,hibernate-entitymanager,
hibernate-jmx,hibernate-validator,hsqldb.

I created a class file with name First_Hiberanate_Exercise and Employee.
This Employee class is mapped to Employee table in MySql database.
And I have 2 XML files
* Hibernate.cfg.xml for setting connection with the database and mapping to particular table.
* Employee.hbm.xml for mapping to table fields.

When i tried to compile the two .java files (First_Hiberanate_Exercise.java and Employee.java)
using javac classpath .;hibernate-core.jar First_Hiberanate_Exercise.java
It compiled succesfully.

But i am not able to execute it.
Also mention the correct syntax for executing it.


If you dont mind can you please paste here a sample program including the xml files...

C:\javap>java -classpath .;hibernate-core.jar First_Hibernate_Exercise
Initial SessionFactory creation failed.java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/dom4j/DocumentException
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at First_Hibernate_Exercise.main(First_Hibernate_Exercise.java:27)

I am getting this error while executing.

Downloading everything that sounds like hibernate doesn't solve your problem... If you go to www.hibernate.org and download "Hibernate Core" you get a zip-File which contains the folder I mentioned above. All those jar-Files are required. (Plus a logger-Implementation for slf4j).

thanks CDillinger...

I cleared all the hurdles...