Hibernate and Spring - Beginning Hibernate: From Novice to Professional - page 300

• The Java Standard Template Library JARs

• The HSQLDB driver JAR

• The Spring JAR

This requires the list of JAR files shown in Listing C-1 to be included in the WEB-INF/lib
directory of our example application.

Listing C-1. The Required JAR Files

antlr-2.7.6rc1.jar
asm-attrs.jar
asm.jar
cglib-2.1.3.jar
commons-collections-2.1.1.jar
commons-logging-1.0.4.jar
dom4j-1.6.1.jar
ehcache-1.1.jar
ejb3-persistence.jar
hibernate-annotations.jar
hibernate3.jar
hsqldb.jar
jdbc2_0-stdext.jar
jstl.jar
jta.jar
spring.jar
standard.jar
xml-apis.jar

Configuring Hibernate from a Spring Application
A conventional Hibernate application needs access to its database and the entity mapping
information. The point of access to a fully configured Hibernate environment is the session
factory, from which Session objects are obtained. Spring provides a bean to represent the
session factory, but provides a few additional options in order to configure its resources.
In our example application, we take the line of least resistance and use a Hibernate config-
uration file ( hibernate.cfg.xml ) to represent both the mapping information and the database
configuration. For easy reference when setting up a Spring application, we show a sample
Hibernate configuration file in Listing C-2.

Listing C-2. Familiar Territory: A Standard Hibernate Configuration File Used in Spring

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">