This is a short neewbie guide how to create a Web application with Hibernate for application servers such as Tomcat. This article is based on the Getting started quickly road map that you can find in Hibernate home page.

Go to http://hibernate.org/ and download latest version.

After installing the downloaded Hibernate you will find (among other things) a doc/tutorial. 

There is also the lib directory with needed JAR files. If you need to download never versions of some JAR files the following links can be useful:

http://dom4j.org/

http://asm.objectweb.org/ 

http://cglib.sourceforge.net/ 

http://apache.org/ 

http://www.antlr.org/

http://java.sun.com/products/jta/

http://logging.apache.org/log4j/

http://hsqldb.org/

http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/

The following example is based on the following versions:

• Hibernate 3.2.5
• Dom4j 1.6.1
• Asm 1.5.3
• Cglib 2.1.3
• Antlr runtime 3.0.1
• Jta 1.1
• Jstl 1.1.2
• HSQLDB 1.8.0.9