Hibernate App Development

Development Steps
1. Create a Simple Maven Project

2. Project Directory Structure

3. Add jar Dependencies to pom.xml

4. Creating the JPA Entity Class(Persistent class)

5. Create a Hibernate configuration file - hibernate.cfg.xml

6. Create a Hibernate utility class

7. Create the Main class and Run an Application

1. Create a Simple Maven Project

Tools and technologies used
• Eclipse IDE

• Maven - 3.5.3

• JDK - 1.8

Let's create step by step a simple maven project in Eclipse IDE.

Step-1
• Open Eclipse

• Click on File -> New -> Maven Project

Step-2
Click on Checkbox for both

• Create a simple project

• Use default Workspace location

• Click on next button

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Step-3
Provide GroupId and ArtifactId in next screen.

• GroupId: net.tr.hibdemo

• Artifact Id: hib-demo-project

• Name: hib-demo-project

• Description: Simple Hib Demo Project

Step-4
And you are all set. You should see a new Project in Eclipse with below structure.

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Step-5
As you can see in the maven project structure, the default java compiler version ( i.e. source and target setting ) is 1.5. To change the default settings, add the following snippet to pom.xml.
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.6.0</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>

(Optional steps)

After changes in pom.xml file, update the maven project. To update maven project right click on maven-project → Maven → Update Project.

Step-6
Add some dependencies to pom.xml file. Here we are adding junit dependency to pom.xml.
<project
xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>net.tr.maven-demo</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-demo-project</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<description>Simple Maven Demo Project</description>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.12</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.6.0</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>

Let's test our created project by creating a simple JUnit test.

Step-7
Create a package, named as net.tr.simpleproject, under src/test/java folder. Now create a class AppTest.java under src/test/java package and write the following code in it.

package net.tr.simpleproject;

import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Test;

public class AppTest {

@Test
public void test() {
Assert.assertEquals("Hello Maven", new String("Hello Maven"));
}
}

Step-8
Run your first maven project. Right click on AppTest.java → Run as → JUnit Test.

2. Project Directory Structure

3. Add jar Dependencies to pom.xml

Visit Maven Repository: Search/Browse/Explore (mvnrepository.com)

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<project
xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>net.tr.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-tutorial</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>
<artifactId>hibernate-java-config-example</artifactId>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/mysql/mysql-connector-java -->
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<version>8.0.32</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.hibernate/hibernate-core -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
<version>6.1.7.Final</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<sourceDirectory>src/main/java</sourceDirectory>
<plugins>

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 <plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.5.1</version>
<configuration>
<source>17</source>
<target>17</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>

4. Creating the JPA Entity Class(Persistent class)

A simple Persistent class should follow some rules:

• A no-arg constructor: It is recommended that you have a default constructor at least package visibility so that hibernate can create the instance o f the Persistent class by

the newInstance() method.

• Provide an identifier property: It is better to assign an attribute as id. This attribute behaves as a primary key in a database.

• Declare getter and setter methods: The Hibernate recognizes the method by getter and setter method names by default.

• Prefer non-final class: Hibernate uses the concept of proxies, which depends on the persistent class. The application programmer will not be able to use proxies for lazy

association fetching.

package net.tr.hibdemo.entity;
import jakarta.persistence.*;
@Entity
@Table(name = "student")
public class Student
{
@Id
@GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
@Column(name = "id")
private int id;
@Column(name = "first_name")
private String firstName;
@Column(name = "last_name")
private String lastName;
@Column(name = "email")
private String email;
public Student()
{
}
public Student(String firstName, String lastName, String email)
{
this.firstName = firstName;
this.lastName = lastName;
this.email = email;
}
public int getId() {
return id;
}
public void setId(int id) {
this.id = id;
}
public String getFirstName() {
return firstName;
}
public void setFirstName(String firstName) {
this.firstName = firstName;
}
public String getLastName() {
return lastName;
}
public void setLastName(String lastName) {
this.lastName = lastName;
}
public String getEmail() {
return email;
}
public void setEmail(String email) {
this.email = email;

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 this.email = email;
}
@Override
public String toString()
{
return "Student [id=" + id + ", firstName=" + firstName + ", lastName=" + lastName + ", email=" + email + "]";
}
}

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