Apache Maven 3 Cookbook

Chapter 5
Not surprisingly, we find Hibernate's stated goal being:
"..to relieve the developer from 95 percent of common data persistence related
programming tasks"
Getting ready
To use Hibernate in our Maven project, we will implement the Maven Hibernate3 plugin found
at http://mojo.codehaus.org/maven-hibernate3.
But first, we will create a simple Maven Java project and implement Hibernate-based
persistence. Use the following command to create a Maven Java project based on
maven-archetype-quickstart:
$ mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetypequickstart
-DgroupId=net.srirangan.packt.maven -DartifactId=TestAppCreate
-Dversion=1.0.0
This will create a simple Maven Java project with a valid POM file. If you have some basic
knowledge of Hibernate 3, it will be helpful in going along. This recipe will help merge this
knowhow of Hibernate 3 with your Maven project. Hibernate, in itself, is a vast topic and has
entire books dedicated to it. However, we will take a quick look at implementing Hibernate in
this project and complementing it with the use of the Hibernate Maven plugin.
How to do it...
The first step is to identify and include all of Hibernate's artifacts and its dependencies
into your Maven project. Open the pom.xml file of your Maven project and include the
following dependencies:
org.hibernate
hibernate-annotations
3.4.0.GA
jar
compile
org.hibernate
hibernate-core
3.3.2.GA
jar
compile
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