Hibernate [Electronic resources] : A Developers Notebook نسخه متنی

1.3 Getting Hibernate

This doesn't need much motivation! You picked up this book because you
wanted to learn how to use Hibernate.

1.3.1 How do I do that?

Go to the Hibernate home page,
www.hibernate.org
, and click on
the 'Download' link. The Binary Releases section will tell you which version
is recommended for downloading; follow that advice. Make a note of
the version you want and proceed to the 'Download: SourceForge' link.
It takes you to a SourceForge downloads page. Scroll down until you find
the recommended release version of Hibernate itself (which will look
something like hibernate-2.x.y.zip or hibernate-2.x.y.tar.gz). Choose the archive format that is most convenient for you and download it.

Pick a place that is suitable for keeping such items around, and expand
the archive. We will use part of it in the next step, and investigate more
of it later on. You may also want to poke around in there some yourself.

While you're on the Hibernate downloads page, also pick up the Hibernate
Extensions. They contain several useful tools which aren't necessary
for an application running Hibernate, but are very helpful for
developers creating such applications. We'll be using one to generate
Java code for our first Hibernate experiment in the next chapter. This filename
will look like hibernate-extensions-2.x.y.zip (it won't necessarily
have the same version as Hibernate itself). Once again, pick your favorite
archive format, download this file, and expand it next to where you put
Hibernate.