User Manual
Downloading the Hibernate Distribution on Windows
NOTE: The Hibernate distribution described here is for Hibernate version 4.1.1.
1. Go to http://www.hibernate.org/downloads.html.
2. Click on the release bundles hyperlink under Release bundle section.
A web page from sourceforge.net,showing various Hibernate packages that can be
downloaded, appears.
3. Click hibernate4, and then click on 4.1.1.Final.
The links to the following files appear:
• hibernate-release-4.1.1.Final.zip
• hibernate-release-4.1.1.Final.tgz
4. Download the hibernate-release-4.1.1.Final.zip file.
NOTE:
• The hibernate-release-4.1.1.Final.zip and
hibernate-release-4.1.1.Final.tgz files include the Hibernate sample
application, the Hibernate framework libraries, Hibernate Annotations, and Hibernate
Entity Manager sub-projects. They do not include third party libraries that are required
to build the sample application.
• The difference between hibernate-release-4.1.1.Final.zip and
hibernate-release-4.1.1.Final.tgz files is in their compression format.
• The sample applications, namely Caveat Emptor and Event Manager web application,
discussed in this section have been verified using Hibernate version 3.5.1.
5. Extract the hibernate-release-4.1.1.Final.zip file into a directory on the Windows
system.
This directory will be the <Hibernate Home>.
Downloading Hibernate Dependency JAR Files using Gradle
Because Hibernate 4.1.1 dependency JARs are placed in the Maven repository, you must download
the dependency JAR files using Gradle.
NOTE: If you are downloading the Hibernate 3.5.1 or 3.6.8 dependency JARs, you must
download using Maven.
1. Go to the <Hibernate Home>\project directory on the Windows system.
2. Run the following command to build the Hibernate framework and create the Hibernate
dependency JARs:
command prompt> gradle clean build -x test
The Hibernate framework, Hibernate sub-projects, and dependency JAR files are downloaded
to C:\Documents and Settings\<User name
>\.gradle\caches\artifacts-8\filestore
where,
<User name> is the name of the user account being used on the Windows system.
Including the Hibernate Dialect for the SQL/MX database
The Hibernate dialect for the SQL/MX database is required for running any Hibernate application
on a NonStop system.
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