So you want to learn Hibernate

Me too. Unfortunately, I'm finding the learning curve just a bit steep – or maybe it's just that my brain is not wired the right way. I like to start with the simplest example that does something and then start playing from there. The examples in the Hibernate documentation weren't quite what I was looking for. For one thing, they all seemed to run inside an App Server. So here is my version of a simple Hibernate application.

And with that behind me, I have to say that getting started with Hibernate wasn't so bad. It just wasn't obvious that it would turn out to be this simple.