Hibernate with JPA

To use Hibernate as a persistence provider for the Java Persistence API (JPA) you must include the following jar files into your classpath:

• From Hibernate Entity Manager
  • hibernate-entitymanager.jar
  • lib/hibernate-annotations.jar
  • lib/hibernate-commons-annotations.jar
  • lib/jboss-archive-browsing.jar
• From Hibernate Core
  • hibernate3.jar
  • lib/antlr-2.7.6.jar
  • lib/asm-attrs.jar
  • lib/asm.jar
  • lib/c3p0-0.9.1.jar
  • lib/cglib-2.1.3.jar
  • lib/commons-collections-2.1.1.jar
  • lib/commons-logging-1.0.4.jar
  • lib/concurrent-1.3.2.jar
  • lib/dom4j-1.6.1.jar
  • lib/ehcache-1.2.3.jar
  • lib/javassist.jar
  • lib/log4j-1.2.11.jar

If you use a Java SE project you must also include the javaee.jar file from the Java EE 5 SDK.

Here is a sample persistence.xml file:

  
    org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence
    jdbc/webstore