Hibernate Tutorial part 4 – annotations and maven
In the last part of my hibernate tutorials I showed how to get a simple application inserting data into a database. This part doesn't expand on that in terms of features, in fact, this tutorial actually does less! However, the last tutorial required you to download a whole load of JAR files, and manage all dependencies. I did make this easy for you, by providing a single download and telling you exactly what you needed - but this time, I'm going to make it even easier! The purpose of this is to get you started with Hibernate annotations, and Maven. All you need is a text editor, a working Java 5 or higher install, and Maven.
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Symfony Camp 2008 ( symfonycamp2008 ) was good fun, even if I did have a hang over for my presentation. As promised, here is my slides and the demo setup containing sfExtJsThemePlugin - I also have an online demo that's currently working, found here:
http://www5.pookey.co.uk/farm , the dev controller is in place at http://www5.pookey.co.uk/backend_dev.php/farm
my slides are here:
The whole app can be downloaded here: htdocs.tgz. I know that it seems there's a database password in, but I've changed it since, so don't bother trying 
Getting started with Maven and Spring
This guide is a quick introduction to getting started with Maven and Spring, and shows the making of a "Hello World" application
The only requirements for this project is a text editor, a Java install, and Maven.
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