Jars Required For Hibernate Annotations

For working with annotations in hibernate,  ensure our java version must be 1.5 or higher and we must use hibernate version 3.3 or higher, and in fact no need to use all the jar files to work with these annotations.

Following jar files are pretty much enough…

• antlr-2.7.6.jar
• commons-collections-3.1.jar
• dom4j-1.6.1.jar
• hibernate-commons-annotations-3.2.0.Final.jar
• hibernate-core-3.6.7.Final.jar
• hibernate-jpa-2.0-api-1.0.1.Final.jar
• javassist.jar
• jms-1.1.jar
• jsr250-api-1.0.jar
• jta-1.1.jar
• log4j-1.2.16.jar
• ojdbc14.jar
• slf4j-api-1.6.1.jar
• slf4j-log4j12-1.6.1.jar

Total 14 jar files we need to set in the class path to work with these annotations with hibernate framework, actually i found all these jar files  in hibernate 3.3 and 3.4 versions, download both versions and pick these jar files. Still we can eliminate few jar files out of 14 jars but let it be ?

And one more thing is jar files name must be same as what i have given above, with any version.

Let us start the applications on these annotations from the next session.