Overview
This is the first part of tutorial about using Hibernate and JPA. This part is an introduction to to JPA and Hibernate. The second part will look at putting together a Spring MVC application using Spring ORM to reduce the amount of code necessary to create a CRUD application.
To complete this you'll want to be familiar with Maven, JUnit, SQL and relational databases.
Dependencies
Firstly we'll need a couple of basic dependencies. Essentially there are three layers:
