1.3 get hibernate
This doesn't need much motivation! You pick up this book because you want to learn how to use Hibernate.
1.3.1
what should I do?
Visit the Hibernate home page, www.hibernate.org, then click the 'Download' link. The binary release area will tell you that version is recommended to download, and it will be available. Note the version you want and then continue until the 'Download: SourceForge' link. It guides you to the SourceForge download page. The down scroll page knows the recommended Hibernate release version (it looks like hibernate-2.x.y.zip or hibernate-2.x.tar.gz). Select the most convenient archive file format you use and then download it.
Select a suitable location and expand the archive file. We will use it in the following steps and then study more parts. You may also explore some of them.
When you have the download page of Hibernate, remember to choose Hibernate Extensions (Hibernate extension). These extensions include several useful tools that are not necessary to run hibernate, but it is very helpful for the development of created such applications. If we use one of the work to generate Java code for our first Hibernate experience. Its file name looks like hibernate-extensions-2.x.y.zip (it doesn't need to be the same as Hibernate itself). Once again, choose your most suitable archive file format, download the file, expand the file in the place where you put Hibernate.
