There are many blogs and tutorials on this topic. However I faced many problems while integrating Hibernate 3.0 with Eclipse Helios. Most of the problems were related to the version mismatch among the components used to create a Hibernate project on Eclipse Helios. Software Requirements: 1. Eclipse Helios (This tutorial could work with other versions of Eclipse but it is specially designed for Helios version.) 2. hibernate-distribution-3.6.5.Final-dist bundle (zip file). Download the bundle from http://www.hibernate.org/downloads . It will be around 59.2 MB jar file. 3. MySql connector for Eclipse “mysql-connector-java-5.0.8 (zip)”. 4. slf4j-1.6.1 bundle (zip form) 5. apache-log4j-1.2.16 bundle(zip form) 6. commons-logging-1.1.1.jar Pre-Requisites: 1. ...