April 2008
Intermediate to advanced
380 pages
11h 26m
English
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Chapter 11. Hibernate and Eclipse: Really Using the Hibernate Tools
Installing the Hibernate Tools in Eclipse
If you’re working with Eclipse as your Java development environment (as so many of us are these days), you can take far deeper advantage of the Hibernate Tools than we have been in the rest of the book (where we just used them to add Hibernate-related capabilities to our Ant builds).
How do I do that?
Before diving in, make sure you’re running a recent enough version of Eclipse. The current release of the Hibernate Tools requires at least Eclipse 3.3 and WTP 2.0. So here’s an excuse to upgrade if you’ve been putting it off.
The easiest way to install the Hibernate Tools into Eclipse is through Eclipse’s normal update site mechanism. Start by telling Eclipse where to find Hibernate Tools, by choosing the option in the menu, as shown in Figure 11-1.
Figure 11-1. Updating features in Eclipse
We want to install something completely new, rather than update an existing plug-in, so choose Search for new features to install, and click .
Eclipse doesn’t automatically know about the Hibernate Tools update site, so we need to explain where to find it. Click on , as shown in Figure 11-2.
Figure 11-2. Installing from a new Update Site in Eclipse ...
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