Hibernate Setup

We can download the jar files directly from https://www.hibernate.org.
Link: Hibernate ORM

As of the writing this tutorial, the latest version is v5.4.

Hibernate via Maven:
Typically in real world, you will build Hibernate via maven build tool. In Maven, you can add a dependency section as shown below.

<dependencies>
	<dependency>
		<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
		<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
		<version>5.4.0.Final</version>
	</dependency>
<dependencies>