In this tutorial I will show you how to integrate Struts and Hibernate. After completing this tutorial you will be able to use Hibernate in your Struts project. We will be using Hibernate Struts plug-in to write high performance application using Struts and Hibernate.
Hibernate is Object-Oriented mapping tool that maps the object view of data into relational database and provides efficient persistence services such as create, read, update and delete (CRUD).
In this tutorial we will implement small search engine application that shows a search form to the user. User enters search string and presses search button. Struts framework process the request and passes it to the action for further processing. Action class uses Hibernate to make database calls and retrieves matching records from database and results are displayed to the user.
Full example code is provided with the tutorial and you can download and start working on it for your project or to learn Struts and Hibernate Integration. You can download the source code from here.
- Setting up MySQL Database and table
This section describes how to setup database and populate it with the data. We are using MySQL Database for this tutorial.
- Downloading Struts, Hibernate and Integrate It
This section explains you to setup the develop workbench for our Struts Hibernate tutorial
- Writing Hibernate configuration file, POJO class and Tutorial.hbm.xml (Hibernate mapping class)
In this section we will write required hibernate objects like configuration files and then integrate all the stuffs.
- Developing Hibernate Struts Plugin
In this section we will write Hibernate Struts Plugin Java code and integrate it with the Struts.
- Writing Web Client to Search the database using Struts Hibernate Plugin
In this section we will write web client to test struts Plugin. We will be developing a search form to search the tutorials from the table.
- Build and testing the application
In this section we will build our Struts Hibernate Plugin Application and then test.