1. First step setup for the pom.xml with hibernate dependency ,

hibernate dependency need to before the struts2,because the javassist dependency

    
     com.google.guava
    

    
     guava
    

    
     RELEASE
    

    
     javax.servlet
    

    
     javax.servlet-api
    

    
     ${servlet.version}
    

    
     provided
    

    
     javax.servlet.jsp
    

    
     jsp-api
    

    
     ${servlet.jsp.version}
    

    
     jar
    

    
     test
    

    
     log4j
    

    
     log4j
    

    
     ${log4j.version}
    

    
     junit
    

    
     junit
    

    
     ${junit.version}
    

    
     test
    

    
     org.hibernate
    

    
     hibernate-core
    

    
     ${hibernate.version}
    

    
     org.jboss.spec.javax.transaction
    

    
     jboss-transaction-api_1.2_spec
    

    
     ${jboss.api.version}
    

    
     org.springframework
    

    
     spring-core
    

    
     ${spring.version}
    

    
     org.springframework
    

    
     spring-context
    

    
     ${spring.version}
    

    
     org.springframework
    

    
     spring-jdbc
    

    
     ${spring.version}
    

    
     org.springframework
    

    
     spring-tx
    

    
     ${spring.version}
    

    
     org.springframework
    

    
     spring-beans
    

    
     ${spring.version}
    

    
     org.springframework
    

    
     spring-web
    

    
     ${spring.version}
    

    
     org.springframework
    

    
     spring-expression
    

    
     ${spring.version}
    

    
     org.springframework
    

    
     spring-orm
    

    
     ${spring.version}
    

    
     commons-dbcp
    

    
     commons-dbcp
    

    
     ${spring.dbcp.version}
    

    
     xml-apis
    

    
     xml-apis
    

    
     ${spring.xmapis.version}
    

    
     org.apache.struts
    

    
     struts2-core
    

    
     ${struts2.version}
    

    
     org.apache.struts
    

    
     struts2-convention-plugin
    

    
     ${struts2.version}
    

    
     org.apache.struts
    

    
     struts2-json-plugin
    

    
     ${struts2.version}
    

    
     org.apache.struts
    

    
     struts2-config-browser-plugin
    

    
     ${struts2.version}
    

    
     org.apache.struts
    

    
     struts2-junit-plugin
    

    
     ${struts2.version}
    

    
     test
    

    
     org.apache.struts
    

    
     struts2-spring-plugin
    

    
     ${struts2.version}
    

2. ApplicationContext.xml for hibernate :

class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate5.LocalSessionFactoryBean">

    
     ${hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto}
    

    
     ${hibernate.dialect}
    

    
     ${hibernate.show_sql}
    

    
     ${hibernate.format_sql}
    

3. Install the hibernate tool to generate the entity class automatically:

choose the “hibernate tool” and “hibernate maven integration” and follow the step to install it .

4.using the hibernate reverse engineering(reveng.xml) to generate the reveng.xml file

5.using the hibernate code generate tool to generate the hibernate entities

6.create a new hibernate.cfg.xml file and then create the hibernate console

7.then you can use the HQL editor and hibernate criteria editor .