Following is the list of the packages/libraries required by Hibernate and you should install them before starting with Hibernate. To install these packages you would have to copy library files from /lib into your CLASSPATH, and change your CLASSPATH variable accordingly.
| S.N. | Packages/Libraries |
| 1 | dom4j - XML parsing www.dom4j.org/ |
| 2 | Xalan - XSLT Processor http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/ |
| 3 | Xerces - The Xerces Java Parser http://xml.apache.org/xerces-j/ |
| 4 | cglib - Appropriate changes to Java classes at runtimehttp://cglib.sourceforge.net/ |
| 5 | | log4j - Logging Faremwork http://logging.apache.org/log4j
| 6 | Commons - Logging, Email etc. http://jakarta.apache.org/commons |
| 7 | SLF4J - Logging Facade for Java http://www.slf4j.org |
