Add Hibernate Support to a Java Web App

I've written a functioning Java web application using Eclipse and Tomcat. The codebase is pretty small, with ~10 POJO classes totaling about 1400 lines of code. The task is to add support for Hibernate persistence to this, using either the HSQLDB or Derby databases. Eventually I may need to support both, or even additional RDBMS so there may be a follow-on job for that work. I will work with the winning bidder on a plan for how to get started. I'm thinking of a plan where I zip up my entire Eclipse environment and put a copy in a place where you can ftp it. This way you'd have the project all set up and ready to use, and when done you can send back just the source tree which would be much smaller. But there may be other ways. The client side is not a web browser but a dedicated program. I will deliver a script which provides canned data to the server for testing purposes. ## Deliverables All config files and code changes (source) required to do persistence via the latest Hibernate release. Since I will be integrating these changes into my own development environment, you'll need to stay engaged long enough to answer setup questions until it works for me as it works for you. No installation code is required other than help with extraction and configuration. The test of reasonable persistence is of course that the server can be stopped and restarted without losing any data held in the POJOs. All deliverables will be considered "work made for hire" under U.S. Copyright law. Buyer will receive exclusive and complete copyrights to all work purchased. (No GPL, GNU, 3rd party components, etc. unless all copyright ramifications are explained AND AGREED TO by the buyer on the site per the coder's Seller Legal Agreement). * * *This broadcast message was sent to all bidders on Friday May 18, 2007 11:24:34 AM: Based on some of the early feedback, I want to clarify something in the original request: There is no existing database, just the Java code. I know Hibernate offers tools to generate Java code from a schema but this is the other way around. I need Hibernate mapping files to persist Java objects via either HSQLDB or Derby, and eventually both. ## Platform Java 5, Eclipse 3.2, latest stable release of either HSQLD or Derby. All code should be 100% Java and thus non-platform-specific. Your development platform could be either Windows or Mac.