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How To Perform HCL/POJO Database Setup

1. Install MySQL.
   • Download MySQL.
2. Install Java SE with Netbeans (I used 7.0 on a Win7 64-bit machine).
   • Download JRE.
   • Download JDK.
   • Download Netbeans.
3. Create necessary database within MySQL server.
4. Create desired tables in previously-created database.
5. Create a Netbeans Java Application project.
6. Generate Hibernate files.
   • Generate Hibernate config file.
   • Generate Hibernate mapping file.
   • Generate Java class files (reverse engineer option).
7. Use SessionFactory class (within HCL) to manage tables.