In this tutorial, I take you through the various steps involved in installing MySQL and the MySQL GUI tools. I then install the Java Development Toolkit v 1.6 Update 10 (JDK). After JDK installation, I then extract the Hibernate Core and Hibernate Annotations modules, plucking out the pertinent JAR files, and placing them in a C:\_hiblib folder that will be made part of the runtime and compile time classpath. This is the first tutorial in the series. For more information, or to pick up my ...