java - Maven - how to add all required dependencies for hibernate?

Question

I have downloaded the zip from the Hibernate website and we have a folder which contains all required jars.

But I want to to this with Maven. Do I need to check which are the required libraries for this Hibernate version and add them manually in the pom.xml?

Is there a way just to add hibernate and maven to add all required libraries itself?

Answer 1

If you want to use JPA with Hibernate, you only need a single Maven dependency. Refer to the download page:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
    <artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
    <version>5.4.10.Final</version>
</dependency>

This dependency will pull all the required other artifacts as transitive dependencies (like the JPA API, Hibernate Core and a lot of others).

This is the power of Maven. You don't need to add anything manually to the classpath or figure out yourself which jars you should add. One Maven dependency will declare as transitive dependencies everything that it needs.