
hi
what are the necessary jar files that we need to set in the classpath to execute a hibernate application

You can download the whole hibernate application from the given link:
Download Hibernate Source Code
After extracting the zip file, you will get the lib folder which consists of some essential jar files for hibernate.

first you extract the zip folder related to hibernate s/w then you will get the hibernate s/w now add these jar files to class path
hibernate3.jar(available in hibernate home directory)
asm.jar
antlr-1.7.6.jar
jta.jar (available in hibernate_home\lib folder)
dom4j.jar
commons-logging.jar
commons-collections.jar
cglib-someversion.jar(some version means some version number is there you add that file)
ojdbc14.jar (available in oracle s/w)
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