Create a simple Hibernate example with Maven and Eclipse

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>com.javawebtutor</groupId>
  <artifactId>HibernateSampleExample</artifactId>
  <packaging>jar</packaging>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <name>HibernateSampleExample</name>
  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
  <dependencies>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>junit</groupId>
			<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
			<version>3.8.1</version>
			<scope>test</scope>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
			<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
			<version>4.3.5.Final</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>mysql</groupId>
			<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
			<version>5.1.6</version>
		</dependency>

	</dependencies>
</project>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://www.hibernate.org/dtd/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">

<hibernate-configuration>
	<session-factory>
		<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</property>
		<property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/javawebtutor</property>
		<property name="hibernate.connection.username">root</property>
		<property name="hibernate.connection.password">mukesh</property>
		<property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</property>
		<property name="show_sql">true</property>
		<property name="format_sql">true</property>
		<property name="hbm2ddl.auto">update </property>
		<mapping resource="user.hbm.xml" />
	</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

package com.javawebtutor;

import java.util.Date;

public class User {
	private int userId;
	private String username;
	private String createdBy;
	private Date createdDate;

	public String getUsername() {
		return username;
	}

	public void setUsername(String username) {
		this.username = username;
	}

	public String getCreatedBy() {
		return createdBy;
	}

	public void setCreatedBy(String createdBy) {
		this.createdBy = createdBy;
	}

	public Date getCreatedDate() {
		return createdDate;
	}

	public void setCreatedDate(Date createdDate) {
		this.createdDate = createdDate;
	}

	public int getUserId() {
		return userId;
	}

	public void setUserId(int userId) {
		this.userId = userId;
	}

}

<?xmlversion="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPEhibernate-mappingPUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">

<hibernate-mapping>
	<class name="com.javawebtutor.User"table="USER">
		<id name="userId"type="int"column="USER_ID">
			<generator class="assigned"/>
		</id>
		<property name="username">
			<column name="USERNAME"/>
		</property>
		<property name="createdBy">
			<column name="CREATED_BY"/>
		</property>
		<property name="createdDate"type="date">
			<column name="CREATED_DATE"/>
		</property>
	</class>
</hibernate-mapping>

package com.javawebtutor;

import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
import org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration;

public class HibernateUtil {
	private static final SessionFactory sessionFactory = buildSessionFactory();

	private static SessionFactory buildSessionFactory() {
		try {
			// Create the SessionFactory from hibernate.cfg.xml
			return new Configuration().configure().buildSessionFactory();
		} catch (Throwable ex) {
			// Make sure you log the exception, as it might be swallowed
			System.err.println("SessionFactory creation failed." + ex);
			throw new ExceptionInInitializerError(ex);
		}
	}

	public static SessionFactory getSessionFactory() {
		return sessionFactory;
	}

	public static void shutdown() {
		// Close caches and connection pools
		getSessionFactory().close();
	}

}

package com.javawebtutor;

import java.util.Date;

import org.hibernate.Session;

public class Test {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		Session session = HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory().openSession();

		session.beginTransaction();
		User user = new User();

		user.setUserId(1);
		user.setUsername("Mukesh");
		user.setCreatedBy("Google");
		user.setCreatedDate(new Date());

		session.save(user);
		session.getTransaction().commit();

	}

}