Any use for simple Hibernate examples?

Hi all,

Would there be any use in me posting some very simple Hibernate examples to this forum? If so, how?

Everything I've learned about Hibernate is quite impressive, and I think everybody should be using it. Toward that goal, I want to lubricate the learning process so others can learn it quickly.

There seems to be huge number of Hibernate examples out there. Unfortunately, they are so complicated that the reader has be be already familiar with Hibernate to understand what parts of the example are relevant to the concept at hand and which part are just the author trying to show something that I don't care about.

I think the best way to learn a tool is to see fully worked-out examples that focus on one concept, and just one concept, and strip away everything that doesn't support that one concept. Strip away Maven. Strip away Ant. Strip away web servers. Strip away all unnecessary application logic. Strip away useful utilities that don't support the one concept. Just illustrate one concept.

And make sure the example code runs stand-alone, so the reader can see everything that needs to happen. That way if it doesn't run, the reader will know that it is a problem in the setup, not something wrong with his/her understanding of the concept.

In my struggles I have been building such examples, to make sure I understand the concepts. I have built 'distilled' examples for:

POJO

Simple one-to-many associations

Inner classes

Eager loading

Lazy loading

Cascade saving

Tree structure

Embedded classes

final classes and final instance variables

Simple container

Sure, post them in the Blog Around the Campfire forum.

I've made a first attempt. See my Hibernate examples.

Christopher,
You have great ideas! Strongly appreciated!

If that doesn't deserve a cow, I don't know what does.

cow granted.