Connecting PostgreSQL 9.2.1 with Hibernate

This is a hibernate.cfg.xml for posgresql and it will help you with basic hibernate configurations for posgresql.

<!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.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect</property>        <property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">org.postgresql.Driver</property>        <property name="hibernate.connection.username">postgres</property>        <property name="hibernate.connection.password">password</property>        <property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/hibernatedb</property>        <property name="connection_pool_size">1</property>        <property name="hbm2ddl.auto">create</property>        <property name="show_sql">true</property>       <mapping class="org.javabrains.sanjaya.dto.UserDetails"/>    </session-factory></hibernate-configuration>

This is the hibernate.cfg.xml file to connect postgresql 9.5 and this is help to you basic configuration.

 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?><!--  ~ Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java  ~  ~ License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1 or later.  ~ See the lgpl.txt file in the root directory or <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html>.  --><!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration SYSTEM        "http://www.hibernate.org/dtd/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd"><hibernate-configuration>    <session-factory>        <!-- Database connection settings -->        <property name="connection.driver_class">org.postgresql.Driver</property>        <property name="connection.url">jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5433/hibernatedb</property>        <property name="connection.username">postgres</property>        <property name="connection.password">password</property>        <!-- JDBC connection pool (use the built-in) -->        <property name="connection.pool_size">1</property>        <!-- SQL dialect -->        <property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect</property>        <!-- Enable Hibernate's automatic session context management -->        <property name="current_session_context_class">thread</property>        <!-- Disable the second-level cache  -->        <property name="cache.provider_class">org.hibernate.cache.internal.NoCacheProvider</property>        <!-- Echo all executed SQL to stdout -->        <property name="show_sql">true</property>        <!-- Drop and re-create the database schema on startup -->        <property name="hbm2ddl.auto">create</property>        <mapping class="com.waseem.UserDetails"/>    </session-factory></hibernate-configuration>

Make sure File Location should be under src/main/resources/hibernate.cfg.xml

If the project is maven placed it in src/main/resources, in the package phase it will copy it in ../WEB-INF/classes/hibernate.cfg.xml