To use this code, you need to add this section to your project.xml dependencies. Note, you may have some already! avalon-framework 4.1.4 http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon true excalibur-collections 1.0 http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon true excalibur-component 1.1 http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon true excalibur-instrument 1.0 http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon true excalibur-logger 1.0.1 http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon true excalibur-pool 1.2 http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon true log4j 1.2.7 http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/ true logkit 1.0.1 http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/logkit/ true hibernate 2.0-final true hibernate:hibernate-avalon 0.1 true odmg 3.0 true bcel 5.0 true dom4j 1.4 true cglib 1.0 true jcs 1.0-dev true You will also need to add this to your web.xml: Hibernate Session Filter org.apache.turbine.util.hibernate.HibernateFilter Hibernate Session Filter /* I will also try and add more examples of actualing using the Hibernate code... Thanks, Eric (epugh@upstate.com)