Set up a Database named social

Create a new user in your database using the MySQL Administrator. Set the name and password to social

Create a new social database schema using the MySQL Administrator

Start Eclipse J2EE and create a new maven web app project

Update the default web.xml and pom.xml files to ones you used in previous class tasks, making sure that the project name and packages matches in the files

Create packages, com.persistence and com.common

Add helper files found here to the locations in your project identified in class. Note that hibernate.cfg.xml and log4j2.xml files go in the default package.

In the log4j2.xml file make sure to change the directory name to your user directory

Run HibernateTestCase (Should create a Counter table in the social database)