Create a new social user in your database using the MySQL Administrator. Make sure to set the connections and password
Create a new social database schema using the MySQL Administrator
Make sure you have downloaded Eclipse for J2EE developers, Hibernate, JavaMail, and Connector/J
Start Eclipse J2EE and creae a new Java Project
Create packages, com.persistence and com.common
Create a new directory named lib in your project.
Add Hibernate, JavaMail, and Connector/J jar files to lib directory
Update build path to include Jars named here and here
Add helper files found here to the locations in your project identified in class
Run HibernateTestCase (Should create a Counter table in the social database)