diff --git a/ws/eclipse/HibIntro/src/main/java/hibintro/v3/PersistSingleUser.java b/ws/eclipse/HibIntro/src/main/java/hibintro/v3/PersistSingleUser.java
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+++ b/ws/eclipse/HibIntro/src/main/java/hibintro/v3/PersistSingleUser.java
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+package hibintro.v3;
+
+
+
+import hibintro.util.HibernateUtil;
+
+import org.hibernate.Session;
+import org.hibernate.Transaction;
+
+
+
+/**
+ * @author goik
+ * 
+ * Persisting a simple instance of {@link User}
+ *
+ */
+public class PersistSingleUser {
+
+  /**
+   * @param args not used.
+   */
+  public static void main(String[] args) {
+    final Session session = HibernateUtil.createSessionFactory("hibintro/v3/hibernate.cfg.xml").openSession();
+
+    final Transaction transaction = session.beginTransaction();
+
+    final User u = new User("goik", "Martin Goik");
+    session.save(u);
+
+    transaction.commit();
+  }
+}
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diff --git a/ws/eclipse/HibIntro/src/main/java/hibintro/v3/User.java b/ws/eclipse/HibIntro/src/main/java/hibintro/v3/User.java
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..79fa588d120c0ee351cfdc2c43358c832150af93
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+++ b/ws/eclipse/HibIntro/src/main/java/hibintro/v3/User.java
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+package hibintro.v3;
+
+import javax.persistence.Entity;
+import javax.persistence.Id;
+import javax.persistence.Transient;
+
+/**
+ * @author goik
+ * 
+ * A simple class indended to be mapped to a database server
+ *
+ */
+@Entity
+public class User {
+
+  String uid;
+  /**
+   * 
+   * @return  The user's unique login name e.g. "goik"
+   */
+  @Id
+  public String getUid() {
+    return uid;
+  }
+  /**
+   * @param uid See {@link #getUid()}.
+   */
+  public void setUid(String uid) {
+    this.uid = uid;
+  }
+  String cname;
+  /**
+   * @return The user's common name e.g. "Martin Goik"
+   */
+  public String getCname() {
+    return cname;
+  }
+  /**
+   * @param cname See {@link #getCname()}.
+   */
+  public void setCname(String cname) {
+    this.cname = cname;
+  }
+
+  boolean selected = false;
+  @Transient
+  public boolean isSelected() {
+   return selected;
+  }
+  public void setSelected(boolean selected) {
+     this.selected = selected;
+  }
+/**
+   * Hibernate/JPA require a default constructor 
+   */
+  public User() {}
+
+  /**
+   * @param uid See {@link #getUid()}.
+   * @param cname See {@link #getCname()}.
+   */
+  public User(String uid, String cname) {
+    this.uid = uid;
+    this.cname = cname;
+  }
+}
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diff --git a/ws/eclipse/HibIntro/src/main/java/hibintro/v3/hibernate.cfg.xml b/ws/eclipse/HibIntro/src/main/java/hibintro/v3/hibernate.cfg.xml
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+++ b/ws/eclipse/HibIntro/src/main/java/hibintro/v3/hibernate.cfg.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN"
+                                         "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">
+<hibernate-configuration>
+ <session-factory >
+  <property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</property>
+  <property name="hibernate.connection.password">XYZ</property>
+  <property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/hdm</property>
+  <property name="hibernate.connection.username">hdmuser</property>
+  <property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect</property>
+  <property name="hibernate.show_sql">true</property>
+  <property name="hibernate.format_sql">true</property>
+  <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">update</property>
+  
+  <mapping class="hibintro.v3.User"/>
+ </session-factory>
+</hibernate-configuration>