diff --git a/ws/eclipse/HibIntro/src/main/java/session1/LoadUser.java b/ws/eclipse/HibIntro/src/main/java/session1/LoadUser.java
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+++ b/ws/eclipse/HibIntro/src/main/java/session1/LoadUser.java
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+package session1;
+
+
+
+import hibintro.util.HibernateUtil;
+import org.hibernate.Session;
+import org.hibernate.Transaction;
+
+/**
+ * @author goik
+ * 
+ * Retrieval of a single {@link User} object from a database.
+ *
+ */
+public class LoadUser {
+
+   /**
+    * Retrieving a single {@link User} instance by means
+    * of its primary key value "goik".
+    * @param args unused
+    */
+   public static void main(String[] args) {
+      
+      User user;
+      {
+         final Session session = HibernateUtil.createSessionFactory("session1/hibernate.cfg.xml").openSession();
+         final Transaction transaction = session.beginTransaction();
+
+         user = (User) session.load(User.class, 1L);
+         final User user2 = (User) session.load(User.class, 1L);
+         System.out.println("user.equals(user2):" + user.equals(user2));
+         
+         transaction.commit();
+         session.close();
+      }
+
+      {
+         final Session session = HibernateUtil.createSessionFactory("session1/hibernate.cfg.xml").openSession();
+         final Transaction transaction = session.beginTransaction();
+
+         final User user2 = (User) session.load(User.class, 1L);
+         System.out.println("user.equals(user2):" + user.equals(user2));
+         
+         transaction.commit();
+         session.close();
+      }
+}
+}
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diff --git a/ws/eclipse/HibIntro/src/main/java/session1/PersistSingleUser.java b/ws/eclipse/HibIntro/src/main/java/session1/PersistSingleUser.java
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+++ b/ws/eclipse/HibIntro/src/main/java/session1/PersistSingleUser.java
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+package session1;
+
+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("session1/hibernate.cfg.xml").openSession();
+
+      final Transaction transaction = session.beginTransaction();
+      {
+         final User u = new User(123, "goik", "Martin Goik");
+         session.save(u);
+      }
+      transaction.commit();
+   }
+}
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diff --git a/ws/eclipse/HibIntro/src/main/java/session1/User.java b/ws/eclipse/HibIntro/src/main/java/session1/User.java
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/ws/eclipse/HibIntro/src/main/java/session1/User.java
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+package session1;
+
+import javax.persistence.Column;
+import javax.persistence.Entity;
+import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
+import javax.persistence.Id;
+import javax.persistence.Table;
+import javax.persistence.UniqueConstraint;
+
+/**
+ * @author goik
+ * 
+ *         {@link User} instances with primary key and unique constraint
+ * 
+ */
+@Entity
+@Table(uniqueConstraints={@UniqueConstraint(columnNames={"uid"}),
+      @UniqueConstraint(columnNames={"uidNumber"})})
+public class User {
+
+  @Id
+  @GeneratedValue
+  private Long id;
+  public Long getId() {return id;}
+  protected void setId(Long id) {this.id = id;}
+
+  int uidNumber;
+  public int getUidNumber() {return uidNumber;}
+  public void setUidNumber(int uidNumber) {this.uidNumber = uidNumber;}
+
+  String uid;
+
+  /**
+   * 
+   * @return The user's unique login name e.g. "goik"
+   */
+  @Column(nullable=false)
+  public String getUid() {return uid;}
+  public void setUid(String uid) {this.uid = uid;}
+
+  String cname;
+  /**
+   * @return The user's common name e.g. "Martin Goik"
+   */
+  @Column(nullable = false)
+  public String getCname() {return cname;}
+  public void setCname(String cname) {this.cname = cname;}
+
+  /**
+   * Hibernate/JPA require a default constructor
+   */
+  public User() {}
+
+  /**
+   * @param uid
+   *          See {@link #getUid()}.
+   * @param cname
+   *          See {@link #getCname()}.
+   */
+  public User(int uidNumber, String uid, String cname) {
+    setUidNumber(uidNumber);
+    setUid(uid);
+    setCname(cname);
+  }
+}
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diff --git a/ws/eclipse/HibIntro/src/main/java/session1/hibernate.cfg.xml b/ws/eclipse/HibIntro/src/main/java/session1/hibernate.cfg.xml
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+++ b/ws/eclipse/HibIntro/src/main/java/session1/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://www.hibernate.org/dtd/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">false</property>
+  <property name="hibernate.format_sql">true</property>
+  <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">update</property>
+  
+  <mapping class="session1.User"/>
+ </session-factory>
+</hibernate-configuration>