Adding JPA (via Hibernate) with Spring to Struts2 Project

This Guide Requires:

• Spring is already added to the project: integrating spring tutorial.
• A MySQL database is configured for the example we will use: Setup MySQL Message Store Database 
• Glassfish Connection Pool for MySQL has been created for the above database.

Here we will describe the process of adding JPA via Hibernate, we will be using some freatures of Netbeans.  

First a database should be configured and the the application server configured to make use of that connection to complete these steps follow: Set up MySQL and Configure Glassfish Application Server for JPA Demo

[this is still in progress]