Geronimo & Hibernate

[Brian Martinez]

I hope you folks don't mind me asking a question regarding an old, old post made to geronimo-dev back in 2004.

See, I've recently been tasked with installing a number of Java/Java-related components as I am the (relatively new) Systems Administrator for our department.  I simply cannot wrap my head around how complex some of this stuff seems.

Anyway, long(er) story short I've been asked to "add Hibernate to Geronimo."  I have a Geronimo installation up and running, and our developers have added a couple of *.war files to the deploy directory, so things are working good.  I just have no idea how to add Hibernate to Geronimo!  Hibernate's documentation is not very clear.  Google searches of various sorts (integrating Hibernate with Geronimo, Installing Hibernate and Geronimo, Hibernate AND Geronimo, etc.) have been less than fruitful for me.  That is until I came across this post:

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/geronimo-dev/200406.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

A germinate.jar file is mentioned.  Can I make use of this to "add Hibernate to Geronimo?"  I tried looking at the base webpage that is linked the jar file to, but it was Forbidden to view.  I also tried looking at the site www.coredevelopers.net, but that didn't help me much either.  Can you help point me in the right direction?  Am I even making sense?

I appreciate your time and any response.  Thanks!
./brm