Example Animal insertion Main class

Main.java

import beans.Animal;
import beans.Genus;
import beans.Location;
import beans.Species;
import org.hibernate.Session;
import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
import org.hibernate.Transaction;
import org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration;
import org.springframework.orm.hibernate5.HibernateTemplate;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {

        Configuration cfg=new Configuration();
        cfg.configure("hibernate.cfg.xml");

//creating seession factory object
        SessionFactory factory=cfg.buildSessionFactory();

//creating session object
        Session session=factory.openSession();

//creating transaction object
        Transaction t=session.beginTransaction();

        HibernateTemplate template = new HibernateTemplate();

        session.persist(new Location("American Trail Entrance",38.930527, -77.049301));

        session.persist(new Genus("Corvus"));

        session.persist(new Species("Corvus Corax"));


        Animal animal = new Animal();
        animal.setInfo("The Common Raven is one of the most intelligent species known to humanity.\nIris is fully flighted and was hand-raised to be an education ambassador.");
        animal.setName("Iris");
        animal.setSex('F');
        animal.setPersonality("Ambitious, curious, and capricious");
        animal.setWeight(3.6); // All weight will be in pounds (lbs) for now
        animal.setArea(new Location("American Trail Entrance",38.930527, -77.049301));
        animal.setGenus(new Genus("Corvus"));
        animal.setSpecies(new Species("Corvus Corax"));
    session.persist(animal);
   t.commit();
   session.close();
    }
}