Your next assignment is...

I have a mentor type character who gives me projects to do on a regular basis... and then messages me asking for it. My next assignment then was to do setup Hibernate and be able to do CRUD on an object.

I had a couple of problems getting going related to my box itself. For whatever reason, it takes ages to unzip files. I needed Ant, HSQL DB and the hibernate jar files... and it took painfully long.

I've been working for a while on a simple example based on the Hibernate Reference Documentation but I've run into an issue with the List, eclipse seems to choke on it. I get an error that says:

List is a raw type. Reference to generic type List <E> should be parameterized

The List it mentions is from

import java.util.List;

The line in question is:

List stuff = psm.listPersistedStuff();

and the function declaration is:

private List listPersistedStuff()

I think some post Java 5 generics stuff is getting in the way. I've never used generics before and I guess I'll be learning quickly :). But if anyone knows what's wrong here, I would appreciate a pointer or two. Some of the Sun forums talk about suppressing the warnings in the function, but they also suggest that is a poor way to get around the problem. So I am not going to.

My JDK in case anyone is wondering is 1.6.