The products are installed with the Update Manager. Select Help > Install New Software and then push Add. Enter the following Location: http://objectgeneration.com/update
Then select that update site and select HiberObjects or DB Importer:
Both products need Eclipse 3.5 or higher running on JDK 5.0 or higher.
DB Importer and HiberObjects generates code that needs a JPA implementation such as Hibernate. These libraries can be found in the hibernate plugins in the distribution. They are also available from Hibernate.org.
HiberObjects generates equals and hashCode methods that use
Apache commons-lang.
If you generate GWT DTO's with HiberObjects, you need the following libraries: Dozer, Apache commons-logging, commons-beanutils, commons-collections and commons-lang. These libraries can also be downloaded as one bundle: runtime-libs.zip (8 MB)
HiberObjects Community Edition is open source licensed under the Eclipse Public License version 1.0. The source code is available in Mercurial here.
Some examples for DB Importer are available here. This includes JPA code for FireFox bookmarks and PHPBB3.