I spent a good portion of the afternoon setting up an instance of Weblogic with Hibernate. Good God.

It takes all together too much effort to create the Weblogic domain, a directory structure, stub out a session façade, make a DTO, create a Hibernate mapping, create a Hibernate config, generate the deployment descriptors, make a build file, get the twenty additional needed libraries assembled, and get a session factory in JNDI.

Just to get a working server application shell that doesn't (yet) do anything. We haven't even started talking about the client application.

This really needs to get easier some day.