Well, how well do you know eclipse? If you know Eclipse, running Hibernate is as easy as putting the right jar files on the classpath, and then compling and running some code.
Here's a simple tutorial that shows you how to use Hibernate without any
IDE at all - just the JDK and the distribution files from hibernate.org.
Getting Started with Hibernate and JPA Tutorial
That's a very simple and basic tutorial. If you know how to use Eclipse, it'll be even easier!
-Cameron McKenzie