Java is too complicated

I'm trying to get hibernate and spring working together and finding it REALLY REALLY frustrating to get simple transactions working. Google hasn't come to my rescue yet. In this case I suspect it is because there are some many variations of how you configure it and not many people are using it the way I'm trying to (maybe that is the problem...) I'm thinking this is probably a common experience. These frameworks are extremely powerful but also awfully complicated and hard to master.