Book Excerpts : Hibernate Quickly :

Hibernate Quickly

by Patrick Peak and Nick Heudecker

Positioned as a layer between the application and the database, Hibernate is a powerful object/relational persistence and query service for Java. It takes care of automating a tedious task: the manual bridging of the gap between object-oriented code and the relational database. Hibernate Quickly gives you all you need to start working with Hibernate now.

The book focuses on the 20 percent you need 80 percent of the time. The pages saved are used to introduce you to the Hibernate "ecosystem": how Hibernate can work with other common development tools and frameworks like XDoclet, Struts, Webwork, Spring, and Tapestry.

The book builds its code examples incrementally, introducing new concepts as it goes. It covers Hibernate's many, useful configuration and design options, breaking a complex subject into digestible pieces. With a gradual "crawl-walk-run" approach, the book teaches you what Hibernate is, what it can do, and how you can work with it effectively.

What's Inside

• Writing mapping files and creating associations
• Hibernate with XDoclet, Struts, Webwork, Spring, and Tapestry
• Querying persistent objects
• Using Web application architecture
• Testing with JUnit and Ant

Download the PDF excerpt of Chapter 1: "Using Direct JDBC"

Reproduced from Hibernate Quickly by permission of Manning Publications, Inc. ISBN: 1932394419, copyright 2005. All rights reserved.

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