Mastering Hibernate: The Insider's Guide

Author: [USA] Elliot
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Do you love writing software programs but hate database coding? "Hibernate: The Programmer's Guide" is exactly what you need. Database experts might enjoy tinkering with SQL, but you don't have to. The rest of the application is where the real fun lies. Moreover, database experts even worry about monotonous applications that need to embed their SQL in a Java program. "Hibernate: The Programmer's Guide" shows how to automate configuration: write some Java objects and simple configuration files, and Hibernate will automate all interactions between these objects and the database. You don't even need to know where the database is, and by changing a few statements in a configuration file, you can easily switch from one database to another. "Hibernate: The Programmer's Guide" takes you through the use of Hibernate, from installation and configuration to complex associations and composite types. Two chapters explore how to implement complex queries: through a pure Java API or an SQL-driven but object-oriented query language. One of the biggest surprises of using Hibernate is that for many common real-world application scenarios, you don't even need precise queries. But don't let this confuse you. If you've been intending to add a database to your application, don't delay—this is more interesting than ever before, and "Hibernate: The Programmer's Guide" will tell you why.
The "Programmer's Guide" series, as the title claims, is exactly what power users want to know when they're learning a new language, API, or working on a project—the handwritten notes and annotations reveal what they need before they even start. That's the problem-solving code, annotated so heavily that the paper's creases have more markings than the notes themselves. Interestingly, the focus here isn't on what's "pretty" or "interesting," but on the "must-deliver" requirements...