Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.71262 EAN: 9780596006969 Format: Illustrated ISBN: 0596006969 Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 190 Publication Date: May 10, 2004 Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Sales Rank: 156883 Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Product DescriptionDo you enjoy writing software, except for the database code? Hibernate:A Developer's Notebook is for you. Database experts may enjoy fiddling with SQL, but you don't have to--the rest of the application is the fun part. And even database experts dread the tedious plumbing and typographical spaghetti needed to put their SQL into a Java program. Hibernate: A Developers Notebook shows you how to use Hibernate to automate persistence: you write natural Java objects and some simple configuration files, and Hibernate automates all the interaction between your objects and the database. You don't even need to know the database is there, and you can change from one database to another simply by changing a few statements in a configuration file. Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook walks you through the ins and outs of using Hibernate, from installation and configuration, to complex associations and composite types. Two chapters explore ways to write sophisticated queries, which you can express either through a pure Java API, or with an SQL-inspired, but object-oriented, query language. Don't let that intimidate you though: one of the biggest surprises in working with Hibernate is that for many of the common real-world application scenarios, you don't need an explicit query at all. If you've needed to add a database backend to your application, don't put it off. It's much more fun than it used to be, and Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook shows you why. Here's what a few reviewers had to say: 'I'm sitting on an airplane after finishing Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook. It's rare to find a book on a new Java technology that you can get through on a domestic flight. That this notebook effectively and succinctly tackles object-relational mapping makes it, and Hibernate, even more impressive. Many books in this category would need to be checked luggage. With this book, you travel first class.' --Mike Clark 'A simple persistence framework deserves a simple book, and this one delivers. The examples are well described and easy to understand, yet sophisticated enough to demonstrate Hibernate in a real-world context. Jim, I'm a new fan.' --Bruce Tate About the new Developer's Notebook Series from O'Reilly: Developer's Notebooks are a new book series covering important new tools for software developers. Developer's Notebooks stress example over explanation and practice over theory. They are about learning by doing; by experimenting with tools and discovering what works. 'All lab, no lecture,' with a thoughtful lab partner to guide the way.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - A Must Have for Hibernate Developers
When doing projects that use mapping files, everyone gets a copy of this book. It is exactly what it is - a good handbook about Hibernate.
The only drawback to this book is that it covers only mapping files, without any focus on annotations.
Rating: - error & outdated
not only is this book pretty outdated as it only focuses on hibernate2 and not the newer release hibernate3 which is not backwards compatible... there was also a "serious technical error" early on in the book that set me back a while... google the corrections if you use this book.
the writing style was decent... i wouldn't mind reading an newer updated copy
Rating: - Still good years later
I purchased this book when it first came out, and this past weekend finally got around to doing all of the examples. I suggest downloading Hibernate2, which is what the book covers. Hibernate3 is a bit different in structure and will just slow down what you are trying to learn.
Needless to say 2 days later I am building my backend with Hibernate and upset with myself that I did not read and study this book a year go.
I do suggest getting a nice Hibernate reference book ... Read More
Rating: - excellent book
Yes...
i just got it yesterday and brought it to work and it helped me solve an issue that has been buggin me since 2 days ago!
The examples seem to be quiet easy to read and the format is basically what a developer would ask very intuitive.
Rating: - Good book but needs an update
For the versions of Hibernate and Hsqldb it was written for this is an excellent book to get you up and running, and a good introduction into the Hibernate platform.
But Hibernate and Hsqldb both have moved on and many (most) of the examples no longer work without modification.
Nothing that searching the web and Hibernate documentation can't find quickly though, leaving it still a viable introduction into the concepts and syntax.
I personally like thin books and this one certainly ... Read More
- A Must Have for Hibernate Developers
- error & outdated
- Good book but needs an update
