This book is written for professional Java developers who already understand how to build server-side Java applications. The book assumes no previous experience with Hibernate, though readers should have a general familiarity with databases and Web development.
What does this book cover?
After a quick overview of Hibernate in the first two chapters, the authors jump right to the code. They show how to do the following:
Obtain and install Hibernate
Build the Hibernate development environment
Use Hibernate to connect to databases
Use Hibernate to create persistent classes and objects
Use the Hibernate database query language and transaction management functions
Use the Hibernate APIs
After covering these essentials, the authors go further, showing readers how to use Hibernate in the real world. This means demonstrating how to use Hibernate with other popular tools that readers are using (including Eclipse, Tomcat, Maven, Struts, and XDoclet). This book takes a very real-world, hands-on approach to these topics and includes many working code examples, as well as a sophisticated sample application.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Full of typos
The source code was obviously not proofread. Beyond that, the book is quite readable.
Rating: - ZERO STARS. Did this book have an editor?
Total waste of money. As I started reading it, I started to notice coding mistakes everywhere. I thought I was just misunderstanding the topic but then it became clear that these are really mistakes! It is obvious that the code examples were never compiled and tested! Just incredible. Hibernate isn't an easy topic when first encountered, but even a Struts code example has a glaring error!
Any book with code examples should have zero errors in the code - we have had the technology ... Read More
Rating: - Are you kidding me?
This book was/is badly written and provides erroneous examples... I can't say that I am an expert in Hibernate(far from it), but I found several mistakes in this book. For anyone who is looking to get familiar with the powers of Hibernate don't look here. PLEASE DO NOT LOOK HERE!
Rating: - Worst tech manual on Hibernate to date:
If I were the publisher I'd have this book yanked. What an embarrassment. This book gives a very basic understanding of Hibernate and leaves all of the important details out.
Perfect example: at the bottom page 205
We'll discuss each of the joins in detail....
Chapter ends on page 206. Hardly any information whatsoever on a topic that is key to using a database.
For the love of God please take this joke off the shelves. I've never felt so cheated on a tech book ... Read More
Rating: - A really bad book - do not buy
I'm a fan of a lot of Wrox books - I probably own 15-20 of them. This is the wost one I have ever bought.
When learning a new technology with a book, I like to start with an overview, then some simple examples. I read the chapters that cover those start to finish. I then selectively read other parts of the book where I need more detailed knowledge, and save the rest of the book for reference on an as-needed basis. This book was laid out (if you simply look at the Table of Contents) as ... Read More
- Full of typos
- ZERO STARS. Did this book have an editor?
