Beginning Hibernate is ideal if youre experienced in Java with databases (the traditional, or 'connected,' approach), but are new to open source lightweight Hibernatethe most popular de facto object-relational mapping and database-oriented application development framework. This book packs in brand new information about the latest release of the Hibernate 3.2.x persistence layer and provides a clear introduction to the current standard for object-relational persistence in Java.
Experienced author Dave Minter and contributor Jeff Linwood provide more in-depth examples than any other books for Hibernate beginners. The authors also present material in a lively, example-based mannernot in a dry, theoretical, hard-to-read fashion. And since the book keeps its focus on Hibernate without wasting time on nonessential third-party tools, youll be able to immediately start building transaction-based engines and applications.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - A Solid "Intermediate" Book
This book is a good book on Hibernate, but not for the complete beginner, ss the title suggests.
The book moves quickly into advanced topics, introducing DAOs a little too early for a beginner, as another review has said. I think a total beginner might be frustrated with this book, or so some have complained. I think this book is more focussed on people who are beginning Hibernate, but have a good deal of experience working with other databases or database frameworks.
Rating: - Poorly organized and poorly written
Most APress books seem to be well done. Sadly, this book is poorly organized and poorly written. There is only one example program in the book and it does not compile due incorrect instructions and code omissions. You can fix the errors without too much trouble and compile the project, but the example is too simple to use in your work. The rest of the book outlines (without runnable examples) other aspects of the Hibernate api, but a programmer is going to want complete example applications that ... Read More
Rating: - A bad name for a really good book
I found this book to be really well organized and methodical, starting with the basics of Hibernate and working up to more complex aspects and features in a gradual, measured fashion. My only prior exposure to a book on Hibernate was Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook; it was short and sweet, and of necessity was kind of lightweight, not sufficient for really getting into Hibernate deeply. I looked at Java Persistence with Hibernate but found it kind of baroque. Although that seems to be the most popular ... Read More
Rating: - Best Way to Start with Hibernate Thus Far
New to Hibernate, I started with the advanced "Java Persistence with Hibernate". It was such a painful experience that I decided to look for a better introduction and chose "Beginning Hibernate". Our two year old project is already using Hibernate, and now I have to deal with it when fixing bugs and/or adding new features. Hibernate has been a huge source of problems on this project because the people who knew how to use it didn't do it right and now have left. Perhaps Hibernate also shares some of the ... Read More
Rating: - Not a book for beginner
I found only first 3 chapers are readable in this book. The chapters for Annotation, xml mapping are absolutely unreadabel. I'd like to see more complete examples with some brief explanation.
- A Solid "Intermediate" Book
- Poorly organized and poorly written
- Best Way to Start with Hibernate Thus Far
