Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook

Phil Windley // Mon Jun 28 13:52:00 2004

<MAP NAME="boxmap-p8"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="14, 200, 103, 207" HREF="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm/privacy-policy.html?o=1" ><AREA COORDS="0,0,10000,10000" HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/windleyofente-20" ></MAP><img src="http://rcm-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/rcm/120x240.gif" width="120" height="240" border="0" usemap="#boxmap-p8" alt="Shop at Amazon.com"> After reading that the EJB Expert Group determined to use Hibernate for lightweight persistent objects in EJB 3.0, I figured I ought to learn a little more about it. I bought James Elliott's Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook. If you haven't seen them yet, "Developer Notebooks" are from O'Reilly and present a short tutorial on a technology. This one contained chapters on

Chapter 1. Installation and Setup
Chapter 2. Introduction to Mapping
Chapter 3. Harnessing Hibernate
Chapter 4. Collections and Associations
Chapter 5. Richer Associations
Chapter 6. Persistent Enumerated Types
Chapter 7. Custom Value Types
Chapter 8. Criteria Queries
Chapter 9. A Look at HQL

By the time I'd worked by way through it I had a pretty good grasp of Hibernate and felt like I could use it in a project. The running example is complex enough to be interesting without being overwhelming and the book is short (171 pages) so you can move through it pretty quickly. If you have occasion to use persistent objects in Java then Hibernate seems like a good tool and this book will get you going.