Praise for the First Edition
"2005 Best Java Book!"
-Java Developer's Journal
Hibernate In Action
has to be considered the definitive tome on Hibernate. As
the authors are intimately involved with the project, the insight on Hibernate
that they provide can't be easily duplicated.
-JavaRanch.com
"Not only gets you up to speed with Hibernate and its features ...It also intro-
duces you to the right way of developing and tuning an industrial-quality Hiber-
nate application. ...albeit very technical, it reads astonishingly
easy ...unfortunately very rare nowadays ...[an] excellent piece of work... "
-JavaLobby.com
"The first and only full tutorial, reference, and authoritative guide, and one of
the most anticipated books of the year for Hibernate users."
-Dr. Dobb's Journal
"... the book was beyond my expectations ...this book is the ultimate
solution."
-Javalobby.org, (s
econd review, fall 2005)
"... from none others than the lead developer and the lead documenter, this
book is a great introduction and reference documentation to using Hibernate.
It is organized in such a way that the concepts are explained in progressive
order from very simple to more complex, and the authors take good care of
explaining every detail with good examples. ...The book not only gets you up
to speed with Hibernate and its features (which the documentation does quite
well). It also introduces you to the right way of developing and tuning an indus-
trial-quality Hibernate application."
-Slashdot.org
"Strongly recommended, because a contemporary and state-of-the-art topic is
very well explained, and especially, because the voices come literally from the
horses' mouths."
-C Vu, the Journal of the ACCU
"The ultimate guide to the Hibernate open source project. It provides in-depth
information on architecture of Hibernate, configuring Hibernate and develop-
ment using Hibernate...It also explains essential concepts like, object/rela-
tional mapping (
), persistence, caching, queries and describes how they
ORM
are taken care with respect to Hibernate...written by the creators of Hibernate
and they have made best effort to introduce and leverage Hibernate. I recom-
mend this book to everyone who is interested in getting familiar with
Hibernate."
-JavaReference.com
"Well worth the cost ...While the on-line documentation is good, (Mr. Bauer,
one of the authors is in charge of the on-line documentation) the book is bet-
ter. It begins with a description of what you are trying to do (often left out in
computer books) and leads you on in a consistent manner through the entire
Hibernate system. Excellent Book!"
-Books-on-Line
"A compact (408 pages), focused, no nonsense read and an essential resource
for anyone venturing into the
landscape. The first three chapters of this
ORM
book alone are indispensable for developers that want to quickly build an
application leveraging Hibernate, but more importantly really want to under-
stand Hibernate concepts, framework, methodology and the reasons that
shaped the framework design. The remaining chapters continue the compre-
hensive overview of Hibernate that include how to map to and persist objects,
inheritance, transactions, concurrency, caching, retrieving objects efficiently
using
, configuring Hibernate for managed and unmanaged environ-
HQL
ments, and the Hibernate Toolset that can be leveraged for several different
development scenarios."
-Columbia Java Users Group
"The authors show their knowledge of relational databases and the paradigm
of mapping this world with the object-oriented world of Java. This is why the
book is so good at explaining Hibernate in the context of solving or providing
a solution to the very complex problem of object/relational mapping."
-Denver JUG
Java Persistence
with Hibernate
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