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Harnessing Hibernate - New from O'Reilly
A Step-by-Step Guide to Java Persistence
  
Sebastopol, CA--Java and databases make a powerful combination. Getting
the two sides to work together, however, takes some effort. For many Java
developers, it's the least pleasant part of their work. Even database
experts, who may enjoy fiddling with SQL, dread the tedious plumbing and
typographical spaghetti needed to put their SQL into a Java program. It
comes down to the plain fact that Java deals in objects while most
databases do not.  In the ongoing effort to automate the task, the
Hibernate persistence framework has emerged as a powerful contender:
programmers write natural Java objects and some simple configuration
files, and Hibernate automates all the interactions between the objects
and the database. "Harnessing Hibernate" (O'Reilly, US $39.99) by James
Elliott, Tim O'Brien, and Ryan Fowler introduces readers to this popular
framework.

James Elliott, who authored this book's predecessor, "Hibernate: A
Developer's Notebook" (O'Reilly, 2005), notes that Hibernate has changed
tremendously since his earlier book was published: "I continue to get
email from readers asking for help on adapting the book's detailed code
examples so they work with today's Hibernate. To help deal with that, I
wrote an updated "Getting Started with Hibernate 3" pdf, but people still
want to learn more about Hibernate, so we realized we needed to update and
expand the whole Notebook, which also gave me the opportunity to ask Ryan
and Tim to contribute chapters on working with interesting related
technologies."

More than a reference, "Harnessing Hibernate" starts with basic
configuration before moving on to demonstrate how to use Hibernate to
accomplish practical goals. "If you follow along with the examples--which
is easy--you'll have a working Hibernate-based program early in the book
and an understanding of how you got there, and how you can change things
to solve your own problems," says Elliott.

"I wanted to give people a solid starting point for learning Hibernate
that reflects what it's grown into, and add more information about a
handful of other projects--like  Spring--which dovetail with Hibernate,"
says Elliott. "We also adopted the Maven Ant tasks so that readers can
easily work with the particular tool versions tested in the examples,
which will help avoid the little inconsistencies that accumulate over time
whenever you write about a thriving open source community."

This book covers Hibernate's primary features, such as mapping from Java
classes to database tables and from Java data types to SQL data types, as
well as Hibernate's data query and retrieval facilities. "Harnessing
Hibernate" also shows how to:

* Perform object/relational mapping
* Work with persistent data from Java code
* Work with groups and relationships between objects
* Extend Hibernate's rich type support for your own needs
* Simplify query creation using criteria and examples
* Use the Hibernate Query Language (HQL) and understand how it differs
from SQL
* Use Hibernate in conjunction with Spring
* Use Hibernate in conjunction with other packages, such as the Stripes
web framework and the Eclipse IDE 

If you find using SQL to be a chore, "Harnessing Hibernate" offers you an
effective and painless method for working with the information you store
in your applications.

For more information about the book, including table of contents, index,
author bio, and samples, see:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517724/

Harnessing Hibernate
James Elliott, Tim O'Brien, and Ryan Fowler
ISBN: 978-0-596-51772-4, 363 pages, US $39.99
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