Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook

by James Elliott

Book Overview

Do you enjoy writing software, except for the database code? Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook is for you. Database experts may enjoy fiddling with SQL, but you don't have to--the rest of the application is the fun part. And even database experts dread the tedious plumbing and typographical spaghetti needed to put their SQL into a Java program. Hibernate: A Developers Notebook shows you how to use Hibernate to automate persistence: you...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0596006969
• ISBN13: 9780596006969
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Terse, complete walkthrough for O/R experts

At around 150 pages this is not a 'for dummies' book. It's a quick walkthrough of the essential features of Hibernate for those that already understand the basic principles of O/R mapping layers. It starts with installation, then goes quickly into the code in a what/how format. What do I want to do. How is that done. Over and over until all of the essential features of Hibernate are covered. I like the voicing of the book, which is to treat the reader with respect. I like that there are not a lot of screenshots. And I particularly like the brief but thorough writing style. I recommend this book to anyone familiar with O/R mapping layers but who needs an introduction to Hibernate.

Perfect for starting out

As an experienced Java programmer, it's refreshing to find a book on a new technology that focuses on the technology and not my Java skills. This book gets a programmer up and running in minutes. I went through the first half of the book (doing all the examples) in about 90 minutes. It'll give you a full Hibernate installation and a good idea of whether or not you need to invest more time in Hibernate.I co-authored the Java Swing title with Jim Elliott and knew I would enjoy this book. Even so, I'm impressed with its concise nature and I applaud O'Reilly for putting the right price tag on it. It's not the last book you'll ever buy on Hibernate, but it should definitely be your first.

The BEST first book on Hibernate

Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook is the first in the new Developer's Notebook series from O'Reilly. The Developer's Notebook series is a new line of books from O'Reilly that are concise, lab-style guides that have plenty of examples and emphasize practice over theory. For being the first one, O'Reilly has hit a home run with this book.Hibernate is a lightweight, high performance object/relational persistence and query service for Java. Hibernate allows you to work easily and efficiently with information from a relational database in the form of natural Java objects following common Java idiom - including association, inheritance, polymorphism, composition and the Java collections frameworkWritten by James Elliott, Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook is an excellent must-own book for anyone interesting in learning more about Hibernate. James does a great job in explaining the topic at hand in a clear and concise manner. All the concepts are explained via examples, which make it easy to follow and learn.Staring with installation and the setup of your development environment, the book walks you through examples where you build on a small application as you progress through the book learning the subtleties and nuances of Hibernate. This book is extremely readable and is small enough to read cover to cover in a day. My pattern for reading technical books involves reading (or skimming) the book cover to cover before doing a deep dive and working through all the code examples. I found the examples easy to follow and they did a great job in building on the concepts of Hibernate.I know that Hibernate founder Gavin King and Christian Bauer, a member of the core Hibernate developer team have just finished their new book Hibernate in Action due to ship in August 2004. I am really looking forward to that book and have pre-ordered that book. Having said that, I still highly recommend this O'Reilly book.I had read a couple of articles on Hibernate and had played with some simple examples but this book gave me all the knowledge and tools to start using Hibernate in a real application. This is a really well written, concise guide to Hibernate and well worth the purchase price. I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn more about Hibernate and is a great first Hibernate book.

A great beginning!

Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook is a great book. While the book does not cover O/R Mapping or Hibernate from ALL angles, but how could it in less than 200 pages? I bought this book hoping to get my feet wet so that I could start working with Hibernate right away and work my way into the rest. That is exactly what this book provides. The examples in the book are easy to understand, evolve well over the course of the book, and teach useful tips such as configuring Ant to work with Hibernate and how to utilize the mapping techniques. What's more is the author's style is easy to follow and neither to wordy nor too watered down. The book has a good conversational style -- as the title implies developer to developer. Most importantly of all, this book is not intimidating. Instead of wading through 100 pages of introduction, this book gets after the business of learning Hibernate right away! Many technology books try to be everything to everyone and I find myself bored before I get to the meat of the book. That's not a problem with this book.If I had one to pick on small issue, I would like to have seen the core topics (especially collection mapping techniques) covered in more detail and less time spent on topics like custom types. As I pointed out earlier, my goal was to get a good basis to start working and cover the advanced topics later; Custom types are not something I am ready to "jump" into right away.

Great Introduction to Hibernate O/R Technology

I am using hibernate for project and was in need of a good book about the subject. Since Hibernate in Action was not published yet, this little book came in handy. It is a great reference source and you will be able to get started with no fuss using this book. All the fluff has been trimmed out and you will certainly get your money's worth. Although the book has less than 200 pages, it is packed witht the essentials to get you running quickly. If you have been pondering about an O/R technology, this book will help you make up your mind. All the major topics (from hibernate's ref book) are covered including 1) setup 2) code gen 3)associations/relations augmented 4)query & criteria 5)Enum.This book is an excellent companion to the online Hibernate's refernence materials.