Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook: A Developer's Notebook

This book belongs to O'Reilly new series "developer notebook". I am not sure I really like this new artificial format, that this book tries to adhere to. "How do I do that", and similar named sub-titles make the book appear the same regardless where you open it! Lack of good diagrams (it has a couple, but that's it) with database relationships, class relationships, etc. make this book hard, if not impossible, to use as a reference.Finally, I found that querying was not adequately explained. How do you query a join based relationship?Overall, I think the book does provide a decent introduction to Hibernate. I give it four stars, but I doubt I will ever buy another "Developer Notebook" from O'Reilly again.

In its day, this must have been a useful text. It certainly served as a good introduction to what Hibernate is and does. The examples in this book use Ant 1.5 and Hibernate 2.x. If you still use Ant, you're probably using 1.8.x. Hibernate 4.1.1 has been released as of this writing. I enjoyed the challenge of migrating the examples from Ant 1.5 to Maven 3.0, and hunting down replacements for Hibernate idioms, methods, and fields that were deprecated in version 3.x and removed in 4.x. Take the time to do this, and you'll still get plenty of value out of this book. If you're not interested in doing homework, you're better off looking for a more recent publication date. Also, while this book reads nicely front-to-back, it is difficult to use as a reference due to headers that say meaningless things like, 'How do I do that?' over and over instead of meaningful things like, 'How to generate schema".

If you are familiar with ant, database and sql basics, and of course well versed in Java ,this book is a good way to get your feet wet with Hibernate without a lot of ceremony. At the end of the book you certainly won't be a Hibernate expert but at least you will know enough to start playing with it and decide if you want to go farther. Writing style is concise but clear enough, and gets a little confusing only in the two central chapters on richer associations and enumerated types. Overall I like the dev notebook style, but I think that 50 pages more used for more clarity and examples would have made it perfect.

Once you learn JDBC basics, I'd strongly recommend you learn Hibernate! The Database example gets progressively more complex; it gave me my first intro to how powerful Ant can be in doing repetitive tasks like compile build run. And his example take you all the way thru inserting and updating multiple tables using Hibernate to generate most of your code. Wow! This book doesn't pretend to be a reference, but instead a serious of examples to give a developer a solid intro to Hibernate and I think it does that great!

This book provides a great intro to Hibernate. The book is setup as a step-by-step walkthrough of Hibernates features and functionality. The author starts from the installation process, and walks you through everything you need to know, example by example. This book allowed me to get a working knowledge of Hibernate very quickly. Highly recommend.

This is a great book to learn Hibernate. The only thing I have to complain is that the author sometimes wants the examples to explain what he is trying to do rather than explain it in words. Thats the reason for the 4 *, but otherwise a very helpful, concise book if you want to learn one the leading persistence frameworks available today.

i think it is an ok book,certainly it does give u a start, but it is not for u if u want a comprehensive book.The content is written in a very understandable fashion.but lot of the content he picked didnt make me feel was worth mentioning.

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.

Das Buch ist geeignet für einen schnellen Einstieg. Wenn man sich aber richtig mit der Sache Hibernate auseinandersetzen möchte ist das Buch nicht geeignet.