(a) Greetings to Hibernate4

Section I: Introduction to Hibernate

Official website: http://hibernate.org/

Hibernate is an open-source object-relational mapping framework that provides JDBC with a very lightweight object encapsulation that allows Java programmers to manipulate databases at will using object programming thinking.

Hibernate can be used in any JDBC application, either in Java client programs or in servlet/jsp Web applications, and most revolutionary of all, hibernate can replace CMP in the EE architecture of the EJB application. Complete the task of data holding.

Learning Focus:

ORM Framework, Object Relational mapping (Object/relation Mapping)

The latest version is already hibernate5, we learn hibernate4 here.

Core JAR Package:

Section II: HIBERNATE4 Version Hello World implementation

(a) Greetings to Hibernate4