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What’s Hibernate September 15, 2007

Posted by essamabdelaziz in Hibernate.
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Hibernate is an open source object/relational mapping tool for Java.

 Hibernate not only takes care of the mapping from Java classes to database tables (and from Java data types to SQL data types), but also provides data query and retrieval facilities and can significantly reduce development time otherwise spent with manual data handling in SQL and JDBC.

Hibernates goal is to relieve the developer from 95 percent of common data persistence related programming tasks.

The Hibernate Query Language, designed as a “minimal” object-oriented extension to SQL, provides an elegant bridge between the object and relational worlds. Hibernate also allows you to express queries using native SQL or Java-based Criteria and Example queries. Hibernate is now the most popular object/relational

 Hibernates goal is to relieve the developer from 95 percent of common data persistence related programming tasks.

Hibernate is Free Software. The LGPL license is sufficiently flexible to allow the use of Hibernate in both open source and commercial projects (see the LicenseFAQ for details). Hibernate is available for download at http://www.hibernate.org/.