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 write natural Java objects and some simple configuration files, and Hibernate automates all the interaction between your objects and the database. You don"t even need to know the database is there, and you can change from one database to another simply by changing a few statements in a configuration file. Hibernate: A Developer"s Notebook walks you through the ins and outs of using Hibernate, from installation and configuration, to complex associations and composite types. Two chapters explore ways to write sophisticated queries, which you can...