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Hibernate in Action (In Action series)
by Christian Bauer, Gavin King
from Manning Publications

Features:

• Illustrated

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Concise and well written.
  A great book for getting going with Hibernate quickly.
  Some parts are heavy going because it is packed with info. This pays off because there is little or no padding/rubbish.

• Try their newer book instead
  This book is for Hibernate 2. Hibernate 3 is covered by the same authors in Java Persistence with Hibernate

• Useful narrative
  I found this book useful and readable, and it helped me develop my first (and second) Hibernate applications. It begins with a brief overview of the kinds of problems which ORM solutions need to address. It then introduces Hibernate along with a couple of examples, upon which subsequent chapters build. (Some reviewers have criticized the examples, but I thought they were useful, and I didn't have trouble following them) One thing you should be aware of: while this book is a good narrative, it's not as... more info

• Falls short of expectation
  With this book, we have the rare circumstance where the founder and principal developer of the technology has authored the material. Moreover, the back jacket promises that the text would build on a single example to show how to use Hibernate in practice.
  Sorry, dear reader. This book falls far, far short of its promise. Yes, you can download a single cogent example. But the authors make only loose reference to that example, choosing instead to offer dozens and dozens of snippets, out of context with... more info

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