Hibernate is a flexible framework that can be used in any Java application environment. In our excursus, we have showed how to develop a sample application that is geared toward a managed environment. In the last two sections of the chapter, we have compared the Hibernate framework with the JPA persistence standard, showing how the two technologies can be coupled in a single application.

In the next chapter, we will learn JBoss AS JMX infrastructure, which was the backbone of earlier releases of JBoss. Even if it's not the main kernel component anymore, the JMX API is still the glue around many JBoss AS services