Praise for the First Edition
"2005 Best Java Book!"
—Java Developer's Journal
Hibernate In Action has to be considered the definitive tome on Hibernate. As the authors are intimately involved with the project, the insight on Hibernate that they provide can't be easily duplicated.
"Not only gets you up to speed with Hibernate and its features... It also introduces you to the right way of developing and tuning an industrial-quality Hibernate application....albeit very technical, it reads astonishingly easy...unfortunately very rare nowadays...[an] excellent piece of work...
"The first and only full tutorial, reference, and authoritative guide, and one of the most anticipated books of the year for Hibernate users."
—Dr. Dobb's Journal
...the book was beyond my expectations...this book is the ultimate solution."
—Javalobby.org, (second review, fall 2005)
...from none others than the lead developer and the lead documenter, this book is a great introduction and reference documentation to using Hibernate. It is organized in such a way that the concepts are explained in progressive order from very simple to more complex, and the authors take good care of explaining every detail with good examples.... The book not only gets you up to speed with Hibernate and its features (which the documentation does quite well). It also introduces you to the right way of developing and tuning an industrial-quality Hibernate application."
—Slashdot.org
"Strongly recommended, because a contemporary and state-of-the-art topic is very well explained, and especially, because the voices come literally from the horses' mouths."
—C Vu, the Journal of the ACCU
"The ultimate guide to the Hibernate open source project. It provides in-depth information on architecture of Hibernate, configuring Hibernate and development using Hibernate... It also explains essential concepts like, object/relational mapping (ORM), persistence, caching, queries and describes how they are taken care with respect to Hibernate... written by the creators of Hibernate and they have made best effort to introduce and leverage Hibernate. I recommend this book to everyone who is interested in getting familiar with Hibernate."
"Well worth the cost... While the on-line documentation is good, (Mr. Bauer, one of the authors is in charge of the on-line documentation) the book is better. It begins with a description of what you are trying to do (often left out in computer books) and leads you on in a consistent manner through the entire Hibernate system. Excellent Book!"
—Books-on-Line
"A compact (408 pages), focused, no nonsense read and an essential resource for anyone venturing into the ORM landscape. The first three chapters of this book alone are indispensable for developers that want to quickly build an application leveraging Hibernate, but more importantly really want to understand Hibernate concepts, framework, methodology and the reasons that shaped the framework design. The remaining chapters continue the comprehensive overview of Hibernate that include how to map to and persist objects, inheritance, transactions, concurrency, caching, retrieving objects efficiently using HQL, configuring Hibernate for managed and unmanaged environments, and the Hibernate Toolset that can be leveraged for several different development scenarios."
—Columbia Java Users Group
"The authors show their knowledge of relational databases and the paradigm of mapping this world with the object-oriented world of Java. This is why the book is so good at explaining Hibernate in the context of solving or providing a solution to the very complex problem of object/relational mapping."
—Denver JUG