Working with object-oriented software and a relational database can be cumbersome and time consuming
in todays enterprise environments. Hibernate is an object/relational mapper for the Java environment.
The term of object/relational mapping (ORM) refers to the technique of mapping a data
representation from an object model to a relational, SQL-based structure. Hibernate not only takes
care of the mapping from Java classes to database tables, 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
