Java Persistence
with Hibernate
REVISED EDITION OF
HIBERNATE IN ACTION
CHRISTIAN BAUER
AND GAVIN KING
MANNING
Greenwich
(74° w. long.)
Who should read this book?
Readers of this book should have basic knowledge of object-oriented software
development and should have used this knowledge in practice. To understand the
application examples, you should be familiar with the Java programming language
and the Unified Modeling Language.
Our primary target audience consists of Java developers who work with SQLbased
database systems. We’ll show you how to substantially increase your productivity
by leveraging ORM.
If you’re a database developer, the book can be part of your introduction to
object-oriented software development.
If you’re a database administrator, you’ll be interested in how ORM affects performance
and how you can tune the performance of the SQL database-management
system and persistence layer to achieve performance targets. Because data access is the bottleneck in most Java applications, this book pays close attention to
performance issues. Many DBAs are understandably nervous about entrusting performance
to tool-generated SQL code; we seek to allay those fears and also to
highlight cases where applications shouldn’t use tool-managed data access. You
may be relieved to discover that we don’t claim that ORM is the best solution to
every problem.
