Learn Hibernate

Hibernate is a high-performance ObjectRelational persistence and query service which is licensed under the open source GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) and is free to download. Hibernate not only takes care of the mapping from Java classes to database tables (and from Java data types to SQL data types), but also provides data query and retrieval facilities. Learn Hibernate will teach you how to use Hibernate to develop your database based web applications in simple and easy steps

Learn Hibernate is designed for Java programmers with a need to understand the Hibernate framework and API. After completing this tutorial you will find yourself at a moderate level of expertise in using Hibernate from where you can take yourself to next levels