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Wednesday 24 September 2014

Hibernate Introduction



  • Hibernate is an ORM (Object Relational Mapping) Tool
  • Hibernate is Open Source
  • Hibernate is used to persist data to Databases
  • Hibernate was started in 2001 by Gavin King
  • ORM is a programming method for mapping the objects to the relational model where entities/classes are mapped to tables,instances are mapped to rows and attributes of instances are mapped to columns of table.
  • Using Hibernate we can save data from Java Applications to Databases. This acts a medium between Java and Database.