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.