ORM - Hibernate
ORM - Hibernate Developed in 2001 by Gavin King, Hibernate was introduced as a groundbreaking alternative to the EJB2-style entity bean approach. Hibernate is java based ORM tool that provides framework for mapping application domain objects to the relational database tables and vice versa, also provides data query and recovery facilities. By mapping Java objects to database tables, it streamlines data persistence and retrieval without the need for complex SQL queries. Features: Automatic Transaction Management and Caching What is JPA? Java Persistence API (JPA) is a Java specification that provides specific functionality and is a standard for ORM tools. javax.persistence package contains the JPA classes and interfaces. Hibernate is an implementation of JPA guidelines. Hibernate is described in org.hibernate package. Hibernate is an Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) tool that is used to save the Java objects in the relational database system. Hibernate Lifecycle Transient State - When in...