Beginning Hibernate 6: Java Persistence from Beginner to Pro

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J. B. Ottinger et al.Beginning Hibernate 6https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7337-1_2

2. Integrating and Configuring Hibernate

Joseph B. Ottinger¹  , Jeff Linwood² and Dave Minter³

(1)

Youngsville, NC, USA

(2)

Austin, TX, USA

(3)

London, UK

 

Integrating Hibernate into a Java application is easy. The designers of Hibernate avoided some of the more common pitfalls and problems with the existing Java persistence solutions and created a clean but powerful architecture. In practice, this means that you do not have to run Hibernate inside any particular Java EE container or framework. As of Hibernate 6, Java 8 or later is required, thanks to the integration of the date ...