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3. Building a Simple Application

Joseph B. Ottinger1  , Jeff Linwood2 and Dave Minter3
(1)
Youngsville, NC, USA
(2)
Austin, TX, USA
(3)
London, UK
 
In this chapter, we’re going to create the shell of an application, which will allow us to demonstrate a number of concepts common for systems that use Hibernate. We’ll be covering the following:
  • Object model design, including relationships between objects

  • Operations that view and modify persisted data (inserts, reads, updates, and deletes)

Ordinarily, we’d use a service layer to encapsulate some operations, and in fact we will be adding ...

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