C H A P T E R 9
Using Hibernate in Spring
In the previous chapter, you saw how to use JDBC in Spring applications. However, even though Spring goes a long way toward simplifying JDBC development, you still have a lot of code to write.
In this chapter, we cover one of the object-relational mapping (ORM) libraries that has wide support in Spring—Hibernate.
If you have experience developing data access applications using EJB entity beans (prior to EJB 3.0), you may remember the painful process. Tedious configuration of mappings, transaction demarcation, and much boilerplate code in each bean to manage its life cycle greatly reduced the productivity when developing enterprise Java applications.
Just like Spring was developed to embrace POJO base ...
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