Pro Spring 5: An In-Depth Guide to the Spring Framework and Its Tools

© Iuliana Cosmina, Rob Harrop, Chris Schaefer, and Clarence Ho 2017

Iuliana Cosmina, Rob Harrop, Chris Schaefer and Clarence HoPro Spring 5https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2808-1_7

7. Using Hibernate in Spring

Iuliana Cosmina¹ , Rob Harrop², Chris Schaefer³ and Clarence Ho⁴

(1)

Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania

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Reddish, UK

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Venice, Florida, USA

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Hong Kong, China

 

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 called Hibernate.

If you have experience developing data access applications using EJB entity beans (prior to EJB 3.0), you may ...