Chapter 4. Hibernate with Spring
While developing a real-world application using the Spring Framework, we often store and retrieve data to and from the relational database in the form of objects. These objects are non-scalar values that can't be directly stored and retrieved to and from the database, as only scalar values can be directly stored in the relational database, which is technically defined as impedance mismatch. In the previous section, we took a look at using JDBC in Spring applications.
Data persistence is the ability to preserve the state of an object so that it can regain the same state in the future. In this chapter, we will be focused on saving in-memory objects into the database using ORM tools that have wide support in Spring ...
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