Introducing Hibernate
Hibernate, by definition, is an ORM solution for Java. Hibernate is an open source, full-fledged persistence framework. It is used to map plain old Java objects (POJOs) to the tables of a relational database and vice versa. Hibernate is used to persist application data into a data layer. Hibernate implements Java Persistence API (JPA), which is a set of standards that has been prescribed for any persistence implementation and that needs to be met in order to get certified as a Java persistent API implementation.
Hibernate sits between Java objects in memory and the relational database server to handle the persistence of objects based on O/R mapping. Hibernate supports almost all relational database engines such as the HSQL ...
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