Getting Started with Hibernate 3

Where to Go Next

There are a number of ways you can dig deeper into the capabilities of Hibernate and other ways it can be used. Here are some good choices; pick the ones that best suit your needs, learning style, and time frame.

Online Manuals

All of the tools mentioned in this PDF have good online documentation. If you have a basic idea of how to use the package, the online reference can give you the details you need to accomplish specific tasks. Look for the Documentation links prominently featured on each package’s home page.

Books

A more complete and in-depth discussion of Hibernate can be found in Hibernate in Action by Christian Bauer and Gavin King (Manning Publications), the authors of Hibernate itself.

The examples in this PDF are continued and elaborated with discussion of more Hibernate features in Hibernate: A Developer’s Notebook by James Elliott (O'Reilly). If you pick up the Notebook, you'll want to jump to Chapter 4 to continue where this PDF leaves off. Also note that if you are continuing with your example directories, and you changed your hibernate.properties to talk to MySQL, you may want to switch it back to HSQLDB before proceeding, since the rest of the examples are written with that in mind. The text will assume you’re still working with HSQLDB and will show you how to check your progress in that context. You will also see slight differences in the schema, as databases all have slightly different column types and features. Apart from these minor details, it really ...