Quick Hibernate
In this section, we take a glance at a typical Hibernate application and its components. Hibernate is designed to work in a standalone application as well as a Java Enterprise application, such as a Web or EJB application. All topics discussed here are covered in detail throughout this book.
The standalone version of a Hibernate application is comprised of the components that are shown in the following figure:
We, the application developers, create the components that are depicted by the white boxes, namely the data access classes, entity classes, and configuration and mapping. Everything else is provided in form of a JAR or a runtime ...
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