Mastering Hibernate

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "The @Any and @ManyToAny annotations are only available in Hibernate."

A block of code is set as follows:

@Entity
public class Person {
@Id
@GeneratedValue
private long id;
private String firstname;
private String lastname;
private String ssn;
private Date birthdate;
// getters and setters
}

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are ...