Abstract
This talk covers by example the core of the Hibernate Object/Relational Mapping framework; that is, in a hands-on manner.

What does this mean?    Two things:

• Rather than spending 1.5 hours going from slide to slide, passively covering various aspects of the Hibernate framework, you'll be actively building a sample application, modeling, persisting, and querying information using Hibernate 3.1,
• Hibernate today is a mature and rich framework consisting of many features. Discussion of features outside of the Hibernate "Core" will be sacrificed for the sake of presenting Hibernate in an active, "by example" style.

No a-priori knowledge of Hibernate is assumed. We'll cover the basics of Hibernate v3.1, XML mappings, the Hibernate Query Language (HQL), the Criteria API, custom UserTypes, Components, and more! This talk does not discuss auxiliary topics such as the EJB 3 persistence API, Annotations, or integrating Hibernate in managed (J2EE) environments.

Bio
Eitan Suez is a programmer living and working in Austin, Texas. He has been programming in Java since 1995, and is a certified Java Programmer. Eitan is the author of an open source Java documentation system named ashkelon on sourceforge. Eitan speaks on the "No Fluff Just Stuff" series of programming Symposia on a variety of topics including Java Documentation Tools, XML Marshalling, Cascading Stylesheets, Naked Objects, and the State Machine Compiler. Eitan also helps organize and run the Austin Java Users Group. Eitan maintains a weblog on <http://java.net>.
 

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