Hibernate: A Developer s Notebook shows you how to use Hibernate to automate persistence: you write natural Java objects and some simple configuration files, and Hibernate automates all the interaction between your objects and the database. You don t even need to know the database is there, and you can change from one database to another simply by changing a few statements in a configuration file. If you ve needed to add a database backend to your application, don t put it off. It s much more fun than it used to be, and Hibernate: A Developer s Notebook shows you why. -Hibernate: A Developer s Notebook shows you how to use Hibernate to automate persistence: you write natural Java objects and some simple configuration files, and Hibernate automates all the interaction between your objects and the database. You don t even need to know the database is there, and you can change from one database to another simply by changing a few statements in a configuration file. If you ve needed to add a database backend to your application, don t put it off. It s much more fun than it used to be, and Hibernate: A Developer s Notebook shows you why.