Hibernate Tutorial : Introduction

Hibernate is an open source lightweight, Object Relational Mapping framework to interact Java classes with databases. It implements the specifications of JPA as a persistence layer.

Benefits 

Following are the benefits of using hibernate:

• It is a lightweight framework which increases the efficiency of a project.
• It helps in the interaction of java model class with the table of a database.
• It maintains the first-level cache thus increasing the efficiency.
• It implements the specifications of JPA thus helps to avoid the use of database-specific language.
• It helps in writing queries both in native and hibernate query language.

Object Relational Mapping

Object Relational Mapping is a technique through which an object can interact with the database. 

The java code creates an object and the fields of this object get mapped with the column of the table in the database.

The different field of an object will be mapped with the different columns of a table. Internally this process is achieved with the help of JDBC (Java Database Connectivity).

Conclusion

In this tutorial, information is provided about the overview of Hibernate. In the next tutorial, the setup regarding hibernate will be elaborated.

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