Preface

There are multiple databases available to store our valuable data. When we go for relational data structures, we can perform any operation on the data using queries on the interface provided by the database vendor or using a third party tool. The syntax for all databases is almost similar, but some databases follow their own syntax and semantics of writing a query. Nowadays, real-world applications require a quick development cycle, database-independent query execution, and a generic code that can be supported by multiple databases. It's a very hard and time-consuming task for a software developer to fulfill this set of requirements.

Hibernate is an ORM (Object Relational Mapping) tool that helps us by making our development process faster and making the software development independent of the database; so, we can easily change a database vendor without worrying about the changes required in code. Therefore, whether you are developing a standalone Java application or a server-side Java Enterprise application, you could use hibernate to make your code database-independent.

Java Hibernate Cookbook will help you to learn hibernate from the basics to an advanced level. In this book, we will try to create simple and short recipes to understand hibernate step by step.