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  • Paperback: 190 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. (10 May 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0596006969
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596006969
  • Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 18 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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About the new Developer's Notebook Series from O'Reilly:

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James Elliott a senior software engineer at Berbee, with over ten years professional experience as a systems developer. He started designing with objects well before work environments made it convenient, and has a passion for building high-quality Java tools and frameworks to simplify the tasks of other developers.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great first book on Hibernate, 6 Jul 2004
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I was extremely impressed with this little book on Hibernate. First, the author took the trouble to give complete download and setup instructions for the various software packages, something which is rarely done well.

This is particularly important for the HSQLDB database, which is the DB used by this book (and another which I'm reading). This is an excellent open-source DB which is indifferently documented. Not that difficult if you show it's little tricks as Author Elliot has done.

Apart from that the downloadable examples basically work without fiddling (another relative rarity) with one or two exceptions. I used the downloaded code. The code in Chapter 4 wouldn't compile in Eclipse until I deleted the QueryTest2.java file (this makes sense in terms of the chronology of the chapter). I later recopied QueryTest2.java into the Eclipse workspace after the codegen and schema were built.

The second hiccup was in chapter 5, where the mapping file for the Album file used what appears to be an undocumented Hibernate reserved word named POSITION. Once I renamed POSITION to something else the schema operation ran well.

I hope to see more of these books. Small and superbly executed books about a specific tool or closely-related group of tools with a laser-sharp editorial vision of what to include (everything necessary) and no more. The price is right as well.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Too wordy., 15 Sep 2007
This book is irritatingly way too long-winded on HSQLDB and Ant, which are not part of Hibernate but have been used in the examples. The author then squeezes major aspects of Hibernate into short examples, and in several places glosses over the details, referring the reader to the Hibernate documentation. I would have found it more helpful to have more information on Hibernate and less on HSQLDB and Ant.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Almost the ideal programming book ... but only almost., 8 Nov 2008
Although I've been a commercial programmer for nearly 10 years, I'm still fairly new to Java and spend most of my time writing web-based, database-driven applications.

In my experience, using JDBC and writing SQL queries is a pain in the backside (if I have to write SQL queries in my code, I'd write the app in Perl and use the DBI!) and, for my current purposes, EJB3.0 is just too heavyweight. I'd heard a lot about Hibernate but, as is so often the case with open-source projects, the online documentation ranges from adequate to awful.

O'Reilly's developer's guides have been a bit hit and miss (the Spring and Mono guides are dreadful, in my opinion) but they've hit the mark with this one - if you're up against a deadline it gets straight down to telling you things you actually need to know to make your applications work, ranging from storing and retrieving values up to complicated query criteria and custom types - all in less than 200 pages. The style is straightforward enough that I was able to convert a 'standard' JDBC-driven application to use Hibernate within a few hours with no more than the usual amount of headscratching.

The only gripes I have are:

- The text appears to deal with Hibernate 2.x - Hibernate 3.x has been out in the wild for a while and some of the methods described in the book are now deprecated. Easily fixed by looking at the online docs (an official errata/update list may exist - I've not looked for it)
- Chapter 1 is a waste of space - a lot of people use their favourite IDE to avoid the XML Hell that comes with configuring Ant, and since it's not a part of Hibernate it doesn't really belong in the book (same applies to HSQLDB)

That said, this is a useful desktop reference for those who want to get up to speed quickly (without going straight to the heavyweight tomes by King and Bauer) or just need a handy reference book.
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