Step 1. Introduction: Hibernate and Workshop

Hibernate

Hibernate and Kodo are two popular ORM solutions for Java applications. This tutorial provides step by step instructions for Hibernate applications but for minor differences, could also be used with Kodo. Hibernate provides data query and retrieval facilities that significantly reduce development time. Hibernate lets you develop persistent classes following object-oriented idiom - including association, inheritance, polymorphism, composition, and collections. Hibernate allows you to express queries in its own portable SQL extension (HQL), as well as in native SQL, or with an object-oriented Criteria and Example API.

Workshop

Workshop offers unparalleled support for the development of sophisticated web applications based on industry standards like JSF, EJB3, and JSP and popular frameworks like Spring, Hibernate, Struts and Tiles. Workshop includes sophisticated WYSIWYG editors and BEA's AppXRay technology, which provides a deep level of understanding of the web application as a whole, thereby providing unprecedented depth and capabilities in code completion, consistency checking with generated classes, configuration files or annotations, pre-build error checking, and validation that reaches all the levels of your application.

Workshop includes database management and O/R mapping tools, including updated Hibernate support.

• DbXplorer™ - Database explorer for all popular databases including Oracle, DB2, Sybase, SQL Server and MySQL
• DbXaminer™ - View Database Diagrams and SQL Editor
• Hibernate EJB3 Entity Manager, Hibernate Entities Editor
• HQL Editor, Hibernate Mapping Editor
• Add Hibernate support to existing projects
• AppXRay™ power for all the above - providing code completion, error checking and validation that extends to Hibernate related files and classes

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