Harnessing Hibernate

OK, so I  finally cracked and bought a real textbook on Hibernate, rather than trying to muddle my way through a mass of random online tutorials and Java debugger statements. And, even more excitingly, it came as a Kindle file. Marvellous.*

Harnessing Hibernate is the title, and so far it's been very useful. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone except a near-total Hibernate beginner: you'd want to know a bit of Java and roughly what Hibernate is trying to achieve, and preferably you'll have seen a bit of Hibernate code flying around, just to get your eye in, as it were.

It's a little out of date now: all the examples are built using Ant rather than Maven. But still, I can't really criticise that - I still have regular and ongoing battles with Maven, and the Ant stuff means that it's been dead easy for the authors to introduce small sections at a time, and slowly upgrade from feature to feature over the chapters.

Overall, I'm impressed so far - but we'll reserve the real judgement for when I try to bring Hibernate into my own projects!

* I don't own a Kindle (yet) but the Kindle app for Windows does what it says on the tin. Not too sure about trying to read books on an Android phone but sure, I'll give it a go some day. For now, screen reading is grand. And yet another reason why a second monitor is an essential development tool, not just a nice extra.