PART I Hibernate in a Hurry Our first goal is to get up to speed with Hibernate as quickly as possible. Most of the chapters in this part are updated versions of content from Hibernate: A Developer’s Notebook (O’Reilly), reflecting the major changes that came about with Hibernate 3. The sample code now works with the latest versions of the tools we rely on to provide an easy yet realistic environment for working with Hibernate. There is also a new chapter covering the ability to use Java 5 annotations, rather than XML mapping files, to configure Hibernate mappings. Getting started and following along with the examples is even easier in Of course, with any this new version of the book because we’ve adopted Maven to help printed book about download many of the tools and libraries. As we hope you will see, active open source projects, things will get there’s