Lot's of sizzle but short on beef

My primary frustration with the book is that it does not deliver what it promises. I am specifically referring to the book's unfounded assertion that it is explaining how to *automatically* generate POJOs, DAOs, Hibernate XML configuration files, and/or Database Schema's.

Because on my consulting job I use iBatis and their marvelous ABATOR CRUD generator, the bar is set high as far as I'm concerned when I look for corresponding ease of use in Hibernate. The authors crow about the automatic code generation features of Hibernate but never actually explain how to do it beyond generalities that cannot be acted on.

Pro Hibernate 3, which strikes me on some levels as a glorified marketing brochure for Hibernate, is written by two authors whose only previous book is listed on the back cover as being a co-authored book on "Building Portals with the Java Portlet API", and a book by one author called "Pro Struts Applications". That does not seem like a terribly great resume for authors of a book on Hibernate.

I prefer and recommend instead of this book, the book, "Hibernate Quickly" by Peak and Heudecker (published by Manning).

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