Doesn't cover standard way of working with Hibernate

After the introduction, the book starts by explaining how to write Hibernate mapping files and use a Hibernate specific ANT task to generate Java source.

It the next chapter, the book explains how to generate Hibernate XML mapping files from XDoclet tags in the Java code.

The third chapter explains how to generate both the mapping files and Java source from a DB schema by using a tool called Middlegen.

I think a better approach would have been to have a chapter explaining how to develop everything from scratch (Java source and XML mapping files), then move on to tools that make your job easier by generating the schema, mapping files and/or the Java source.

Also, the book covers Hibernate 2. Hibernate 3 is already out, although, to be fair, there are no Hibernate 3 books in the market yet and most of the tools that integrate with Hibernate (XDoclet, Middlegen, etc) still generate Hibernate 2 artifacts, however, I expect this to change soon.

Other Reviews

• Nice reference
• Poorly organized, poorly written
• Crap - Regurgitation of the Hibernate.org Docs
• Doesn't cover standard way of working with Hibernate