Using Hibernate with Java Persistence API

Java has become the preferred choice of developers for the development towards web applications secure databases, flexible and scalable. These web applications require objects to be associated with appropriate databases. Hibernate and other persistence technology objects associated with the appropriate database of simple shape, direct and natural.

Any kind of Java persistence solution includes two main elements ie ORM (Object Relational Mapping) and OOM (Object Oriented Modeling).


Hibernate has become immensely popular among the developer community as it is a powerful, high-performance open source free object - relational mapping persistence Java package that makes it easier to work with relational databases for Java applications.

In addition to Hibernate, other popular open source Java technologies include JDBC, decreases, JDO, Top Link and CMP entity beans. These technologies provide a mechanism for object-relational mapping standard.

Application programming based on Java interface is the latest version of Java Data Objects Technology (JDO), which was previously the persistent technology used by developers. JPA is the latest standard Java Specification for Java Enterprise applications. The Java API is a Java programming language framework that allows developers to manage relational data in Java Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition. Java API origin in the work of JSR 220 expert group.

The Java API was developed after shooting the best ideas from other popular technologies like Top link, JDO, Hibernate, etc. Put simply, Java Persistence API is an API object for Plain Old Java object / relational mapping and supports a rich SQL-like query language for both static and dynamic queries.

Suppliers involved in application development have found that the use of Hibernate technology with Java Persistence API allows to build flexible Web-driven database applications that are highly scalable and involve complex business processes.