To use Hibernate in your Java application, you need to add the Hibernate dependencies to your project, either using Maven, Gradle, or manually downloading the JAR files. You also need to configure ...

In this excerpt from Manning Publications' Hibernate in Action, authors Christian Bauer and Gavin King introduce Hibernate's core APIs and explain its basic configuration.

Actually, the Configuration class is just a very simple facade for the more modern, much more powerful—but more complex—API defined in the package org.hibernate.boot. This API is useful if you have ...

By default caching is disabled in hibernate-memcached, so our first step is to enable Hibernate’s second-level cache. We’ll also need to configure Memcached as a caching implementation for ...