Use of Hibernate with Java Persistence API

HibernateBefore learning about Persistence technologies, we need to understand what exactly Persistence is in computer science.

Persistence, in simple terms is the ability to retain data structures between various program executions. A perfect example of this would be a word processor saving undo history. In practice, this is achieved by storing the data in non- volatile storage such as a file system or a relational database or an object database.

The popularity of databases has increased manifold in the past few years. Java has become the preferred choice of developers for developing secure, flexible, and scalable database driven web applications. These web applications require objects to be associated with appropriate databases. Hibernate, along with other persistence technologies associate’s objects with the appropriate database in a simple, straight forward and natural way.

Hibernate is one such effort from the Java community to develop many object oriented solutions to data persistence. Any kind of Java persistence solution includes two main elements i.e. ORM (Object Relational Mapping) and OOM (Object Oriented Modeling).

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