What is Hibernate and Features

    What is Hibernate and Features

 

Hibernate ORM (Hibernate in short) is an object-relational mapping tool for the Java programming language. It provides a framework for mapping an object-oriented domain model to a relational database. Hibernate handles object-relational impedance mismatch problems by replacing direct, persistent database accesses with high-level object handling functions.

Hibernate is free software that is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1.

Hibernate's primary feature is mapping from Java classes to database tables, and mapping from Java data types to SQL data types. Hibernate also provides data query and retrieval facilities. It generates SQL calls and relieves the developer from the manual handling and object conversion of the result set.

 Hibernate Features

• Hibernate provides Object/Relational mappings. ...
• It provides different object oriented query languages. ...
• It provide transparent persistence without byte code processing.
• It introduces automatic Dirty Checking concept.
• It supports Detached object concept.
• It supports tough concept of composite keys.