Thanks to Reza for running the Connecticut Java Users Group first ever coding lab. Attendees got a taste of Hibernate development using either Netbeans or Eclipse.

Reza (center)Êwith the winners of the raffles.

Abstract

The Java Persistence API (JPA) aims to be the de-facto standard for ORM based persistence. Hibernate 3 is one of the earliest and most popular ORM tools implementing the JPA standard. This session is a hands-on introduction to JPA using Hibernate 3.

During the course of this session, we will configure Hibernate 3 from the ground up to work with JPA in a standalone application, solve a realistic persistence problem step-by-step and explore some of the key features of JPA along the way. We will explore basic annotation-driven mapping, generating keys, mapping relations, performing basic persistence operations and forming complex queries using the Java Persistence Query Language (JPQL).

You are encouraged, but not required to bring your laptop and code along throughout the session.

• Java SE 5 or higher (http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp)
• Hibernate (http://www.hibernate.org/)
• HSQLDB (http://www.hsqldb.org)
• Netbeans or Eclipse

Speaker

Reza Rahman is an architect at Tripod Technologies, an IT solutions company focusing on Java EE in the Baltimore-NYC corridor.

Reza has been working with Java EE since its inception in the mid-nineties. He has developed enterprise systems in the publishing, financial, telecommunications and manufacturing industries. Reza coordinates the Philadelphia JBoss User Group. He is the co-author of "EJB 3 in Action" from Manning Publishing.