Title: very good book. title a bit off
Product review: This is a really good buy and I would still buy it. So why give it two stars. Because I am anal. I really like to do stuff "in action" and this book doesn't provide source code that you can just go and execute. They refer you to the caveatemptor application on the web which doesn't have any of the examples that demonstrate bad practices. I pretty much had to do a lot of trial and error setting up my database and then writing the app(that demonstrated a bad practice) from the text in the book to really gain that understanding of the bad practices.This book is great for people who already understand hibernate and probably don't need to try those examples, but this was my first time using any ORM. I would kill for the source code demonstrating every example in this book.Keep in mind I still got alot out of this book. Just required more effort on my part then alot of books that come with source code.
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