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Title: Decent overview, but has a few shortcomings
Review: This book belongs to O'Reilly new series "developer notebook". I am not sure I really like this new artificial format, that this book tries to adhere to. "How do I do that", and similar named sub-titles make the book appear the same regardless where you open it! Lack of good diagrams (it has a couple, but that's it) with database relationships, class relationships, etc. make this book hard, if not impossible, to use as a reference.Finally, I found that querying was not adequately explained. How do you query a join based relationship?Overall, I think the book does provide a decent introduction to Hibernate. I give it four stars, but I doubt I will ever buy another "Developer Notebook" from O'Reilly again.
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