Quick Refresh : Hibernate
What is ORM? ORM stands for Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) is a programming technique for converting data between relational databases and object-oriented programming languages. Why do you need ORM tools like hibernate? The main advantage of ORM like hibernate is that it shields developers from messy SQL. Apart from this, ORM provides the following benefits: Improved productivity High-level object-oriented API Less Java code to write No SQL to write Improved performance Sophisticated caching Lazy loading Eager loading Improved maintainability A lot less code to write Improved portability ORM framework generates database-specific SQL for you Hibernate is an Object-Relational Mapping(ORM) solution for JAVA. It is a powerful, high performance Object-Relational Persistence and Query service for any Java Application.Hibernate maps Java classes to database tables and from Java data types to SQL data types and relieve the developer from 95% of common d