Chapter 1: Introduction to Mapping Objects to Relational Databases.

Chapter 2: Introduction to Hibernate.

Chapter 3: Hibernate Development Environment.

Chapter 4: Database Connecting and Schema Generation.

Chapter 5: Creating Persistent Classes.

Chapter 6: Working with Collections.

Chapter 7: Using Persistent Objects.

Chapter 8: Hibernate Query Language.

Chapter 9: Hibernate Caching.

Chapter 10: Hibernate Transactions and Locking.

Chapter 11: J2EE and Hibernate.

Chapter 12: Hibernate and DAO Design Pattern.

Chapter 13: Hibernate and XDoclet.

Chapter 14: Hibernate and Maven.

Chapter 15: Hibernate Extensions.

Chapter 16: Hibernate and Eclipse.

Chapter 17: Using Velocity, Struts, and Hibernate.

Chapter 18: Hibernate and AspectJ.

Appendix A: Hibernate Database Connectivity.

Appendix B: Getting Involved with Hibernate.

More Information on Open Source.

Index.