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Location: Zurich, Switzerland
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Biography:
I found Hibernate while I was evaluating data access solutions for an upcoming Java project, back in early 2002 when Hibernate was virtually unknown. It was the only software that made it through my small evaluation testcase. I realized that other people would probably have the same problem and started contributing more and more to the project Gavin King founded. Hibernate grew at a very impressi… Read moreI found Hibernate while I was evaluating data access solutions for an upcoming Java project, back in early 2002 when Hibernate was virtually unknown. It was the only software that made it through my small evaluation testcase. I realized that other people would probably have the same problem and started contributing more and more to the project Gavin King founded.
Hibernate grew at a very impressive and sometimes overwhelming rate. We wrote the book Hibernate in Action, for users of Hibernate and also to nail down core Hibernate concepts in a formal way.
Two years later, many of these ideas have made it into the Java Persistence specification, part of the Java EE 5.0 and EJB 3.0 industry standards. The new book we wrote, Java Persistence with Hibernate, describes how Hibernate changed during that time, and what the latest version can do.
I've been working for 10 years on mostly Internet-related applications, and over time focused more and more on the data management part of systems. I currently work for Red Hat as a consultant, trainer, and product manager for Hibernate and JBoss Seam.
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
RESTful web services is one of the (very) few books I read from start to finish without browsing the ToC for "more interesting" chapters than the one I was currently reading. From a writers perspective, this book is executed flawlessly: great organization of content, good segues that keep the flow, fun to read, etc.
The title, however, should be "HTTP used correctly". Of course inventing a new term and world is more fun for everybody involved :) But this is what you will find in this book: An accurate description of the most popular application protocol that runs on top of the most widely-used transport protocol (TCP) on your internets. And enough information to show the… Read more
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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
This book has been essential in my work as a consultant and developer in the database application field. I use it whenever I need a short, easy to read, and no-nonsense summary of data management fundamentals. This book explains "how it should be", "how it often is", and "what you can do about it", making it a really perfect recommendation in many situations.
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