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An excellent introduction to Hibernate and overview of other Java technologies such as Spring, Maven, January 27, 2009

This book is by far the best one for Hibernate. It has two sections, section 1 is an update version of "Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook" using Ant-Maven tasks to simply installation and using HSQLDB. It covers the Introductory and Intermediate ground as far as Hibernate goes including XML configuration, Hibernate tools for code and schema generation and Annotations configurations.
If you desire an Introductory to Advanced book, I would suggest Java Persistence with Hibernate by Hibernate developer Gavin King. I prefer to read the advanced material from the Reference documentation or the online free Java passion course.

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Good Introduction, use Harnessing Hibernate which contains this book's update version, January 27, 2009

A very good introduction to Hibernate, covers Java version of it including XML & Annotations. However, buy or read "Harnessing Hibernate" instead as it contains an updated version of this book and a complete new section on other technologies such as Spring, Maven, etc.

Best spiritual boxed calendar, December 31, 2008

This is by far the best spiritual boxed calendar, the affirmations\text on each day is wonderful and the pictures are very beautiful.