Chapter 4. Hibernate Configuration

In Chapter 3, we took a quick tour of the fundamental concepts behind Hibernate and Spring. In fact, the steps in using Hibernate do not require much beyond what you have already learned. However, since Hibernate provides a persistence service for many different environments, it has been designed to be flexible enough for use in different environments, under different circumstances, supplying any persistence requirements.

Hibernate allows many configuration options, based on an application's persistence requirements. However, most of these parameters have default values, which relieve us of detailed configuration in most situations.