Hibernate Quickly : Patrick Peak and Nick Heudecker

Hibernate Quickly - Patrick Peak and Nick Heudecker

Patrick Peak and Nick Heudecker.
Manning October 2005
ISBN-1932394419
456 pages

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About: Hibernate Quickly

Hibernate Quickly is a disaster! I have read many 'Quickly' series over the years and one of which was XSLT Quickly and they have all been good reads, so I was very excited to get my hands on this one - but was just as quickly disappointed.

This was a great opportunity wasted, the authors made a big mess of this book and in the process have dragged the 'Quickly' name through the mud. First off, it was impossible to get even the first example to work and the downloadable source code was different from what was demonstrated in the book.

I think this book was a product of two confused authors, at face value the book looked OK, but as you continued and tried running the accompanied sample code, Boom! you hit the first problem - you couldn't retrieve any data from the database.

The fact of the matter is that the book promised everything about getting you developing with hibernate quickly, but ended up doing NOTHING. It was very painful to even get to the fourth chapter without uttering swear words.

To make matters worse, almost half of the book was dedicated to subjects entirely unrelated to hibernate; making it even more annoying. Most of the Java developers that this book was aimed at will have known other web frameworks like Struts, Tapestry and Webwork that was dedicated to a whole chapter.
This book often goes off on tangents onto materials that are remotely relevant to the subject domain. I didn't think that Manning books could get lower than Wrox, but I was very wrong.

If you'd like to get yourself other books on hibernate instead of wasting your money on Hibernate Quickly, I would recommend you buy Java Persistence with Hibernate. This is a much better read, but some sections in this book still presents the same code sample from Hibernate Quickly, but not much. The Java Persistence with Hibernate based on the Hibernate 3 that is the current version and has online manual that is upto date that supports the book.

Conclusion

My advice - don't waste your precious money and time on Hibernate Quickly. You are better off getting tutorials else online than what this book provides. The authors totally missed the opportunity to convey simple development framework to their readers. The first 2 chapters were ok, from there onwards, every thing was all messed up. Don't bother buying this book, give your money to a street begger instead!

Biography

Patrick Peak is the chief technology officer of BrowserMedia, a Java/J2EE web development/design firm in Bethesda, MD. His focus is on using open source frameworks/tools as a competitive advantage for rapid custom software development. He has been using Hibernate in numerous production applications for almost two years. He runs a Java/Technology weblog at www.patrickpeak.com.

Nick Heudecker is the president and founder of System Mobile, a software consulting firm headquartered in Chicago, IL. He has more than nine years of commercial development experience, and he has developed software products and solutions for multiple Fortune 500 clients as well as media, lobbying, and government organizations.

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