In many applications it’s useful to have your data stick around after execution finishes.  A task management application that loses all of your tasks on closing wouldn’t be very useful would it?  Although not always the case, applications typically persist their data to a database of some sort.  At load time, data can be read from the database and the user can pick back up right where they left off.

Traditionally if a developer wanted to persist an object to the database they would need to craft their own wrappers for saving and initializing objects.  Hibernate automates that process by providing a transparent Object Relational Mapping solution for any classes that need to be persisted.  Hibernate understands how to “talk” to several databases, so instead of the developer crafting custom database logic, they can use simple Hibernate transactions which will figure out the database logic automatically.

Hibernate can drastically speed up development on Java projects that require data persistence.  Depending on the requirements of your project, the Hibernate ORM may be the perfect solution for your data persistence needs.  If you’d like to integrate Hibernate into one of your projects or if you’re just curious to learn more, feel free to contact us.