Hibernate ORM, popularly known as just Hibernate, is a framework that maps object-oriented domain models to databases in Java. Hibernate was first released in 2001, back when data persistence ...

Learn Hibernate Quickly: Simplified Java Persistence with Hibernate & JPA, covering both Hibernate 3.2.x and the JPA 2.0 compliant Hibernate 3.5.

I discovered Hibernate Validator, an open source project from JBoss. The framework impressed me with its simplicity and flexibility, so I am introducing it with this Java Tip.

In order to explore TDD and Java applications, I practiced the Java EE Spike Kata in 2010. Here’s a video of me and Anders Karlsen doing this kata at JavaZone 2010.