Spring/Hibernate Integration Patterns, Idioms, and Pitfalls
Using Spring's Hibernate integration significantly simplifies applications that use Hibernate for data persistence by removing tedious and repetitive infrastructural code that you need to write. Intended for developers familiar with Spring/Hibernate integration basics, who want to learn additional idioms and solutions to common problems.
Learn best practices and the various alternatives available to you when using the Spring/Hibernate integration including Hibernate mapping strategies, session factory configuration, DAO and business service implementation, programmatic and declarative transaction management, unit and integration testing, and dealing with Hibernate lazy-loading.
About Scott Leberknight
Scott is Chief Architect at Near Infinity Corporation, an enterprise software development and consulting services company based in Reston, Virginia. He has been developing enterprise and web applications for 14 years professionally, and has developed applications using Java, Ruby, Groovy, and even an iPhone application with Objective-C. His main areas of interest include alternative persistence technologies, object-oriented design, system architecture, testing, and frameworks like Spring, Hibernate, and Ruby on Rails. In addition, Scott enjoys learning new languages to make himself a better and more well-rounded developer a la The Pragmatic Programmers' advice to “learn one language per year.”
Scott holds a B.S. in Engineering Science and Mechanics from Virginia Tech, and an M. Eng. in Systems Engineering from the University of Maryland. Scott speaks at the No Fluff Just Stuff Symposiums and various other conferences. In his (sparse) spare time, Scott enjoys spending time with his wife, three children, and cat. He also tries to find time to play soccer, go snowboarding, and mountain bike whenever he can.
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