In this excerpt from Manning Publications' Hibernate in Action, authors Christian Bauer and Gavin King introduce Hibernate's core APIs and explain its basic configuration.

Using Memcached with Hibernate in Java web applications However you slice it traditional caching requires performance trade-offs that some enterprise applications cannot afford.

JPA is the Java standard for data persistence, especially for relational systems. Here, we explore how Hibernate and JPA work together to make database processes easier.