Hello,

I am starting a new project and am familiar with the older versions of Hibernate. However, since this is a new project and I have Java 5.0 available to me, I am considering using Hibernate 3.2.

I do not have an EJB 3.0 container available to me in my application server, but would like to be able to use the Annotations and EntityManager portions of Hibernate 3.2. I'm considering purchasing this book, however had some questions on the content.

Looking through the tutorials for 3.2 (including annotations and entity manager) everything seems to be geared toward EE 5.0 and EJB 3.0. I read the brief description of the book, and it mentions EJB 3.0, etc. However, does the book go into detail on using the features of Hibernate 3.2 without using EE 5.0 and EJB 3.0, or is it primarily written from that perspective? I would like to buy the book to get a jumpstart on using 3.2, but it obviously won't be much help if I do not have the technologies available that are demonstrated.

Thanks,
Andrew Schneider

It covers everything from every perspective.