APress sent me a review copy of Dave Minter's and Jeff Linwood's "Pro Hibernate 3". For a book whose title starts with "Pro" I would have expected a couple more pages with more detailed stuff. However, this was a very pleasant reading experience which provided many crispy insights into the new 3.0 release of the Hibernate framework.

My 8-horseshoes review follows (also available at Javaranch.com):

The task of mapping objects to tables in a relational database management system (O/RM) has been the focus of many research projects over the past decade. The fact of the matter is that the O/RM problem domain is a very complex area that has long been short of efficient solutions. A host of vendors and open-source communities have tackled the O/RM problem and have come up with solutions, such as EJB, Toplink and JDO, which were either considered successful or inefficient depending on a wide range of subjective and objective point of views.