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Overview
Developed byGavin King
Maintained byRed Hat
Founded2001
LicenseGNU Lesser General Public License
Open source✓ Open Source
Primary languageJava
Use caseObject-Relational Mapping for Java applications
Technical
Protocols
JDBC
Integrates with
Spring Framework
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Hibernate

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Java ORM framework for mapping object-oriented domain models to relational databases

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supports database

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