Hibernate is a an object/relational mapping framework, it allows to manipulate data from a relational database as objects. As a framework, it uses many files of mapping and settings.
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- What does static mean in Java?
- What does final mean in Java?
- What does transient mean in Java?
- What does volatile mean in Java?
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