As per http://www.hibernate.org, Hibernate is a powerful, ultra-high performance object/relational persistence and query service for Java. Hibernate gives you the option to code and work with Java and use Hibernate's capabilities to interact with the database. No need to write SQL in your Java code. You work with Java objects and Hibernate does the rest.

In this "Quick Hibernate" series of articles, Satish Talim gets you started with Hibernate. Satish's hands-on approach should have you developing with Hibernate in no time.

Also check out Satish's interview: Java and J2EE Today

In this interview we speak to Ramesh Loganathan, VP Engineering at Pramati technologies. Ramesh heads the product development at Pramati.

Ramesh speaks about Pramati's origins in India and how it has moved on to being one of the top application server vendors in the world. Ramesh answers the all important question of why you should buy the Pramati server over the competition and also gives us an overview of the new features in Pramati's latest offering, Pramati Server version 4.1.

Ramesh also shares his views on J2EE complexity, SOA, enterprise integration and the evolving J2EE specifications.

Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures are two of the coolest words in technology today. However not many of us know much about what these technologies really have to offer.

In this interview, we speak to Sameer Tyagi who is an Enterprise Architect with Sun's Client Services Group and has several books to his name. Sameer speaks about SOA and Web Services and their relevance to the kind of Java development happening today.

Programmers of the world better start planning an alternative career. Gartner predicts the "death of a programmer" within the next eight to ten years. With tools doing most of the work, the role of a programmer will be marginalized within the next decade is what they say. Check this report:  A Programmer's key to survival.

We have seen something similar happen in many other industries where tools and technology made 1000's of employees redundant. Can something similar happen to the ubiquitous programmer?

In this interview, we speak to Satish Talim, a well known IT name in India. Satish has been working with Java for almost a decade.  Here he shares his Java experiences, his views on open source and also has some useful advice for those starting off with Java.

Just recently I discovered a simple problem in our application around the packaging of custom taglibs in JARs. Looking into the issue, it seems that the ".tld" files were placed in the /WEB-INF/tld folder in the JAR! That is wrong. The correct way to do it is...