If you’ve never used an ORM tool like Hibernate before, you were probably expecting to see the SQL statements somewhere in the code or metadata. They aren’t there.

A challenge when developing applications that use object-relational mapping (ORM) like Hibernate and JPA, a common approach is to list each @Entity decorated Java class programmatically either in the ...

ORM tools like Hibernate, EclipseLink, OpenJPA, and MyBatis translate relational database models, including entities and their relationships, into object-oriented models.