Hibernate annotations Introduction

Friends Happy point for you:- Annotations are replacement for “xyz.hbm.xml” files

Let us learn few points regarding annotations in hibernate

Annotations are introduced in java along with JDK 1.5, annotations are used to
provide META data to the classes, variables, and methods of java

Annotations are given by SUN as replacement to the use of xml files in java

In hibernate annotations are given to replace hibernate mapping [ xml ] files

While working with annotations in hibernate, we do not require any mapping files, but
hibernate xml configuration file is must required

Hibernate borrowed annotations from java persistence API but hibernate it self doesn’t
contain its own annotations

Every annotation is internally an Interface, and the keywords starts with @ symbol