Should I need to have knowledge of EJB to work on Hibernate?

[Gangadhar Reddy]

Hi All,
I'm new to Hibernate. However I have good knowledge only on Session beans(EJB 2.0)

Should one has to know entity beans or EJB to work on hibernate?

Could you suggest me a book on 'hibernate', which has to be as good as Head First?

Thank you in advance

[Paul Sturrock]

You don't need any knowledge of entity beans to use Hibernate (except, perhaps to appreciate how much better a solution it is ).

I can recommend Hibernate In Action. Its fairly comprehensive.

[Gangadhar Reddy]

Thank you Paul Sturrock.

[John Grath]

Hey there,

You don�t need any experience at all of EJB. Although version 3.0 would be beneficial as it will shorten the learning curve.

John