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[SOUND] Hello there.

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If we haven't met before I'm Chris and
I'm a Java teacher here at Treehouse.

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Before we start I want to point
you to a couple courses that

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I'll assume you've taken.

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The first is Java Annotations.

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We'll be leveraging annotations
during this course so

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it's important that
you've seen them before.

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The second is the Gradle dependencies workshop.

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We'll be using Gradle to pull in some third party libraries and

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this workshop will help you understand how to get started with Gradle

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So, what is it that we'll
be covering in this course?

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We're going to cover a method
of working with databases

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in a way that integrates with our Java
objects in an obvious and natural manner.

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The task of mapping database data to
objects is typically accomplished

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using what's called an ORM or
Object Relational Mapping framework.

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We'll talk more about what
this means exactly but

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in this course the framework we'll be using to handle our database operations

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and mapping to Java objects is called Hibernate.

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Hibernate is one of the most feature
packed solutions available, but

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it can also be quite intimidating.

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So, here is how I'll break it down for
you.

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First, I'd like to provide some
motivation for considering an ORM at all,

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including a discussion on
data persistence, a lightning

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fast overview of database concepts as well
as using Java to connect to a database.

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Here, we'll see that translating database
data to the objects we've written to

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represent our data can be quite tedious.

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Next, we'll add Hibernate into the mix and
see how to configure and

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run a simple console based application.

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And, by the time you're done with
this course you'll be ready to move

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onto more advanced uses of Hibernate, such
as integrating with a web application,

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in a framework like Spring.

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So, when you're ready, head on over to
the next video and we'll get started.