Hibernate is one of the most popular persistent frameworks in Java world. Hibernate offers object to relational (ORM) solution which frees Java developers from writing tedious, hard to read and cluttered JDBC code converting SQL columns into Object properties. Apart from freeing Java developer from writing JDBC and database interaction code, Hibernate also offers the out-of-box solution on caching, proxying and lazy loading which drastically improves the performance of your Java Web application. Given it's important in Java Web application development field Hibernate has become of one of the most sought after skill and goes hand in hand with Spring framework. That's why Hibernate interview questions are also very popular in Java interviews. Earlier I have shared some Spring MVC interview questions and due to popular demand, I am now sharing 20 odd Hibernate questions from various Java interviews.
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