入门指南

New users may want to first look through the Hibernate Getting Started Guide for basic information as well as tutorials.

新用户可能希望首先通过Hibernate入门指南了解基本信息以及教程。

There is also a series of topical guides providing deep dives into various topics. 一系列的主题指南提供深入到各种主题的各个方面。

While having a strong background in SQL is not required to use Hibernate, it certainly helps a lot because it all boils down to SQL statements.Probably even more important is an understanding of data modeling principles.You might want to consider these resources as a good starting point: 虽然对sql语句掌握非常熟的开发人员可以不需要使用Hibernate，但是由于Hibernate可以归结为SQL语句,它肯定会对开发人员有很多帮助。开发人员甚至可能会了解更重要的数据建模原则。开发人员可能会把下列资源作为一个好的起点：

• Data Modeling Wikipedia definition
• 数据建模
• Data Modeling 101
• 数据建模 101

Understanding the basics of transactions and design patterns such as Unit of Work PoEAA or Application Transaction are important as well. 了解事务和设计模式(例如 Unit of Work PoEAA或 Application Transaction)的基础知识也很重要。 These topics will be discussed in the documentation, but a prior understanding will certainly help. 虽然这些主题将在下面文档中讨论，但是先前的了解肯定会有所帮助。