Yes Neil you have misunderstood.
"Hibernate is a powerful, ultra-high performance object/relational persistence and query service for Java. Hibernate lets you develop persistent objects following common Java idiom - including association, inheritance, polymorphism, composition and the Java collections framework. Extremely fine-grained, richly typed object models are possible. The Hibernate Query Language, designed as a "minimal" object-oriented extension to SQL, provides an elegant bridge between the object and relational worlds. Hibernate is now the most popular ORM solution for Java."
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by: Neil_SimpsonPosted on 2005-06-14 at 05:16:09ID: 14210316
Hibernate on laptops involves copying the current system state to the hard disk and then shutting down the system. At any point in the future when the system is powered on the previous state is loaded and the system resumes with the same applications running as when it was hibernated.
Advantages:
You can switch off your system without having to save every piece of work you have open AND when you power the system on you don't have to waste time opening all of you applications again.
Disadvantages:
Sometimes it does your system good to get a proper reboot, it frees up blocked resources and generally gets it running a little better. Also, as all the information is loaded from HDD upon resumption, it takes a while before the applications become responsive again.
Hope this helps, I may have misunderstood though as this doesn't seem particularly related to Web Development..
-Neil