This tutorial will teach you how to use Hibernate to develop your database based web applications in simple and easy steps. You will learn how to select, update and delete a record using the Hibernate framework, map the subclasses in the Hibernate mapping file, flow of the Hibernate framework, get one-to-many relationship in the Hibernate framework, generate primary key automatically using the Hibernate framework, and use the Hibernate query language to select the data from the database tables.