Java Persistence with Hibernate

Introduction to Hibernate

• Introducing Hibernate

• The Object/ Relational Mapping Problem

• JDBC

• The Users-Roles Schema

• Tools and Environment Setup

• Creating the Database

Configuring Hibernate

• Hibernate Distributions

• Required Libraries

• Configuration Files

• hibernate. properties

• hibernate. cfg. xml

Hibernate Persistence

• The Hibernate Architecture

• SessionFactory Methods

• Hibernate Sessions

• Object States

• State Transitions

• Session Methods

• Transactions

• Session-Per-Operation

• Session-Per-Request

• The Data Access Object Pattern

Object/ Relational Mapping

• Object-Oriented Design

• Relational Mapping

• Bidirectional Association

• O/ R Mapping Techniques

• The Mapping Document

• The Mapping XML Model

• Primary Keys and Identity

• Generating Identifiers

• Other Mapping Elements

• Components

• Mapping Associations

• The Mapping XML Model for Associations

• Unidirectional Many-to-One

• Eager Fetching

• Bidirectional One-To-Many

• Bidirectional One-To-One

• Mapping Inheritance

• Inheritance and Databases

• Single-Table Inheritance

• Mapping Single-Table Inheritance

• Table-Per-Subclass

• Table-Per-Subclass Mapping

• Table-Per-Concrete-Class

The Hibernate Query Language

• The Hibernate Query Language

• Fundamentals

• HQL Queries

• Polymorphism

• Named Parameters

• Entity Parameters

• Joining on Associations

• Aggregate Methods

• Updates and Deletes

• Named Queries

• Using Native SQL