THE TUTORIAL LIBRARY
A Hibernate web application uses Session and Transaction almost like a standalone application. However, some common patterns are useful. You can now write an EventManagerServlet. T
Read tutorialThis could well be your first Hibernate Application. In this tutorial a step by step approach is taken to show you how to use hibernate in your java applications. For this example,
Read tutorialAn instance of org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration represents an entire set of mappings of an application's Java types to an SQL database. The org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration is used t
Read tutorialInstead of using the Hibernate-specific hibernate.cfg.xml configuration file, JPA, defines a different bootstrap process that uses its own configuration file named persistence.xml.
Read tutorialSometimes, you want the Database to do some computation for you rather than in the JVM, you might also create some kind of virtual column. You can use a SQL fragment (aka formula)
Read tutorialIn the above example, there is a unique valued property named socialSecurityNumber. It is defined by the class, as a natural key and a surrogate key named person_id, whose value is
Read tutorialIf you want the application to assign identifiers, as opposed to having Hibernate generate them, you can use the assigned generator. This special generator uses the identifier valu
Read tutorialFor databases that support identity columns (DB2, MySQL, Sybase, MS SQL), you can use identity key generation. For databases that support sequences (DB2, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Interb
Read tutorialThe hilo and seqhilo generators provide two alternate implementations of the hi/lo algorithm. The first implementation requires a "special" database table to hold the next availabl
Read tutorialorg.hibernate.EntityNameResolver is a contract for resolving the entity name of a given entity instance. The interface defines a single method resolveEntityName which is passed the
Read tutorialorg.hibernate.tuple.Tuplizer and its sub-interfaces are responsible for managing a particular representation of a piece of data given that representation's org.hibernate.EntityMode
Read tutorialHibernate guarantees equivalence of persistent identity (database row) and Java identity only inside a particular session scope. When you mix instances retrieved in different sessi
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