Richmond Introduction to Hibernate

Issues with Persistence layers and Object-Relational Mapping (ORM)

Hibernate Overview and Benefits

Hibernate architecture overview

POJO (Plain Old Java Object) Based Mapping

Overview of the Hibernate distribution

Configuring Hibernate

"Hello World" Program for Hibernate

Mapping a Class

Hibernate Type System

Working with sessions and Persistent Objects

Logging - log4j Overview and configuration for Hibernate

Inserting and Updating Entities

HQL - Hibernate Query Language Overview

The Query Interface

Creating and working with queries

Named Queries, Projection Queries, Aggregate Queries

Transaction Overview and Transactions in Hibernate

Hibernate Transaction API (in Managed and Non-managed Environments)

The lifecycle of managed objects

Persistent, transient, and detached objects

The Persistence (Session) Context (Lifespan, Relation to Managed Objects, Propagation)

Contextual Sessions

Synchronization to the Database

The Session as cache

Detached Objects and Optimistic Locking

Versioning overview and Using Versioning

Locking Objects

Object Relationship Overview

Mapping Collections of Value Objects

Entity Relationships: 1-N, N-1, N-N, 1-1

Mapping Entity Relationships

Uni and Bi-directional Relationships

The Relationship "inverse"

Cascading Over Relationships

Queries Across Relationships (Lazy and Eager)

Entity Inheritance with Hibernate

Table-per-class mapping

Table per Subclass mapping

Table per Concrete Class mapping

Projection Queries, Aggregate queries

Bulk updates and deletes

Native SQL Queries

Query Filters

Overview of the Criteria API

Working Querying with the Criteria API

Query by Example

Overview of Java Persistence / EJB 3

Relationship between Java Persistence and Hibernate

Overview of Annotations

Mapping Entities with Hibernate Annotations

The EntityManager, Persistence Context and Persistence Unit

Working with Transactions - EntityTransaction, Managed, and Unmanaged Environments

Inserts and Updates

JPQL - Java Persistence Query Language

Versioning

Relationships

Components and Multi-Table Mapping

equals() and hashCode()

Caching and Efficiency

Design Considerations