Mastering Hibernate

Learn how to correctly utilize the most popular Object-Relational Mapping tool for your Enterprise application

Key Features

• Understand the internals of Hibernate and its architecture, and how it manages Entities, Events, Versioning, Filters, and Cache
• Observe how Hibernate bridges the gap between object-oriented concepts and relational models
• Discover how Hibernate can address architectural concerns such as Transaction, Database Multi-tenancy, Clustering, and Database Shards

Book Description

What you will learn

• Understand the internals of a Hibernate session and how Entities are managed
• Declare better mapping between entity classes and database tables
• Manage entity associations and collections
• Fetch data not just by entity ID, but also using HQL, Criteria Objects, Filters, and Native SQL
• Observe the first and second level caches and find out how to manage them
• Collect statistics and metrics data for further observation
• Make your application work with multi-tenant databases

Who this book is for

Mastering Hibernate is intended for those who are already using or considering using Hibernate as the solution to address the problem of Object Relational Mapping. If you are already using Hibernate, this book will help you understand the internals and become a power user of Hibernate.