Complete Hibernate Tutorial with Example

14 March 2009 9 Comments

Here I am consolidating all articles on hibernate. All important topics required to beging with hibernate and acquire average proficiency are covered in the articles with examples. Also the first example gives you the starting code to try out further concepts of hibernate. More complex concepts can be found in hibernate reference material.

Hibernate Example on Eclipse and Oracle: Start with this code on Eclipse and using Oracle database.

Hibernate ORM Basics: It gives details of object relational mapping and how hibernate provides support to the database interaction in object oriented way.

Hibernate Object States Revealed: Hibernate takes a Java object through different states while interacting with database. This topic is explained with different considerations to be made while dealing with all states.

Hibernate Session Factory: It is core of hibernate’s database connection. There are many controlling parameters. Important aspects of hibernate session factory are discussed in this article.

Hibernate Mapping Basics: ORM is mapping of objects with tables in a relational database. We start with mapping concepts in this article.

Hibernate Association Mappings: Many – To – One: Details of Many-to-One unidirectional mapping are explained in this article.

Hibernate Association Mappings: One – To – Many: Details of One-to-Many unidirectional mapping are explained in this article.

Hibernate Unidirectional One to One Association Mapping: Details of One-to-One unidirectional mapping are explained in this article.

Hibernate Bi-Directional Mapping in Detail: All above mappings can be reversed i.e. one can traverse in the relation in bottom up approach which is start from child and reach the parent.

Hibernate Inheritence Mapping Strategies: Object oriented concept of inheritence can be implemented in hiberntate using three different stategies, this article discussed those strategies in detail along with advantages and disadvantages of those.

Hibernate Query Support through HQL, Native SQL, and Criteria Search: Hibernate introduces new query language, i.e. hibernate query language, which handles data persistence in object oriented way. It also supports the SQL. Details of these two languages are discused in this article, and also the hibernate criteria search API is discussed here.