Hibernate Annotations

This pdf tutorial present a reference guide for Hibernate , a training document course on 49 pages for beginners.

Hibernate needs several elements to operate:

• javabean a type of class that encapsulates the data of an instance of a table a configuration
• file that ensures the correspondence between the class and the table (mapping) including information on configuration
• properties for connecting to the database

Supported databases are the main market: DB2, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase, SQL Server, Sap DB, InterBase, ...

The http://www.hibernate.org official website has lots of information on the tool and offers to download and documentation.

Table of contents

• Setting up an annotations project 
• Entity Beans 
• Intro 
• Mapping with EJB3 Annotations 
• Defining the table 
• Versioning for optimistic locking 
• Mapping simple properties 
• Declaring basic property mappings 
• Declaring column attributes 
• Non-annotated property defaults 
• Mapping identifier properties 
• Mapping inheritance
• Single table per class hierarchy
• Joined subclasses
• Inherit properties from superclasses
• Mapping entity bean associations/relationships
• One-to-one
• Many-to-one
• Transitive persistence with cascading
• Association fetching
• Mapping composite primary and foreign keys
• Mapping EJBQL/HQL queries
• Mapping native queries
• Hibernate Annotation Extensions

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