Hibernate Course Outline

                                 Hibernate

1.Object Persistence.

• Object/Relational Paradigms 
• O/R Mismatch 
• Object Relational Mapping (ORM)
• Java ORM/Persistent Frameworks

2.Hibernate Architecture .

• Hibernate Architecture and API 
• Hibernate Installation/Setup 
• Configuration 
• Configuration Properties
• Mapping Files

3.Persistent Classes.

• POJOs 
• JavaBeans 
• Basic Mapping 
• Class to Table Mappings 
• Property Mapping 
• Identifiers 
• Generators 
• Natural Keys 
• Identifier Exposure
• Quoting SQL Tables and Columns

4.Working with Persistent Objects.

• Entity Lifecycle 
• Transient State 
• Persistent State 
• Persistent Object Updates and Automatic Dirty Checking 
• Detatched State 
• Deleted 
• Object Identifiers Revisited
• Merge

5.Components.

• Domain Model 
• Entities and Values 
• Components

6.Associations.

• Many-to-one 
• Bidirectional Many-to-one
• Other Collections

7.Other Associations.

• One-to-one 
• Bidirectional One-to-one 
• Many-to-many
• Bidirectional Many-to-many

8.Value Type Collections.

• Collections of Value Types 
• Collections of Components 
• Sorting Collections

9.Inheritance.

• Inheritance Mapping Strategies 
• Table per concrete class 
• Table per subclass 
• Table per hierarchy 
• Inheritance Mapping Pros/Cons 
• Polymorphism 
• Table per concrete class with unions 
• Choosing an Inheritance Strategy

10.Transitive Persistence.

• Lazy Loading 
• Proxies 
• Eager Loading 
• What’s a Proxy? 
• Detached Objects and Proxies
• Polymorphic Associations Revisited

11.Custom Mapping.

• Custom Mapping Types 
• User Type
• Enumerations

12.HQL.

• Hibernate Object Fetching Options 
• Hibernate Query 
• HQL Parameters 
• Named Queries 
• Native SQL

13.Criteria.

• Restrictions 
• Query By Example 
• Scrolling 
• Query Hints
• Query Option Pros/Cons

14.Transactions and Concurrency.

• The Java Transaction 
• Hibernate Transaction Configuration 
• Hibernate Transaction API 
• Concurrency 
• Isolation Levels 
• Optimistic Locking 
• Versioning
• Pessimistic Locking

15.Fetching Strategies.

• N+1 Selects 
• Join Fetching 
• Subselect Fetching 
• Batch Fetching 
• Queries and Fetching Strategies
• Cartesian product Problem

16.Cache.

• Hibernate Caching Architecture 
• First Level Cache 
• Second Level Cache 
• Cache Concurrency
• Configuring Second Level Cache

17.Annotations.

• Metadata 
• Annotations Pros/Cons 
• Configuring Hibernate Annotations 
• EJB3/JPA Annotations
• Hibernate Annotations