Hibernate Setup and Configuration

• Getting the Required Libraries for Hibernate
• Creating a Hibernate Persistent Class
• Providing an XML-based Hibernate Mapping
• Providing an Annotation-based Hibernate Mapping
• Providing a Hibernate Configuration Using an XML File
• Providing a Hibernate Configuration Using Java
• Configuring Hibernate Programmatically

Understanding the Fundamentals

• Introduction
• Building a Session
• Creating a Generic Session Factory Class
• Opening a New Session
• Opening a Stateless Session
• Persisting an Object to the Database
• Fetching an Object from the Database
• Deleting an Object from the Database
• Updating an Object

Basic Annotations

• Declaring a Class as an Entity and Creating a Table in the Database
• Creating a Column in the Database Table
• Creating the Primary Key and Composite Primary Key in the Java Class
• Creating an Auto-generated Column

Working with Collections

• Introduction
• Persisting a List
• Persisting a Set
• Persisting a Map
• Persisting an Array

Working with Associations

• Introduction
• One-to-One Mapping Using a Foreign Key
• One-to-One Mapping Using a Common Join Table
• One-to-One Mapping Using a Common Key
• One-to-One Mapping or Many-to-One Mapping
• Many-to-Many Mapping

Querying

• Introduction
• Working with an Alias
• Performing Aggregate Operations
• Using a Subquery with a Criteria
• Executing a Native SQL Query
• Using a Query Language (HQL)
• Using Formulas in Hibernate
• Working with Named Queries