Java Hibernate Cookbook

Java Hibernate Cookbook

Overview of this book

This book will provide a useful hands-on guide to Hibernate to accomplish the development of a real-time Hibernate application. We will start with the basics of Hibernate, which include setting up Hibernate – the pre-requisites and multiple ways of configuring Hibernate using Java. We will then dive deep into the fundamentals of Hibernate such as SessionFactory, session, criteria, working with objects and criteria. This will help a developer have a better understanding of how Hibernate works and what needs to be done to run a Hibernate application. Moving on, we will learn how to work with annotations, associations and collections. In the final chapters, we will see explore querying, advanced Hibernate concepts and integration with other frameworks.

Java Hibernate Cookbook

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

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Preface

Free Chapter

Setting Up Hibernate

Introduction

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 the properties file

Configuring hibernate programmatically

Understanding the Fundamentals

Introduction

Building a SessionFactory

Creating a generic SessionFactory provider class

Opening a new session

Opening a stateless session

Saving an object to the database

Fetching an object from the database

Removing an object from the database

Updating an object

Creating a criteria

Restricting the results using a criteria

Pagination using a criteria

Sorting the results

Transforming a result

Using basic projection

Basic Annotations

Introduction

Declaring a class as an entity and creating a table in the database – @Entity and @Table

Creating a column in the table – @Column

Creating a primary key and composite primary key column – @Id and @IdClass

Creating an autogenerator column

Working with Collections

Working with Associations

Introduction

One-to-one mapping using foreign key association

One-to-one mapping using a common join table

One-to-one mapping using a common primary key

One-to-many mapping or many-to-one mapping

Many-to-many mapping

Querying

Introduction

Working with an alias

Performing aggregate operations

Executing a subquery using a criteria

Executing a native SQL query

Executing a query using HQL

Using formula in hibernate

Working with NamedQuery

Advanced Concepts

Introduction

Working with a first-level cache

Working with a second-level cache

Working with a query cache

Working with the table per class hierarchy strategy of inheritance

Working with the table per subclass strategy of inheritance

Working with the table per concrete class strategy of inheritance

Working with the versioning of objects

Maintaining the history of an object

Working with an interceptor

Working with batch processing

Integration with Other Frameworks

Introduction

Integration with Spring

Integration with Struts

Index

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Creating a column in the table – @Column

In the previous recipe, you learned how to create a table in the database with attributes. Now, we will take a look at how to declare a column in the table with some useful options.

How to do it…

First of all, we take a basic example of creating a column:

We will first create a column with the name empCode in the employee table. As no information is provided for the column name, hibernate uses a variable name. Enter the following code:
```
@Entity
public class Employee {
    @Column
    private String empCode;

    // fields and getter/setter

}
```
If we need a custom column name, we can use the name attribute, as shown in the following code:
```
@Column(name="emp_code")
private String empCode;
```

Now, hibernate will create a column with the name "emp_code".

There's more…

Let's take a look at some useful attributes available for the @Column annotation.

length

The length attribute is used to provide the column with a maximum size.

Here is an example:

@Column(name="emp_code"...

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