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Java Hibernate Cookbook

By : Prajapati, Ranapariya
Book Image

Java Hibernate Cookbook

By: Prajapati, Ranapariya

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.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Index

Working with a first-level cache


Once we execute a particular query using hibernate, it always hits the database. As this process may be very expensive, hibernate provides the facility to cache objects within a certain boundary.

The basic actions performed in each database transaction are as follows:

  1. The request reaches the database server via the network.

  2. The database server processes the query in the query plan.

  3. Now the database server executes the processed query.

  4. Again, the database server returns the result to the querying application through the network.

  5. At last, the application processes the results.

This process is repeated every time we request a database operation, even if it is for a simple or small query. It is always a costly transaction to hit the database for the same records multiple times. Sometimes, we also face some delay in receiving the results because of network routing issues. There may be some other parameters that affect and contribute to the delay, but network routing...