Introduction to Hibernate - Pantheon Systems, Inc.

Pantheon Systems, Inc.
The Object Technology Company

Introduction to HIBERNATE
Persistence made Simple

Duration: 2 days

Class Size: Up to 15 attendees

Prerequisites:Basic understanding of database applications. Knowledge of JDBC (equivalent to that covered in Pantheon's Advanced Programming in Java), familiarity with XML assumed.

Who should attend?
Software architects, database designers and developers.

What will you learn? :

Object-Relational Mapping Issues
How Hibernate adderesses them
Solving Database Access wrangles with Hibernate

Course Contents

The Object Persistence Challenge
Objects and Identity, Associations and Inheritance with Databases.
JDBC
Object Graphs and the relational model. Creating and deleting objects graphs.
Installing Hibernate
Where to get Hibernate. Setting up a sample database with Hibernate. The Build file.
Setting up Hibernate
Configuring Hibernate. Mappings, setting up mapping definitions. IDs and generators. Proxies. Fetching associated objects.
Using Hibernate
The SessionFactory. Persisting Objects. The Section Cache, connection pools, transactions, and cache providers. Inheritance in Hibernate.
Configuring Associations, and Components
Many-to-One Relationships, depth. The Central Configuration file. Building tables with, ANT and SchemaExport. Components, and their mappings.
Spring and Databases
DAO and Spring. Spring and JDBC. The ORM Framework. Using Hibernate with Spring. Spring and other DB Frameworks.
Collections and Custom Types
How to Persist Collections and Arrays. Collection types, and Lazy Collections. Sorted, and Bidirectional Associations. Custom types, and their implementations.
Queries In Hibernate
Introducing HQL. The Query interface. Outer Joins. Substitutions. Query Parsers. Using HQL. The FROM clause. HQL properties .Using expressions. Criteria queries and stored procedures. Hiber8IDE.
Testing Hibernate
Testing the persistence layer. General database testing. Testing with DBUnit.
Advanced Topics
Using Hibernate with other frameworks. Hibernate with XDoclet. Filters. Multiple table mapping. Discriminator formulas. Property references. Using Dynamic classes and Annotations. Moving to Stored procedures and SQL. Handling Persistence events.

Introduction to HIBERNATE uses a combination of lecture and labs to provide students with a practical understanding of this simple but effective technology to manage data access. The course uses hands-on exercises allowing attendees to gain practical knowledge of using Hibernate.