Harnessing Hibernate

Harnessing Hibernate is an ideal introduction to the popular framework that lets Java developers work with information from a relational database easily and efficiently. Databases are a very different world than Java objects, and they often involve people with different skills and specializations. With Hibernate, bridging these two worlds is significantly easier, and with this book, you can get up to speed with Hibernate quickly. Rather than present you with another reference, Harnessing Hibernate lets you explore the system, from download and configuration through a series of projects that demonstrate how to accomplish a variety of practical goals. The new edition of this concise guide walks you through Hibernate's primary features, which include mapping from Java classes to database tables, and from Java data types to SQL data types. You will also learn about Hibernate's data query and retrieval facilities, and much more.

James Elliott is a senior software engineer at Berbee, with fifteen years' professional experience as a systems developer. He started designing with objects well before work environments made it convenient, and has a passion for building high-quality Java tools and frameworks to simplify the tasks of other developers.

Tim is a professional singer/programmer living and working in the Chicago area. He prefers Emacs to vi. Tim discovered programming on a TRS-80, and went on to study (and subsequently forget) Electrical Engineering at UVA. In his free time Tim likes to sleep, study music, build toys with microcontrollers, and participate in open source projects. Tim is active in the Jakarta Commons.

Ryan Fowler is a software engineer at Berbee in Madison, WI. He programmed Basic on Apple II machines for a while in elementary school at St. Stephen School in Grand Rapids, MI. He returned to coding in the computer science department at Alma College in Alma, MI while earning his bachelor's degree. Ryan skis, sails and rounds life out with some guitar playing when there's no snow or wind.

Preface	p. ix
Hibernate in a Hurry
Installation and Setup	p. 3
Getting an Ant Distribution	p. 3
Check Your Java Version	p. 5
Getting the Maven Tasks for Ant	p. 6
Installing the Maven Tasks for Ant	p. 8
Using the HSQLDB Database Engine	p. 8
Using Hibernate Core	p. 10
Setting Up a Project Hierarchy	p. 12
Introduction to Mapping	p. 25
Writing a Mapping Document	p. 26
Generating Some Class	p. 29
Cooking Up a Schema	p. 34
Harnessing Hibernate	p. 43
Configuring Hibernate	p. 43
Creating Persistent Objects	p. 46
Finding Persistent Objects	p. 56
Better Ways to Build Queries	p. 60
Collections and Associations	p. 63
Mapping Collections	p. 63
Persisting Collections	p. 71
Retrieving Collections	p. 77
Using Bidirectional Associations	p. 80
Working with Simpler Collections	p. 84
Richer Associations	p. 87
Eager and Lazy Associations	p. 87
Ordered Collections	p. 90
Augmenting Associations in Collections	p. 92
Lifecycle Associations	p. 104
Reflexive Associations	p. 107
Custom Value Types	p. 111
Defining a User Type	p. 111
Defining a Persistent Enumerated Type	p. 112
Using a Custom Type Mapping	p. 114
Working with Persistent Enumerations	p. 119
Building a Composite User Type	p. 126
The Annotations Alternative	p. 139
Hibernate Annotations	p. 139
Annotating Model Objects	p. 143
An Alternate Approach	p. 158
Criteria Queries	p. 163
Using Simple Criteria	p. 164
Compounding Criteria	p. 167
Projection and Aggregation with Criteria	p. 168
Applying Criteria to Associations	p. 173
Querying by Example	p. 175
Property-Oriented Criteria Factories	p. 177
A Look at HQL	p. 179
Writing HQL Queries	p. 179
Selecting Properties and Pieces	p. 184
Sorting	p. 188
Working with Aggregate Values	p. 189
Writing Native SQL Queries	p. 192
Playing Nice with Others
Connecting Hibernate to MySQL	p. 199
Setting Up a MySQL Database	p. 199
Connecting to MySQL	p. 200
Trying It Out	p. 201
Looking at the Data	p. 205
Hibernate and Eclipse: Really Using the Hibernate Tools	p. 209
Installing the Hibernate Tools in Eclipse	p. 209
Creating a Hibernate Console Configuration	p. 217
More Editing Support	p. 219
The Hibernate Console Perspective	p. 222
Code Generation	p. 230
Mapping Diagrams	p. 236
Maven in More Depth	p. 239
What Is Maven?	p. 239
Installing Maven	p. 242
Building, Testing, and Running a Project	p. 243
Generating IDE Project Files using Maven	p. 245
Generating Reports with Maven	p. 247
A Maven Project Object Model	p. 250
The Maven Build Lifecycle	p. 260
Using the Maven Hibernate3 Plug-in	p. 262
Becoming a Maven Maven	p. 266
Put a Spring in your Step: Hibernate with Spring	p. 269
What Is Spring?	p. 269
Writing a Data Access Object	p. 272
Creating an Application Context	p. 281
Putting It All Together	p. 285
The Finishing Touch: Stripes with Spring and Hibernate	p. 297
Earn Your Stripes	p. 298
Prepare Tomcat	p. 299
Create the Web Application	p. 299
Add Stripes	p. 304
Dealing with Associations	p. 317
Hibernate Types	p. 327
The Criteria API	p. 333
Hibernate SQL Dialects	p. 341
Spring Transaction Support	p. 343
Where to Go Next	p. 347
Index	p. 351
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