Hibernate Recipes

Gary Mak, founder and chief consultant of Meta-Archit Software Technology Limited, has been a technical architect and application developer on the enterprise Java platform for more than seven years. He is the author of the Apress books Spring Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach and Pro SpringSource dm Server. In his career, Gary has developed a number of Java-based software projects, most of which are application frameworks, system infrastructures, and software tools. He enjoys designing and implementing the complex parts of software projects. Gary has a master's degree in computer science. His research interests include object-oriented technology, aspect-oriented technology, design patterns, software reuse, and domain-driven development. Gary specializes in building enterprise applications on technologies including Spring, Hibernate, JPA, JSF, Portlet, AJAX, and OSGi. He has been using the Spring Framework in his projects since Spring version 1.0. Gary has been an instructor of courses on enterprise Java, Spring, Hibernate, Web Services, and agile development. He has written a series of Spring and Hibernate tutorials as course materials, parts of which are open to the public, and they're gaining popularity in the Java community. In his spare time, he enjoys playing tennis and watching tennis competitions.

• 1. Starting with Hibernate 2. Basic Mapping and Object Identity 3. Component Mapping 4. Inheritance and Custom Mapping 5. Many-to-One and One-to-One Mapping 6. Collection Mapping 7. Many-Valued Associations 8. HQL and JPA Query Language 9. Querying with Criteria and Example 10. Working with Objects 11. Batch Processing and Native SQL 12. Caching in Hibernate 13. Transactions and Concurrency 14. Web Applications