Entity inheritance models in Hibernate 4
Last time we have taken a look at mapping entity relations to the database. Now it is time to focus on the main object-orinented relation: inheritance.
Hibernate is an object-relational mapping (ORM) library for the Java language, providing a framework for mapping an object-oriented domain model to a traditional relational database. Hibernate solves object-relational impedance mismatch problems by replacing direct persistence-related database accesses with high-level object handling functions.
Last time we have taken a look at mapping entity relations to the database. Now it is time to focus on the main object-orinented relation: inheritance.
In the last, introductory article I mentioned the so-called “XML-Hell” which is the massive usage of XML to do Hibernate configuration. In this article, I will introduce the annotation-based configuration, where you can use Hibernate’s annotations on the entities to…
An introduction to Hibernate 4 In this article I will show you how can you use Hibernate 4, along with a simple example application available to try out what you read about.
What is Hibernate Hibernate is an object-relational mapping (ORM) library for the Java language, providing a framework for mapping an object-oriented domain model to a traditional relational database. Hibernate solves object-relational impedance mismatch problems by replacing direct persistence-related database accesses…