Hibernate Annotations

Hibernate Annotations

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June, 2007

Abstract

This book is about Hibernate Annotations.

Preface
1. Setting up an annotations project
1.1. Requirements
1.2. Configuration
2. Entity Beans
2.1. Intro
2.2. Mapping with EJB3/JPA Annotations
2.2.1. Declaring an entity bean
2.2.2. Mapping simple properties
2.2.. Mapping identifier properties
2.2.4. Mapping inheritance
2.2.5. Mapping entity bean associations/relationships
2.2.6. Mapping composite primary and foreign keys
2.2.7. Mapping secondary tables
2.3. Mapping Queries
2.3.Mapping JPAQL/HQL queries. Mapping JPAQL/HQL queries
2.3.2. Mapping native queries
2.4. Hibernate Annotation Extensions
2.4.1. Entity
2.4.Identifier. Identifier
2.4.3. Property
2.4.4. Inheritance
2.4.5. Single Association related annotations
2.4.6. Collection related annotations
2.4.7. Cache
2.4.8. Filters
2.4.9. Queries
2.4.10. Custom SQL for CRUD operations
Overriding metadata through XML. Overriding metadata through XML
Overriding metadata through XML.1. Principles
Overriding metadata through XML.1.1. Global level metadata
Overriding metadata through XML.1.2. Entity level metadata
Overriding metadata through XML.1.3. Property level metadata
Overriding metadata through XML.1.4. Association level metadata
4. Hibernate Validator
4.1. Constraints
4.1.1. What is a constraint?
4.1.2. Built in constraints
4.1.3. Error messages
4.1.4. Writing your own constraints
4.1.5. Annotating your domain model
4.2. Using the Validator framework
4.2.1. Database schema-level validation
4.2.2. Hibernate event-based validation
4.2.3. Application-level validation
4.2.4. Validation informations
5. Hibernate Search: Apache Lucene™ Integration
5.1. Architecture
5.2. Configuration
5.2.1. Directory configuration
5.2.2. Enabling automatic indexing
5.3. Mapping entities to the index structure
5.4. Property/Field Bridge
5.4.1. Built-in bridges
5.4.2. Custom Bridge
5.5. Querying
5.6. Indexing