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📘 Learn Hibernate
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Learn Hibernate by Davis Miller is your complete roadmap to mastering Hibernate, the go-to ORM framework for Java. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to level up your Hibernate skills, this book covers everything from entity mapping and CRUD operations to caching, transactions, Spring integration, and NoSQL.
Expect hands-on projects, real-world scenarios, performance tips, and best practices designed for building scalable, robust, and secure Hibernate applications in enterprise and microservice environments.
📚 Table of Contents
📖 Introduction
🧱 Chapter 1: Introduction to Hibernate
- What is Hibernate?
- Importance of ORM
- Hibernate vs. JDBC
- Architecture Overview
- Hibernate vs. JPA
- Conclusion
⚙️ Chapter 2: Setup and Configuration
- Setting Up in Java Projects
- Maven/Gradle Dependencies
- Configuration Files
- Database Connection
- Hibernate Properties
- SessionFactory and Session
- ✅ End of Chapter Exercises
- Conclusion
🗃️ Chapter 3: Annotations and XML Mapping
- Entity Mapping Intro
- Hibernate Annotations
- XML Mapping
- Summary
- ✅ End of Chapter Exercises
- Conclusion
🔄 Chapter 4: CRUD Operations
- Creating (Insert)
- Reading (Select)
- Updating
- Deleting
- HQL Queries
- Criteria API
- ✅ End of Chapter Exercises
- Conclusion
🔗 Chapter 5: Relationships and Associations
- One-to-One
- One-to-Many / Many-to-One
- Many-to-Many
- Bidirectional vs. Unidirectional
- Cascade Types, Lazy vs. Eager
- ✅ End of Chapter Exercises
- Conclusion
🔐 Chapter 6: Transactions and Concurrency
- ACID in Hibernate
@Transactional- Optimistic vs. Pessimistic Locking
- Isolation Levels
- Versioning with
@Version - ✅ End of Chapter Exercises
- Conclusion
🧠 Chapter 7: Hibernate Caching
- First-Level (Session)
- Second-Level Cache
- Query Cache
- Configuring Caches
- ✅ End of Chapter Exercises
- Conclusion
🔍 Chapter 8: HQL in Detail
- Intro to HQL
- Select, Insert, Update, Delete
- Named and Native Queries
- Pagination
- ✅ End of Chapter Exercises
- Conclusion
🛠️ Chapter 9: Criteria API
- Introduction
- Dynamic Query Building
- Aggregations and Projections
- ✅ End of Chapter Exercises
- Conclusion
🌱 Chapter 10: Spring Integration
- Spring ORM Basics
- Hibernate with Spring Boot
JpaRepository,CrudRepository- Spring Data JPA
- ✅ End of Chapter Exercises
- Conclusion
🧬 Chapter 11: Advanced Features
- Interceptors, Event Listeners
- Custom ID Generators
- Batch Processing
- Multi-Tenancy
- ✅ End of Chapter Exercises
- Conclusion
🚀 Chapter 12: Performance Tuning
- N+1 Query Problem
- Preventing SQL Injection
- Fetching Strategies
- Hibernate Profiling
- ✅ End of Chapter Exercises
- Conclusion
🛡️ Chapter 13: Validation and Security
- Bean Validation (
@Valid,@NotNull) - Role-Based Security
- SQL Injection Prevention
- ✅ End of Chapter Exercises
- Conclusion
🌐 Chapter 14: Hibernate with NoSQL
- Hibernate OGM Overview
- MongoDB Integration
- Cassandra Integration
- Best Practices
- ✅ End of Chapter Exercises
- Conclusion
🧪 Chapter 15: Testing Applications
- Unit Testing
- Mocking Sessions
- Integration with JUnit, Testcontainers
- ✅ End of Chapter Exercises
- Conclusion
🔁 Chapter 16: Migrating from JDBC
- Challenges & Strategy
- Converting SQL to HQL
- ✅ End of Chapter Exercises
- Conclusion
🧯 Chapter 17: Troubleshooting Hibernate
LazyInitializationException- Transaction Issues
- Debugging Queries
- ✅ End of Chapter Exercises
- Conclusion
🔮 Chapter 18: Future and Trends
- Hibernate 6 Features
- Alternatives (MyBatis, JOOQ)
- Hibernate in Microservices
- ✅ End of Chapter Exercises
- Conclusion
💬 “Hibernate makes database access simple and scalable. This book helps you master it step-by-step—across projects, teams, and enterprise apps.”