Through our trainings, you benefit from the wide experience and architectural expertise of our team. We bring that experience to you in a highly interactive, intensely hands-on setting.

• Configure Hibernate in the context of a Spring application
• Create efficient object/relational mappings with Hibernate
• Leverage the Spring Framework to facilitate Hibernate session, transaction and exception management
• Use Hibernate with Spring and understand fundamental architectural issues Know how and when to use parts of the Spring Framework

Day 1: Spring Framework Foundations
• Introduction to Spring
• Using Spring to configure an application
• Simplifying application configuration
• Annotation-based dependency injection
• Simplifying JDBC-based data access with Spring
• Driving database transactions in a Spring environment

Day 2: Using the Hibernate ORM
• Introducing object-to-relational mapping (ORM)
• Getting started with Hibernate in a Spring environment
• Using JPA annotations and Hibernate XML
• Inheritance: considerations and trade-offs
• Defining custom user-types for Value Objects
• Using queries: HQL, criteria API, native (SQL)
• Hibernate in web applications: open session in view
• Using the different Java collection mappings
• Using joins and components to go beyond naïve class to table mappings

Day 3: Hibernate Internals and Configuration
• Working with Hibernate objects
• Lazy loading and detached objects
• Optimistic and pessimistic locking
• Mixing Hibernate and JDBC
• Performance tuning
• Advanced Features: interceptors, schema generation, caching, batching