We use various materials like books, internet resources etc. for our learning, for teaching and even for preparing notes. We will list those materials here for your reference. We might include only the very basic information required for our learning and training purposes here. You may refer to these additional materials for further reading and learning.

Books

• Hibernate Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach by by Joseph Ottinger, Gary Mak and Srinivas Guruzu.

In JPA, the EntityManager controls the lifecycle of the entities.

Different ORM vendors provide its own entity manager, which is usually a wrapper around the core API and thus supports the JPA programming interfaces, life cycles and query language.

You obtain the EntityManager from an entity manager factory. EntityManagerFactory has the same role as SessionFactory in Hibernate.

These are some of the commonly asked questions to check if you know the differences between important concepts or APIs in Hibernate. This may contain beginner to advanced level questions.

1. Differentiate between entities and value types in Hibernate.

2. What is the difference between save() and persist() methods in Hibernate?

3. What is the difference between get and load methods in hibernate?

Before working with hibernate in your code, you will need to configure Hibernate with information regarding your database such as host, port, credentials etc. You also need to create mappings that tell hibernate how to map the state of a Java entity to the columns of its corresponding table.

We can configure various hibernate features either through annotations or through xml files (hbm files). Preferred approach currently is annotations.

You can configure Hibernate mainly in three ways:

This is a list of basic questions from Hibernate which you can use to check your understanding or even prepare for interviews. You may use the parent chapter, other chapters or hibernate or the forum to discuss more on these questions.

1. What is a framework?

2. What do you mean by CRUD?

3. What is Hibernate? What are the advantages of using Hibernate?

4. What is Java Persistence API (JPA)?