Here we will discuss most commonly used basic annotations in hibernate - @Entity, @Table, @Id, @GeneratedValue, @Column, @Basic, @Transient, @Temporal and @Lob. Even though many annotations has both JPA (java.persistance) and hibernate (org.hibernate) versions, it is preferred to use JPA annotations whenever possible. As you can see below, some of the hibernate specific annotations are already deprecated.

 A java object within a hibernate application can be in one of the three states:

1. New/transient

2. Attached/persistent

3. Detached

Important points about object states in Hibernate

• When an object is created, it will be in the new/transient state.

  • Hibernate will not save any updates to the transient objects.

CRUD operations are Create(save), Read(select), Update(update) and Delete(delete).

Examples discussed here need to be tried out on top of the lab done @  http://javajee.com/lab-your-first-hibernate-43-program.

Session

Select, Save, update and delete operations in hibernate should be called within a session:

 SessionFactory sessionFactory = new Configuration().configure().buildSessionFactory();

You have different logging options in Hibernate and let us see some of those options quickly. Hibernate supports simple property based log enabling to supporting standard logging frameworks and even programmatically accessing log statistics.

First, you can enable showsql property in Hibernate to see the exact query being executed. You can set the property to true in the hibernate.cfg.xml XML configuration file. Please refer to http://javajee.com/lab-your-first-hibernate-43-program.

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.