Hibernate 3 - Core

Dirty Checking

• Concept : understand dirty checking concept
• Implementation : understand mechanism in hibernate
• Behaviour : difference between properties and collection

Hibernate Components This category contains questions regarding the setup of Hibernate (configuration files, mapping files, ...); usefulness and use of important methods for configuration.

• Configuration : understand the basic Configuration object methods (addClass(Class persistentClass), addFile(), ...) How to get a SessionFactory Object,
• SessionFactory Object : understand the basic methods ( openSession(), how to get entity metadatas, ...)
• Property files, hibernate.properties vs. hibernate.cfg.xml, explicit loading
• Dialects : Basic information found in a dialect, how to configure, how hibernate uses it.

Lifecycle States and Transition Understand entities lifecycle (Transient, Persistent, Detached) and state transition.

• States : Reading code being able to define what is the state of an entity.
• Session APIs : Programmatic ways to check the state (Session API)
• State Transition Session APIs : Understand the Session APIs related to entity state (persist(), save(), evict(), ...)
• Understand Flushing mechanism

POJO Classes Structure and Simple mapping What are the basic requirements for POJO classes and how to map them in .hbm.xml files

• Constructor requirements : access modifier allowed, Is constructor mandatory, are parameters allowed.
• equals() & hashCode() : Understand correct equals() & hashCode() implementations.
• getters() & setters() : Know how to implement getters and setters, are they mandatory, field/property access.
• Identifier property : Know how to map and implement id, composite id, generators, custom generators. Understand generator mechanism.
• Basic Mapping : How to define a particular SQL type for a column, how to map a class on multiple table, ...
• Attributes for the <class> element and their meaning
• Attributes for the <property> element and their meaning

Types

• Hibernate Types : difference between Entity and ValueType, know how to implement Component, Component Collections, ...
• Custom Types : How to implement UserType and CompositeUserType, understand the mechanism
• Understand the use of the org.hibernate.usertype.ParameterizedType interface.