Java Hibernate Basics

Java/J2EE Programming Training
Hibernate

Classification: Restricted
Agenda
• Introduction
• Architecture
• The Persistence Lifecycle
• Getting Started
• Relationships and Associations
• Advanced Mapping Concepts
• Hibernate Queries
• Hibernate Transactions
• Hibernate Extensions

Hibernate Introduction

Preface
• Most of the modern languages have embraced Object Oriented
Programming (OOP) approach.
• OOP based software architecture promotes separation of concerns
such that each component does only what it is supposed to do.
• Application development should mostly focus on problems in the
application domain, which is the business logic.
• A highly scalable architecture is one with the least amount of direct
dependence between components.
• But most application makes use of relational database to persist
data.
• Somewhere in the guts of the application a database is being
queried and a response is offered.
• While the demand for such applications has grown, their creation
has not become noticeably simpler.

Persistence
• Persistence of information is one of the most basic requirements in
a software application
• Almost all languages provide ways and methods to persist data.
• J2EE has supported JDBC for persistence since its beginning.
• JDBC has been useful but tends to not allow isolation of business
logic and persistence concerns.
• Some standardization has occurred - the most successful being the
Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) standard of Java 2 Enterprise Edition
(J2EE), which provides for container- and bean-managed
persistence of entity bean classes.
• Unfortunately, this and other persistence models all suffer to one
degree or another from the mismatch between the relational model
and the object-oriented model.
• In short, database persistence is difficult.

Plain Old Java Objects (POJOs)
• In our ideal world, it would be trivial to take any Java object and persist it to
the database.
• Object pojoId = value;
• MagicPersistenceSolution magic =
MagicPersistenceSolution.getInstance();
• pojo = magic.get(pojoId);
• POJO pojo = new POJO();
• MagicPersistenceSolution magic =
MagicPersistenceSolution.getInstance();
• magic.save(pojo);

JDBC Code to Access Relational Data
Impact on an Audience
What you say How you SayWhat is seen
public static String getMessage (int messageId) throws MessageException {
Connection c = null; PreparedStatement p = null; String text = null;
try {
Class.forName(“com.mysql..jdbc.driver");
c = DriverManager.getConnection( "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/sample", “root", “admin");
p = c.prepareStatement( "select * from message");
ResultSet rs = p.executeQuery();
while(rs.next()) {
text = rs.getString(1); }
return text;
} catch (Exception e) {
log.log(Level.SEVERE, "Could not acquire message", e);
throw new RunTimeException( "Failed to retrieve message from the database.", e);
} finally {
if (p != null) {
try {
p.close();
} catch (SQLException e) {
log.log(Level.WARNING, "Could not close ostensibly open statement.", e);
}
} if (c != null) {
try {
c.close();
} catch (SQLException e) {
log.log(Level.WARNING, "Could not close ostensibly open connection.", e);
}
}
}
}

JDBC as a Persistence Solution
• Programming with JDBC requires usage of semantics of the database world.
• JDBC code has its own rules and concerns, which are not aligned with the
business domain.
• Application development should mostly focus on problems in the application
domain, which is the business logic.
• Writing simple JDBC code may be relatively easy, but for complex issues like
caching and clustering, JDBC does not offer anything.
• JDBC code makes business logic developer worry about persistence issues.

EJB Entity Beans as a Persistence Solution
• CMP entity beans require a one-to-one mapping to database tables.
• They do not directly support inheritance relationships.
• They are (by reputation, at least) slow.
• Someone has to determine which bean field maps to which table column.
• They require special method names. If these are not followed correctly, they
will fail silently.
• Entity beans have to reside within a J2EE application server environment—
they are a heavyweight solution.
• They cannot readily be extracted as "general purpose" components for other
applications.
• They are not serializable.
• They rarely exist as portable components to be dropped into a foreign
application—you generally have to roll your own EJB solution.

Hibernate
• Hibernate is an open source ORM framework that is a pioneer and market
leader.
• Hibernate provides ORM solution which is compatible with the latest Java
Persistence API (JPA) specifications.
• Provides transparent persistence, allowing the application to switch between
database vendors or even persistence mechanism.
• Provides complete separation of concerns between domain business logic
and persistence.
• No need to implement any hibernate specific interfaces, APIs or extend
classes from within the domain objects.

Hibernate Architecture

• Applications make use of Hibernate through the interfaces which it provides.
• Hibernate makes itself accessible to the application at the following levels.
• Configuration: Allowing application to configure hibernate.
• Persistence: Allowing application to persist its domain object
over a session in a transaction. Or to retrieve using queries.
• Callback: Allowing application to keep track of hibernate
events.
• Extension: Allowing application to add UserTypes,
IdentifierGenerator.

ApplicationLayer
Application Domain Objects (POJO)
Configuration Layer
Persistence Layer
(Session, Transaction, Query,
SessionFactory)
Hibernate
Extensions
Application
Database
Callback Layer
(Interceptor, Validatable, Lifecycle)
Dialect JDBC

Hibernate Interfaces
• Major interfaces of concern in Hibernate are:
• Session
• SessionFactory
• Configuration
• Transaction
• Query
• Callback
• Types
• Extension

Session Interface
• Primary interface used by application when interacting with hibernate.
• Found in the package org.hibernate.
• Light weight interface that acts as a persistence manager.
• It is not thread safe and so should be used one per thread.
• Represents one unit of work. In web invocation terms, can be mapped to
one client request.
• The basic level of object cache in Hibernate.

SessionFactory
• Acts as Factory to the Session objects.
• SessionFactory used across the application.
• One SessionFactory per database.
• Can provide second level of cache for objects across sessions.

Configuration
• Used for configuring the Hibernate.
• Provides access to the configured SessionFactory.

Transaction
• An optional API, applications can use its own transaction infrastructure if
desired.
• Provides abstraction over lower level transaction implementation either via
JDBC or JTA.

Query
• Used for querying database to retrieve objects.
• Provides way to set query parameters and limit result size.
• Comes with a Criteria interface to filter search.

Callback
• Allows applications to keep track of the events happening in Hibernate.
• Interceptor can be used to react to lifecycle events.

Types
• Hibernate Types map to the java types of the data stored in the database.
• UserType and CompositeUserType can be used to add domain specific types
to hibernate.

Extension
• Allows extending hibernate functionalities.
• Commonly used extension interfaces are IdentifierGenerator and Dialect.

The Persistence Lifecycle

Lifecycle of Persistence Objects
• The application domain objects (POJO) are the persistent objects.
• The persistence object can be in one of the three states:
• Transient
• Persistent
• Detached

Lifecycle of Persistent Object
Garbage
collected
Transient
Persistent
Detached
new
get()
load()
find()
iterate()
evict()
close()
clear()
update()
saveOrUpdat
e()
lock()
save()
saveOrU
pdate()
delete()

Transient Objects
• Any application domain object created using a new() operator is a transient
object and as such a plain java object.
• Any state in such an object is not associated with any database table row.
• If such an object is destroyed without becoming persistent, then no data held
by the object is stored in the database.
• For an object to move from transient state to persistent state requires a call to
save() method of the Persistence Manager.

Persistent Objects
• An object with its database identifier set is a persistent object.
• Persistent object is always part of a session and is transactional.
• A persistent object can be created by calling save() on the Persistence
Manager.
• Persistent object might be an instance retrieved from the database using
a query.
• Persistent objects participate in transactions and its state is synchronized
with the database at the end of transaction.

Persistent Objects (contd.)
• When transaction is committed, Persistent object is synchronized with the
database using INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE.
• Persistent object may also be synchronized with database before
execution of a query to get latest data from the database into memory.

Detached Objects
• A domain object is persistent only in the scope of the session in which it
was created.
• If the session is closed using Session.close() then all persistent objects
that are still referenced after close() are in detached state.
• They are no longer associated with any transaction and will not be
synchronized with the database.
• The data contained in such objects may not be the latest.

Object Identity
• In Java, objects are often compared for equality using object identity
(a==b)
• A persistent object may also require comparison of its database identifier,
to establish identity.
• Concept of transient, persistent and detached objects provides different
scopes for objects within which their identities may differ.

Object Identity (contd.)
• Hibernate supports Transaction-Identity scope.
• If a persistent object is accessed multiple times within a same
transaction, then hibernate ensures that the same instance is always
returned.
• This ensures that within a transaction, application works on the same
data.
• Once a transaction is committed and a session is closed, the resulting
detached object is no longer in the transactional scope.

Object Identity (contd.)
• Equality between to persistent objects can be best established by proper
implementation of equals() method in the domain class.
• Typical implementation of equals() method will be as follows:-
public class Person {
public boolean equals(Object other) {
if(this == other){
return true;
}
if(id == null){
return false;
}
if(!(other instanceof Person)){
return false;
}
Person person = (Person) other;
return this.id.equals(person.getId());
}
}

Getting Started with Hibernate

Hello World
• Create a table called ‘message’:
CREATE TABLE message (
message_id INTEGER UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
text VARCHAR(50) NULL,
PRIMARY KEY(message_id)
);

Hello World
• Create a domain class called ‘Message’:
package com.csc.training.sample.model;
public class Message {
private Long id;
private String message;
public Message(){}
public Message(String message){
this.message = message;
}
public Long getId() {
return id;
}
public void setId(Long id) {
this.id = id;
}
public String getMessage() {
return message;
}
public String setMessage(String message) {
return this.message = message;
}
}

Hello World
• Create a class and property mapping file called ‘Message.hbm.xml’ and
place it in the classpath:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-mapping>
<class name="com.csc.training.sample.model.Message" table="message">
<id name="id" column="message_id">
<generator class="increment"/>
</id>
<property name="message" column="text"/>
</class>
</hibernate-mapping>

Hello World
• Create a Data Access Object (DAO) class called ‘MessageDAO’:
package com.csc.training.sample.dao;
import org.hibernate.Session;
import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
import org.hibernate.Transaction;
import org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration;
import com.csc.training.sample.model.Message;
public class MessageDAO {
public void createMessage(String msg){
Session session = getSessionFactory().openSession();
Transaction tx = session.beginTransaction();
Message message = new Message(msg);
session.save(message);
tx.commit();
session.close();
}
private SessionFactory getSessionFactory() {
Configuration configuration = new Configuration();
configuration.addResource("com/csc/training/sample/model/Message.hbm.xml");
return configuration.buildSessionFactory();
}
}

Hello World
• Create a Test class of the DAO called ‘MessageDAOTest’:
package com.csc.training.sample.dao;
public class MessageDAOTest {
public static void main(String[] args){
MessageDAO dao = new MessageDAO();
dao.createMessage("Hello World");
}
}

Hello World
• Create the configuration file called ‘hibernate.properties’:
hibernate.connection.driver_class=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
hibernate.connection.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/sample
hibernate.connection.username=root
hibernate.connection.password=admin
hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect

Hello World
• Add following jars to classpath:
• antlr-2.7.6.jar
• asm.jar
• cglib-2.1.3.jar
• commons-collections.jar
• commons-logging-1.1.jar
• dom4j-1.6.1.jar
• hibernate3.jar
• jta.jar
• mysql-connector-java-3.0.9-stable-bin.jar
• oscache-2.3.2.jar

Hello World
• Run the app with main method in the MessageDAOTest class.
• The data should be inserted in the database.

Hibernate Relationships and
Associations

Data relationships
• Most of the data found in application domain are related to each other.
• Relational databases are efficient in mapping these relations using foreign
keys.
• Using Hibernate to map to such data from the object model requires special
consideration.
• The types of relations typically observed in the relational database world
are:
• One-to-One relationship
• One-to-Many relationship
• Many-to-One relationship
• Many-to-Many relationship

Object associations
• In the world of OOP the relations between entities are more commonly
implemented using associations that can be:
• Composition
• Inheritance

One-to-One relations using foreign key
• The relational data can have a one-to-one relationship as can be seen
between a person and her address.

• In this case the domain object model will have a corresponding Person class
referencing an Address object as a property.
• When a Persistent instance of Person class is loaded, the persistent instance
of its referenced Address instance should also be loaded appropriately.
• To enable this, the two classes should be mapped appropriately.

package com.sample.hibernate.model;
public class Person {
private int id;
private Address billingAddress;
private String name;
public boolean equals(Object
other){
if(this==other)return true;
if(id==null) return false;
if(!(other instanceof Person))
return false;
Person person = (Person)
other;
return
this.id.equals(person.getId());
}
}
package com.sample.hibernate.model;
public class Address {
private String lane;
private String city;
private String state;
}

• For foreign key association, Hibernate does not distinguish between One-
to-One and One-to-many relations and in this case we use the <many-
to-one> tag for mapping the one-to-one relation.
• In this example, the mapping file for Person class will have the following
entry:
<many-to-one name="billingAddress"
class="com.sample.hibernate.mode.Address"
column="Address_id"
cascade="save-update"/>
Person.hbm.xml

One-to-One relations using foreign key (Bi-
directional)
• In the previous example, there was only one way navigation from Person
to Address.
• If we would like to go back to Person instance from Address, then there
should be a reference to Person in Address class, which will be mapped
as follows.
<one-to-one name=“person"
class="com.sample.hibernate.mode.Person"
property-ref=“billingAddress"/>
Address.hbm.xml
• This will ensure that the Address instance will hold reference to its
appropriate Person instance so that bi-directional navigation can be
achieved.

One-to-One relations using primary key
• The one-to-one relation can also be established through primary key
association.
• The primary key will also act as a foreign key in this case

• In this case it must be ensured that the newly created Address objects
have the same key as the Person for which it is created.
• The mappings in this case will be:
Person.hbm.xml
<one-to-one name="billingAddress"
class="com.sample.hibernate.mode.Address"
cascade="save-update"/>
Address.hbm.xml
<one-to-one name=“person"
class="com.sample.hibernate.mode.Person"
constrained=“true"/>
• Constrained attribute tells Hibernate that the Address has a foreign key
constraint on its primary key and it refers to the Person primary key.

• To ensure that newly saved Address instances are assigned the same
primary key as that of the person, a special identifier-generator needs to
be used.
Address.hbm.xml
<class name="com.sample.hibernate.mode.Address"
table="Address">
<id name="id" column="Person_id" >
<generator class="foreign">
<param name="property">
person
</param>
</generator>
</id>
• The property “person” of the new Address object is used to get the
identifier which is assigned to the Address identifier.

One-to-Many relations - Unidirectional
• For unidirectional navigation, the item class will hold a collection of bids.
• The relationship will be mapped using the <set> element.
Item.hbm.xml
<set name="bids“ table=“Bid”>
<key column="Item_ID"/>
<one-to-many class="Bid"/>
</set>

One-to-Many relations – Bidirectional
• For bidirectional navigation, the Bid class will hold the item for which the
bid is created.
• The item property can be mapped as follows.
Bid.hbm.xml
<many-to-one name=“item"
column="Item_ID“
class=“Item”
not-null=“true"/>

Many-to-Many relations - Unidirectional
• A many to many relation should ideally make use of a link table.
• The link table will have foreign keys to the primary keys of the original
table.

Many-to-Many relations - Unidirectional
• The category class in this case will hold reference to the Item in
the form of collection of value types.
• The link table will have foreign keys to the primary keys of the
original table.
Category.hbm.xml
<set name="items"
table="CATEGORY_ITEM"
lazy="true"
cascade="save-update“>
<key column="category_id"/>
<many-to-many class="Item" column="Item_ID"/>
</set>

Many-to-Many relations - Bidirectional
• Item class holds reference to categories as well.
Item.hbm.xml
<set name=“categories"
table="CATEGORY_ITEM"
lazy="true“
inverse=“true”
cascade="save-update"
<key column=“Item_ID"/>
<many-to-many class=“Category“
column=“Category_ID"/>
</set>

Advanced Mapping Concepts

Hibernate type system
• When working with hibernate, we have to deal with two data
types:
• The data type of the underlying database
• The Java data types
• The Java types need to be mapped to the data types in the
database
• In the mapping files, the types are mapped as follows
• <property name=“email” column=“EMAIL” type=“string”/>

Built-in mapping types
 Hibernate comes with in built-in mapping types for various Java and SQL
types
CHAR(1) (‘T’ or ‘F’)Boolean or java.lang.BooleanTrue_false
CHAR(1) (‘Y’ or ‘N’)Boolean or java.lang.BooleanYes_no
BITBoolean or java.lang.BooleanBoolean
TINYINTByte or java.lang.ByteByte
VARCHARJava.lang.StringString
CHAR(1)Java.lang.StringCharacter
NUMERICJava.math.BigDecimalBig_decimal
DOUBLEDouble or java.lang.DoubleDouble
SMALLINTShort or java.lang.ShortShort
BIGINTLong or java.lang.LongLong
INTEGERInt or java.lang.Integerinteger
SQL typeJava typeMapping type

 The built in data type for dates and times are
DATEJava.util.CalendarCalendar_date
TIMESTAMPJava.util.CalendarCalendar
TIMESTAMPJava.util.Date or
java.sql.Timestamp
Timestamp
TIMEJava.util.Date or java.sql.TimeTime
DATEJava.util.Date or java.sql.DateDate

 The built in data type for large object mappings are
BLOBJava.sql.BlobBlob
CLOBJava.sql.ClobClob
VARBINARY (or BLOB)Any java class that implements
Serializable
Serializable
CLOBJava.lang.StringText
VARBINARY (or BLOB)Byte[]Binary
 The java.sql.Blob or java.sql.Clob may be the most efficient way of
handling large objects
 But these may not be supported by drivers for all databases
 If a Blob or Clob is referenced in a persistent class, then they will
only be available in a transaction and not when it is in detached
state

Mapping Inheritance
 Inheritance is a very powerful OOP concept and is used quite often in
applications
 Relational database does not support inheritance. It only establishes
relations using foreign keys
 For scenarios where the application domain object has an inheritance type
of relationship, there are a few things to be considered while creating the
mapping.

 Consider a case where an application has multiple billing options
 Credit card
 Bank account
 In this case, the user name and details are same, only the type specific
details differ
CreditCard
Type:int
expMonth:String
expYr:String
BankAccount
Name:String
Swift:string
BillingDetails
Owner:String
number:String
Created:Date
Mapping Inheritance

 One of the strategies that can be applied is Table per concrete class
 In this case, the user name and details are same, only the type specific
details differ
 This is a little inefficient as two queries are needed to fetch the details
Table per Concrete Class

 Another strategy that can be applied is table per hierarchy
 A single table representing all the details
 Although there is a single table the classes will still be separate
Table per Hierarchy

 The mappings for the table per hierarchy will make use of the <subclass>
element
 This approach requires all properties of credit card and bank details to be
nullable.
<hibernate-mapping>
<class name="BillingDetails“ table="BillingDetails">
<id name="id" column="BillingDetailsId">
<generator class="increment"></generator>
</id>
<discriminator column=“BILLINGTYPE” />
<subclass name="CreditCard" discriminator-value="CC">
<property name=“ccnumber" column=“number"/>
</subclass>
<subclass name="BankAc" discriminator-value="Bank">
<property name=“acnumber” column=“number”/>
</subclass>
</class>
</hibernate-mapping>
Table per Hierarchy

 Another strategy that can be applied is table per subclass
 The tables contain only the required columns and a foreign key to
the BillingDetails
 The foreign key also acts as the primary key of the table
Table per Subclass

 A <joined-subclass> element is used to indicate table-per subclass mapping
<class name="BillingDetails“ table="Billing_Details">
<id name="id" column="id">
<generator class="increment“/>
</id>
<joined-subclass name="CreditCard" table="CreditCardDetails">
<key column="Billing_Details_Id"/>
<property name="cctype" column="cctype"/>
</joined-subclass>
<joined-subclass name=“BankAc" table=“BankAcDetails">
<key column="Billing_Details_Id"/>
<property name=“swift" column=“swift"/>
</joined-subclass>
</class>
Table per Subclass

Hibernate Queries

Queries
• Queries are most important for writing good data access code
• Hibernate provides extensive support for querying using its Query
interface
• Hibernate uses powerful language Query Language called HQL
(Hibernate Query Language)
• Queries are in terms of classes and properties and not tables and
columns
• Hibernate also supports execution of native SQL queries

Queries
• Queries can be created on a session
• Query hqlQuery = session.createQuery(“from Person”);
• Queries support pagination by limiting results
• Query query = session.createQuery(“from User”);
Query.setFirstResult(0);
Query.setMaxResults(10);

Queries:Example
Query query = session.createQuery("from Employees");
query.setFirstResult(1);
query.setMaxResults(10);
List<Employees> empList = query.list();
for( Employees e:empList)
{
System.out.println( e );
}

Queries
• Queries use the Criteria interface for filtering
searches based on criteria
• Session.createCriteria(Category.class).add(Expression.like(“
name”, “Laptop%”));
• list() method executes the created query and
returns the results as a list
• List result = session.createQuery(“from User”).list();

Queries:Example
public static void criteriaTest(Session session) {
session.getTransaction().begin();
Criteria criteria = session.createCriteria(Departments.class);
criteria.add(Restrictions.eq("departmentName",
"Accounting"));
List<Departments> departmentList = criteria.list();
for (Departments d : departmentList) {
System.out.println(d);
}
session.getTransaction().commit();
}

Named Queries
• Named queries help in avoiding HQL queries to be located within Java
files.
• The queries to be used in an application can be externalized in an XML
mapping file.
• The desired query can be referred to by the name.
• The getNamedQuery() method is used to obtain a Query instance for a
named query given its name.
• Named queries allow easier optimization of queries.
session.getNamedQuery("findItemsByDescription").
setString("description", description).list();
<query name="findItemsByDescription">
<![CDATA[from Item item where item.description like :description]]>
</query>

Named Queries:Example
public static void findDeptByName(Session session) {
List<Departments> departmentList =
session.getNamedQuery("findDepartmentByName")
.setString("deptName", "Accounting").list();
Departments d = departmentList.get(0);
System.out.println(d);
}
departments.hbm.xml
<query name="findDepartmentByName">
<![CDATA[from Departments d where d.departmentName = :deptName]]>
</query>

The Query API
 The Query interface of hibernate is used for retrieving the data from
database
 Criteria interface is for specifying query criteria
 Query hquery = session.createQuery()
 Criteria crit = session.createCriteria()

Binding Parameters
 For passing parameters to a query, the following approaches can be used
 Named Parameter
 Positional Parameter
 Named Parameter
 Allows you to specify the name of the expected parameter
 String query = “from Item where description like :searchString”
 In this case “searchString” is the named parameter
 Query qu = session.createQuery(query).
setString(“searchString”, searchString);

Binding Parameters:Example
public static void bindingParameter(Session session) {
String sql = "from Employees where employeeId = :empID";
Query query = session.createQuery(sql);
query.setInteger("empID", 100);
Employees e = (Employees) query.uniqueResult();
System.out.println(e);
ses

 Positional Parameter
 Allows you to specify the parameter position using “?” like prepared
statements
 String query = “from Item item where item.description like ? and
item.date > ?”
 Query qu = session.createQuery(query).setString(0,
searchString).setDate(1,minDate);
Binding Parameters
 As seen in the above examples, the setString() and setDate() methods were
used, Hibernate also allows setting of various other types as well as entity:
Session.createQuery(“from item where item.seller = :seller”).
setEntity(“seller”, seller);

public static void bindingParameter1(Session session) {
String sql = "from Employees where departments = :dept";
Query query = session.createQuery(sql);
short s =50;
query.setEntity("dept",session.get(Departments.class, s ) );
List<Employees> empList = query.list();
for(Employees e:empList)
{ System.out.println(e );
// System.out.println(e.getDepartments()); }
session.close();
}
Binding Parameters:Example

Ordering query results
 For ordering the results obtained from queries, Hibernate provides order
by clause
 “from User u order by u.username”
 “from User u order by u.username desc”
 The Criteria API also provides ordering
 Session.createCriteria(User.class).
addOrder(Order.asc(“lastname”));

Association
 The hibernate query language supports performing queries on associations
 Join can be used to combine data in two (or more) relations
 HQL provides four ways of expressing joins
 An ordinary join in the from clause
 A fetch join in the from clause
 An implicit association join
 A theta-style join in the where clause

 A fetch join can be used to specify that an association should be eagerly
fetched
from Item item join fetch item.bids
where item.description like “%computer%”;
Fetch Join
 An alias can be to make query less verbose
from Item item join fetch item.bids bid
where item.description like “%computer%”
and bid.amount > 100;
 We can do the same thing using the Criteria API
session.createCriteria(Item.class).
setFetchMode(“bids”, FetchMode.EAGER).
add(Expression.like(“description”, “computer”,
MatchMode.ANYWHERE).
list();

Implicit Association
 HQL supports multipart property path expressions for two purposes:
 Querying components
from User u where u.address.city=“city”
Session.createCriteria(User.class).
add(Expression.eq(“address.city”, ”city”);
 Expressing implicit association joins
from Bid bid where bid.item.description like ‘%computer%’;
 Implicit joins are directed towards only on many-to-one or
one-to-one association.
 Its available only on HQL

Theta Style Join
• Theta style joins are to perform joins between two un-associated
classes:
from User , Category (Cartesian Product)
from User user, Category category where user.username =
category.createdBy;
• This will return an Object[] with 2 elements
• Object[0] -> User
• Object[1] -> Category

Aggregation
 The hibernate query language supports performing various aggregation of
the results
 The supported aggregation functions are
 avg(...), sum(...), min(...), max(...)
 count(*), count(...), count(distinct ...)
 count(all...)
Select count(*) from Item
Select sum(amount) from Bid

Grouping
 Any property or alias appearing in an HQL outside the aggregate function
can be used for grouping results
select u.lastname, count(u) from User u group by u.lastname
Here the results will be grouped according the user’s last name.
 Grouping can be restricted using the having clause
select u.lastname, count(u) from User u group by u.lastname having
user.lastname like ‘A%’

Sub-queries
 In the databases that support sub-selects, Hibernate supports sub-queries
 Sub-queries allow a select query to be embedded in another query
from User u where 10 <
(select count(i) from u.items I where i.successfulBid is not null)
This returns all the users who have bid successfully more than 10 times.

Native Queries
 Hibernate provides support for making use of native SQL queries instead of
HQL.
 The SQL query results return the entity instance just like hibernate queries.

Native Queries
 SQL query may return multiple entity instances
 SQL query may return multiple instances of same entity
 Hibernate needs to distinguish between different entities
 Hibernate uses a naming scheme for the result column aliases to correctly
map column values to the properties of particular instances

Scalar Queries
• SQL queries can be used to return a list of scalars
String sql = “select * from appuser”;
sesssion.createSQLQuery(sql)
.addScalar("username", Hibernate.STRING)
.addScalar("name", Hibernate.STRING)
.list();
• This will return the scalar values as List of Object[]

Entity Queries
• Hibernate can also allow you to obtain Entity instances using SQL
queries
• The SQL queries will need to be supplied with the Entity that represents
the table
String sql = “select * from address”;
Session.createSQLQuery(sql).addEntity(Address.class);

Handling Associations
• When an entity has a many-to-one relation with another, then it is
required to return the association or else a column not found error will
be returned.
• A * notation will return the association
String sql = "select * from user";
session.createSQLQuery(sql)
.addEntity(User.class)
.list();

Returning Non-Managed Entities
• SQL can be used to return non-managed entities
• The entity instances returned may not reflect the latest values over a
session
String sql = "select lane, city from address where city like ?";
session.createSQLQuery(sql)
.setResultTransformer(
Transformers.aliasToBean(Address.class))
.setString(0, cityName)
.list();

Named SQL Query
• SQL queries can be written externally and accessed in the code
• Named queries allow more flexibility to modify queries
<sql-query name="cityQuery">
<return-scalar column="city" type="string"/>
<return-scalar column="lane" type="string"/>
<![CDATA[
SELECT a.city AS city, a.lane AS lane
FROM Address a
WHERE a.city LIKE :cityName
]]>
</sql-query>

Stored Procedure
• Hibernate from version 3 introduces support for queries via stored
procedures and functions.
• The stored procedure/ function must return a resultset as the first out-
parameter to be able to work with Hibernate.
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION selectAllEmployments
RETURN SYS_REFCURSOR
AS
st_cursor SYS_REFCURSOR;
BEGIN
OPEN st_cursor FOR
SELECT EMPLOYEE, EMPLOYER, STARTDATE, ENDDATE,
REGIONCODE, EID, VALUE, CURRENCY
FROM EMPLOYMENT;
RETURN st_cursor;
END;

Stored Procedure
• To use the stored procedure, map it through a named query
<sql-query name="selectAllEmployees_SP" callable="true">
<return alias="emp" class="Employment">
<return-property name="employee" column="EMPLOYEE"/>
<return-property name="employer" column="EMPLOYER"/>
<return-property name="startDate" column="STARTDATE"/>
<return-property name="endDate" column="ENDDATE"/>
<return-property name="regionCode" column="REGIONCODE"/>
<return-property name="id" column="EID"/>
<return-property name="salary">
<return-column name="VALUE"/>
<return-column name="CURRENCY"/>
</return-property>
</return>
{ ? = call selectAllEmployments() }
</sql-query>

Custom SQL
• Hibernate3 can use custom SQL statements for create, update, and
delete operations
• The class and collection persisters in Hibernate already contain a set of
configuration time generated strings (insertsql, deletesql, updatesql etc)
• The mapping tags <sql-insert>, <sql-delete>, and <sql-update> override
these strings

Custom SQL
• The custom SQL script can also invoke a stored procedure if any
• <sql-insert callable="true">
{call createUser (?, ?)}
</sql-insert>
• <sql-delete callable="true">
{? = call deleteUser (?)}
</sql-delete>
• The positioning of parameters are important and should be as per what
Hibernate expects

Hibernate Transactions

Transaction
• Most enterprise applications working with the database systems need
to make use of transactions for data integrity
• In an application program, the database transactions should be of as
short duration as possible
• Ideally, the transaction should be in affect when the application is
dealing with the database and not when it is interacting with the user

Transaction
• Java through JDBC and J2EE though JTA have provided powerful support
for transactions.
• Hibernate acts as a client to the JDBC and JTA transactions, allowing the
application to make use of the features while not worrying about the
technical complexities.

Hibernate Transaction API
• The Transaction interface of hibernate provides methods to define the
transaction boundaries
• The transaction is created on the session
• Transaction tx = session.beginTransaction();
• The commit() method makes performs the database commit
• tx.commit();
• In case of failure, rollback() method should be used to rollback the
changes
• tx.rollback();

Flushing Hibernate Session
• Changes made to persistent object in a session are stored in memory
• Session implements transaction write behind whereby the changes are
written to database in a transparent manner and to reduce database
access
• Flushing of state occurs in the following cases
• When a transaction is committed
• Before a query is executed
• When application calls session.flush()

Transaction Isolation Levels
• The transaction isolation levels attempt to segregate concurrent
transactions and their view of the database state
• The isolation levels are implemented by the database vendors, either
using locking or multi-version concurrency control
• Hibernate makes use of the underlying database implementation and
does not on its own add any semantics

Optimistic locking in application
• Most enterprise applications prefer to use optimistic locking
• Optimistic locking assumes there won’t be any conflicts and data will
not be updated simultaneously
• Optimistic locking can be implemented by using Version number or
TimeStamp
• When using Version, a column should be added to the table and
mapped to a property in the POJO class
<version name=“version” column=“VERSION” />
• Whenever the object is changed, hibernate will automatically update
the version number

Optimistic locking in application
• When a transaction retrieves an object, its version number is also
fetched
• While the object is in detached state, if the corresponding record is
updated by another transaction, then the version number in the
detached object will be older
• Any update issued for this detached object will result in failure since the
update query will check for the current version in table to be same as
the version number in the detached instance, which will fail with
StaleObjectStateException

Example
hibernate.transaction.factory_class
net.sf.hibernate.transaction.JDBCTransactionFactory
net.sf.hibernate.transaction.JTATransactionFactory
hibernate.transaction.manager_lookupclass
Vendor specific and you only need to specify the manager lookup class when
you're using a transactional cache.
net.sf.hibernate.transaction.JbossTransactionManagerLookup
net.sf.hibernate.transaction.WeblogicTransactionManagerLookup

Conversation
To disconnect from the database server, we execute the code:
session.disconnect();
At this point, session object is still valid and will be tracking any changes we
make to the objects previously loaded to the application through the
Session object;
When the application gets control back, it will reconnect to the database
using the code: session.reconnect();

Hibernate Extensions

Custom Mapping Types
 Hibernate allows creation of custom value types for the application
domain
 Some of the data in the database may be stored within multiple columns,
but in the object model it may be better to represent it as a class
 Example, for a multi currency payment system, the data may be
stored as

 It may be desirable that the amount is always represented in the same
currency, say USD in a separate class like MonetaryAmount even though
the database has no support for it.
public class MonetaryAmount implements Serializable{
private final BigDecimal value;
private final Currency currency;
public MonetaryAmount(final BigDecimal value, final Currency currency) {
this.value = value;
this.currency = currency;
}
public Currency getCurrency() {
return currency;
}
public BigDecimal getValue() {
return value;
}
public boolean equals(Object o){ …… }
public int hashCode() { …… }
public static MonetoryAmount convert(MonetoryAmount sourceAmount, Currency
targetCurrency){…… }
}

Custom Mapping Type
 To implement a custom user type, the type class needs to
implement the interface org.hibernate.usertype.UserType
public class MonetaryAmountUserType implements UserType {
private static final int[] SQL_TYPES = {Types.NUMERIC};
public int[] sqlTypes() { return SQL_TYPES;}
public Class retunedClass() { return MonetoryAmount.class;}
public boolean equals(Object x, Object y){
if(x == y) return true;
if(x == null || y == null) return false;
return x.equals(y);
}
public Object deepCopy(Object value) { return value;}
public Object isMutable() { return false;}
public Object nullSafeGet(ResultSet resultSet, String[] names, Object owner)
throws HibernateException, SQLException{
if(resultSet.wasNull()) return null;
BigDecimal valueInUSD = resultSet.getBigDecimal(names[0]);
return new MonetoryAmount(valueInUSD, Currency.getInstance(“USD”));
}

 To property with the custom type can now be mapped in the class as
below
<property name=“amount” column=“Amount”
type=“com.sample.hibernate.model. MonetaryAmountUserType”/>
public Object nullSafeSet(PreparedStatement statement, Object value,
int index)
throws HibernateException, SQLException{
if(value == null){
statement.setNull(index, Types.NUMERIC);
}else{
MonetoryAmount anyCurrency = (MonetoryAmount) value;
MonetoryAmount amountInUSD = MonetoryAmount.convert(
anyCurrency, Currency.getInstance(“USD”);
statement.setBigDecimal(index, amountInUSD.getValue());
}
}
}

Hibernate Cache
Hibernate Basics

Hibernate Cache
 One of the benefits of using Hibernate is its ability to cache the instances
 Caching of data in entity instances can provide great performance benefits
 Hibernate provides configurable caching, where each class can be
separately enabled for caching depending on its usage
 Hibernate provides caching at multiple levels

Session
First Level Cache
Second Level Cache
Cache
Strategy
Query Cache
Cache Provider
Hibernate Cache Architecture

 The hibernate cache provides caching at two levels
 The first level cache is the Session Cache which is enabled by default and
can not be disabled
 The second level cached can be chosen between
 Process Cache – shared between many unit of work (transaction)
 Clustered Cache –shared between multiple process on same/multiple
systems.
Hibernate Cache Architecture

First Level Cache
 All the persistence instances that are in Persistent state stay in the First
Level Cache
 Changes made in a unit of work are cached in the first level cache
 Changes made to object are written to database only on flush()
 You can opt to not keep data in first level cache by using evict() method
 Not useful for application that deal with bulk or large quantity of data. In
such case, we are better off using plain SQL or stored procedures

Second Level Cache
 The second level cache is at a higher level and allow data to be shared
across the application if opting for Process cache
 The cluster cache is across multiple servers and relies on remote
communication to synchronize the cache
 The second level cache stores data in the form of values
 A Class can be enabled for caching by indicating it in the mapping file
 Disable second level cache by setting
hibernate.cache.use_second_level_cache = false in hibernate.cfg.xml

Example
To eanable caching include
<property
name="hibernate.cache.provider_class">org.hibernate.cache.EhCacheProvi
der</property>
In hibernate.cfg.xml file.
Create ehcache.xml file
it may be hbm specific or a default one.

<class
name="example.survey.Survey“ table="SURVEYS">
<cache usage="read-write"/>
<class>
Read-Only Cache Usage
If your application’s Session object will be loading various classes and the
classes don’t and won’t
change during the execution of the application, you can use the read-only
cache usage.
Else read-write

Query Cache
To enable query cache use
hibernate.cache.use_query_cache=”true” in hibernate.cfg.xml
Session session = SessionFactory.openSession();
Query query = session.createQuery("from Survey");
query.setCacheable(true);
query.setCacheRegion("surveys");
List users = query.list();
SessionFactory.closeSession();

Controlling second level cache
You can manage the SessionFactory second-level cache using the following
methods:
public void evict(Class class);
public void evict(Class class, Serializable id);
public void evictCollection(String name);
public void evictCollection(String name, Serializable id);
The primary role of each of these methods is to permanently remove objects
from the cache.

Controlling session cache
public void evict(Object object);
Clears the object from the cache
public void clear();
Clears entire cache.
boolean contains(Object object);
Returns true/false

When not to use caching
If your database is being modified by multiple applications, then Hibernate
won’t be able to ensure that the data is valid.
Some data is retrieved and then not reused so that the data expires from the
cache. In this case,there is no point in caching the information and taking
up more memory.
You’re loading very large numbers of objects. If you’re loading and parsing
millions of objects then there may not be enough memory available to
cache them.

Filters
Dynamic data filtering is related to data security.
<class name="Item" table="ITEM">
...
<filter name="limitItemsByUserRank"
condition=":currentUserRank >=
(select u.RANK from USER u
where u.USER_ID = SELLER_ID)"/>
</class>
Filter filter = session.enableFilter("limitItemsByUserRank");
filter.setParameter("currentUserRank", loggedInUser.getRanking());

Interceptor
• An interceptor can be used to intercept the existing business functionality
to provide extensible or add-on features
• They provide pluggable architecture and are generally callback methods
that will be called by the framework in response to a particular set of
events/actions if properly registered and configured.
• Example
EmptyInterceptor override
public boolean onSave(Object entity,
Serializable id,
Object[] state,
String[] propertyNames,
Type[] types)
throws CallbackException {
}

And
public boolean onFlushDirty(Object entity,Serializable id,Object[]
currentState, Object[] previousState, String[] propertyNames,
Type[] types) throws CallbackException {
}

Projection
The ability to retrieve only properties of an entity or entities, without the
overhead of loading the entity itself into the persistence context. This is
sometimes called a report query; it is more correctly called projection.
Criteria crit = sess.createCriteria(ClassName.class);
ProjectionList proList = Projections.projectionList();
proList.add(Projections.property(“prop1"));
proList.add(Projections.property(“prop2"));
crit.setProjection(proList);
List list = crit.list();

N+1 selection problem
The following example code tries to find the highest Bids for all Items
List<Item> allItems = session.createQuery("from Item").list(); 1 query n rows
Map<Item, Bid> highestBids = new HashMap<Item, Bid>();
for (Item item : allItems) {
Bid highestBid = null;
for (Bid bid : item.getBids() ) { // Initialize the collection 1 qery
if (highestBid == null)
highestBid = bid;
if (bid.getAmount() > highestBid.getAmount())
highestBid = bid;
}
highestBids.put(item, highestBid);
}

Solution
A first solution could be a change of your global mapping metadata for the
collection, enabling prefetching in batches:
<set name="bids"
inverse="true"
batch-size="10">
<key column="ITEM_ID"/>
</set>
•2nd
strategy fetch="join“
•fetch="subselect“ one query to find all the items 2nd
to fetch all the bids

The Cartesian product problem
This Cartesian product problem always appears if you try to fetch several
“parallel” collections
<class name="Item">
...
<set name="bids"inverse="true“ fetch="join">
</set>
<set name="images“ fetch="join">
<composite-element class="Image">...
</set>
</class>

select item.*, bid.*, image.*
from ITEM item
left outer join BID bid on item.ITEM_ID = bid.ITEM_ID
left outer join ITEM_IMAGE image on item.ITEM_ID = image.ITEM_ID

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