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General

• Why This Project Is Successful?
• UserQuotes
• Who uses Hibernate
• Benchmarks
• Supported Databases
• HQL BNF
• Extension Points

Hibernate Search

• Hibernate Search Community Area

NHibernate

• NHibernate Resources
• The Old NHibernate Wiki
• Using NHibernate with ASP.NET
• Configuring log4net for use with NHibernate
• NHibernate explained by example
• NHibernate Troubleshooting Guide

Hibernate

Mapping and modeling design patterns

• Lightweight Class
• Delegate
• Composite Pattern
• Proxy Visitor Pattern (manipulate polymorphic lazy collections)
• A Short Primer On Fetching Strategies
• Equals and HashCode
• AspectJ Hibernate aspect
• Root Persistent Class
• Codegeneration with Root Persistent Class
• Bidirectional one-to-many with an indexed collection
• Hibernate and dynamic models
• Mapping XML Oracle types
• Mapping XML to Oracle XMLTYPE in IBM Webspshere platform
• Mapping Oracle XmlType to Document
• Mapping Spatial Oracle type SDO_GEOMETRY to JGeometry
• Mapping a Dynamic Proxy
• Mapping a Blob to a byte[]
• Mapping a Clob to a String
• Long Strings/CLOB/TEXT for MySQL
• Using Clobs/Blobs with Oracle and Hibernate
• CLOB/BLOB as linked list /(a platform independent blob/clob implementation strategy)
• Change Hibernate Discriminator

Transactional and system architecture design patterns

• Sessions and transactions
• Non-transactional data access and the auto-commit mode
• Open Session in View
• Generic Data Access Objects
• Session handling with AOP
• Hibernate Aware Action
• Defensive session handling ( as an alternative to ThreadLocal Session management )
• Hibernate in a Layered Architecture
• Distributed Objects With Hibernate
• Some explanations on lazy loading
• A case for insensitiveness
• Best Practices for Thick-Client Applications
• Remote Lazy Loading

Interceptors, user types, and other extensions

• NativeHiloGenerator
• Custom sequences
• Page View and User Tracking via Interceptors
• Common Aspect to set String in real life
• Chained Interceptor
• Complex Validations using Interceptor
• History Interceptor
• Audit Logging
• UserType for empty String escaping
• UserType for Polymorphic Associations
• UserType for persisting a Typesafe Enumeration with a VARCHAR column
• UserType for persisting Typesafe Enumerations with a single class
• UserType for persisting an Enum with a VARCHAR column
• UserType to persist Boolean as CHAR
• UserType for a byte[] identifier property
• UserType for audit info logging
• UserType for non-default TimeZone
• UserType for dealing with fixed length CHAR fields
• Java 5 EnumUserType
• Java 5 StringValuedEnumUserType

Security

• Security: JAAS LoginModule
• Security: Declarative permissions using JAAS and Interceptors
• Security: adding message digests via interceptors
• Security: Transparent encryption of persisted data (with Jasypt UserTypes)

Performance

• QueryCache
• Performance: Hibernate startup time
• Performance: Hibernate3 startup time
• Pagination
• Statistics Interpreter
• Batching and auto-evicting Criteria results

Tools

• MoreGen Free LGPL O/R Generator for NHibernate
• GENNIT NHibernate 1.2 DAL/ORM Code Generator
• NCache: NHibernate Level-2 OutProc and Distributed Cache
• Hibernate Tools Suite(standalone tool and/or NetBeans module)
• Ant tasks for creating, dropping or recreating the database schema
• iReport with hibernate support preview
• Linguine Maps programmatic visualization for Hibernate mapping files
• JXInsight for Hibernate 3.0/2.0 Trace and Profile Extension
• java.tri uml to hibernate
• hbm2java compability
• DB Visual Architect
• Old Tools Road Map
• OOMEGA :: Model-driven Software Engineering for Hibernate
• XDoclet for Hibernate
• XDoclet2 for Hibernate3 see also
• Maven, XDoclet and Hibernate
• Tigerstripe Workbench Plugin for Hibernate see also
• AndroMDA for Hibernate
• AndroMDA hbm Cartridge
• JNIUS for Hibernate
• Middlegen for Hibernate
• OpenXava
• IntelliJ IDEA Live Templates for Hibernate XDoclet-tags
• Ant task for hibernate.cfg.xml generation
• ObjectVisualizer for Hibernate
• JAG - Java Application Generator
• synon2hbm - Generate Hibernate mappings for Synon models
• Hibernate plugin for NetBeans 5.0
• iReport HQLFieldsReader and Jasper Reports build-in support for Hibernate
• Salto-db Generator (generate java code from database)
• Autofetch: specifies association fetches automatically see also

Application (Framework) Integration

• Publishing statistics through JMX
• HowTo configure the Proxool connection pool
• HowTo configure the C3P0 connection pool
• Hibernate in WSAD 5.x
• Hibernate in WAS 5.x - fixes possible deadlock problem
• Simple startup for EJBs with Hibernate
• A simple Hibernate + Tapestry application
• HibernatePlugIn for Struts
• Using Hibernate with JBoss
• Hibernate3 JBoss and XDoclet tips
• Using Hibernate with Tomcat
• Using JasperReports with Hibernate
• Using Lifecycles and Interceptors to update Lucene searches
• Hibernate Log4j Appender
• JCS Usage in Hibernate
• Using Tangosol Coherence Cache
• Free GigaSpaces Distributed Cache for Hibernate Users
• Very Simple EAR with Hibernate
• Hibernate inside PicoContainer
• Hibernate Transaction Manager with PicoContainer and Nanning
• HibernatePicofier - Using an Interceptor to Inject Dependencies into Persistent Objects
• Custom sql and Stored procedures
• HyperJAXB - relational persistence for XML objects with JAXB and Hibernate
• A Whirly Cache Plugin
• Use API for Configuration
• Dynamically configure Hibernate Entity Manager
• Use Oracle Object Types with Hibernate
• Hibernate and Eclipse Integration
• Teneo : from UML/XML Schema to Relational Persistence, Persisting Eclipse EMF using Hibernate
• Terracotta: Seamless Integration for High Performance Hibernate 2nd Level Cache & Detached Object Replication

Testing

• Testing with DBUnit
• Testing with Ant & Junit
• Testing with Maven
• Simple test case

Tutorials

• Using the second-level cache
• Some Parent-Child Principles

External Links/Documents

• Hibernate and XDoclet tutorial - How to generate Hibernate mapping files with XDoclet
• (Hibernate 3) LaLiLuna: What is Hibernate - a short introduction what Hibernate is, how it works and why you should use it.
• (Hibernate 3) LaLiLuna: Simple Hibernate example, including configuration for mySql, postgreSQL and log4j
• (Hibernate 3) LaLiLuna: Struts and Hibernate Integration - an extensive tutorial creating a working application.
• Smooth the Java Journey with Struts - Building a Struts application with Hibernate support
• Sleep Soundly with Hibernate - Using Hibernate with Eclipse and the iSeries
• Object to Relational Mapping and Relationships with Hibernate
• "Introduction to Hibernate", Lecture Slides, Acorn Bay Software
• Tanghan Eclipse Plugin for Hibernate(Chinese Language)
• Using OSCache and Hibernate
• How is it possible that Hibernate works ?
• The Petshop application using Hibernate, Spring and Tapestry
• The PetStore application using Hibernate, Spring and WebOnSwing
• Honeycomb, a session-per-conversation based integration of Tapestry and Hibernate Features a Maven2 Archetypes, for a ready-to-explore sample app. No Spring.
• Hibernate Resources - Articles, Books, Examples, Forums, Interview Transcripts, Presentations, Tips, Tutorials.
• W4Toolkit and Hibernate
• NHibernate - .NET port of Hibernate
• Hibernate development guide (in Chinese) - OpenDoc Series by Xiaxin
• Hibernate Querying 101 : tips and tricks : This article presents a few real-life tips and tricks for Hibernate querying.
• The Hibernate Query API : A tutorial introduction to the Hibernate Criteria API
• Advanced Hibernate-JasperReports integration
• Integrating Hibernate into a Wicket application in a four-layered architecture: A chapter in "Enjoying Web Development with Wicket".
• Integrating Hibernate into a Tapestry application in a four-layered architecture: A chapter in "Enjoying Web Development with Tapestry".
• Using NHibernate with Multiple Databases
• A series of tutorials covering most aspects of Hibernate
• Hibernate presentation with usage guidelines, Jazoon 07

Community work

• French Documentation Translation

For Hibernate Developers

• Hibernate Maven Usage
• Release checklist for Hibernate developers
• Working on Hibernate source with IntelliJ IDEA
• Continuous Integration