Persistence Frame Work:
1. Introduction to Hibernate

a) What is Hibernate?
b) Relational Database Technology
c) Accessing Relational Databases from Java
d) Domain Models
e) Comparing Object and Relational Models
f) Inheritance
g) What is Object/Relational Mapping?
h) Advantages of using an ORM Tool
i) Architecture of Hibernate
j) Hibernate API
k) Hibernate Configuration
l) Hibernate Mappings
m) Hibernate XML Configuration Files
n) Binding SessionFactory to JNDI
o) EJB Entity Beans
p) Hand-Coded Persistence Using JDBC

a) Creating the Domain Model
b) Domain Model
c) Domain Objects
d) Hibernate Requirements
e) Object Identity
f) Primary Keys
g) Natural Keys vs. Surrogate Keys
h) Identifier Property
i) Identifier Generators
j) Hibernate Managed Identifiers
k) Mapping Metadata
l) Mapping Properties
m) Using Database Schemas
n) Entity and Value Types
o) Components
p) Bi-Directional Components
q) Other Component Details
r) Association Mappings
s) Many-to-One Association
t) Inheritance Mapping Strategies
u) Table per Concrete Class
v) Table per Subclass
w) Table per Class Hierarchy

a) Object States
b) Transient Objects
c) Persistent Objects
d) Detached Objects
e) Object Identity
f) Persisting a Transient Object
g) Retrieving and Updating a Persistent Object
h) Deleting a Persistent Object
i) Updating a Detached Object
j) Using save-update
k) Differentiating Between Transient and Detached Objects
l) HQL Queries
m) Parameter Binding
n) Pagination
o) Named Queries
q) Polymorphic Queries
r) Restriction
s) String Comparison
t) Logical Operators
u) Ordering the Results
v) Join Queries
w) Implicit Joins
x) Where Clause Joins
y) Criteria Queries
z) Polymorphic Criteria Queries
aa) Restricting Criteria Queries
bb) Comparing Strings in Criteria Queries
cc) Ordering Results in Criteria Queries
dd) Using Joins in Criteria Queries

a) One-to-One Associations
b) Many-to-Many Associations
c) Polymorphic Associations
d) Entity vs. Value Types
e) Built-in Mapping Types
f) Using Mapping Types
g) Custom Mapping Types
h) Collections of Value Types
i) Bag of Value Types
j) List of Value Types
k) Map of Value Types
l) Collections of Components
m) Sorting Collections

a) Database Transactions
b) JDBC and JTA Transactions
c) Hibernate Transactions
d) Flushing the Hibernate Session
e) Isolation Issues
f) Isolation Levels
g) Configuring the Isolation Level
h) Pessimistic Locking
i) Application Transactions
j) Application Transaction Isolation
k) Caching
l) Hibernate Cache Architecture
n) The First-Level Cache
o) The Second-Level Cache
p) Cache Concurrency Strategies
q) Specifying a Cache Provider
r) Support for Cache Providers
s) Explicitly Evicting Objects from the Second-Level Cache
t) Fetching Strategies
u) Fetching Strategies in Mappings - Single Point Associations
v) Fetching Strategies in Mappings - Collections
w) Fetching Strategies in Mappings - Batches
x) Explicit Initialization of Lazily Loaded Objects
y) Fetching Strategies in HQL Queries
z) Fetching Strategies in Criteria Queries
aa) The N + 1 Selects Issue
bb) Report Queries - Projections
cc) Report Queries - Aggregation
dd) Report Queries – Grouping