Hibernate

We looked at some of the core functionality provided by Hibernate, enough to help you build a complex application using Hibernate. However, as I indicated earlier, entire books have been written on this subject. Also, for legacy or complex applications, you probably want to include the more complex techniques provided by Hibernate. For example, you could investigate the following features of Hibernate a bit further:

• Component mapping

• Bidirectional associations

• Inheritance mapping

• Performance improvements

• Stored procedures

• Caching

For details on these and other Hibernate features, visit the hibernate.org website.