Chapter 10. Performance

When you begin experimenting with Hibernate, one of the first tasks you are likely to perform is the installation of a monitor to see the generated SQL. This is especially important if you want to understand how Hibernate generates SQL for such features as collections and lazy loading of data. This chapter describes how to gather performance metrics for the use of Hibernate in the field.

Finding and Solving Problems

Hibernate affords a basic SQL monitoring capability, but for real development you are best advised to use a tool with a bit more sophistication. By definition, every interaction between your application and the database is translated through a JDBC driver. A pass-through driver is used to analyze the data. The ...

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