Summary
The purpose of this chapter was to expose the internals of Hibernate as they relate to session and entity. This should help you understand Hibernate better, design and write more elegant code, and when you encounter errors, understand the error messages clearly.
You will see a lot more sample code in later chapters, but in this chapter, we focused more on understanding Hibernate, and less on samples.
We learned about session and its behavior in various contexts. We also learned about entity, explored its lifecycle, and also learned about map types, which is a dynamic entity. Furthermore, the discussion on entity identity is very important and deserves careful attention. As discussed in this chapter, Hibernate offers a rich set of features, ...
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