Spring Cookbook

Using Hibernate for powerful object persistence and querying

In this recipe, you will learn how to use Hibernate with Spring. We'll use a MySQL database.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we'll use a MySQL database with the user table:

CREATE TABLE user (
  id int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  first_name text,
  age int DEFAULT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (id)
);

We'll use this corresponding JPA-annotated domain class:

@Entity
@Table(name = "user")
public class User {

  @Id
  @GeneratedValue
  private Long id;
  
  @Column(name = "first_name")
  private String firstName;
  
  private Integer age;
  
  // getters and setters.. 

For more information about the Java Persistence API (JPA), go to: http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/tutorial/doc/bnbpz.html.

How to do it…

Here are the steps to integrate Hibernate ...