Tutorial: Developing a Hibernate Application

This tutorial shows you how to use Workshop to build real-time Hibernate-based web applications.

Hibernate is an open-source ORM solution for Java applications. Hibernate provides data query and retrieval facilities that significantly reduce development time. Hibernate lets you develop persistent classes following an object-oriented idiom - including association, inheritance, polymorphism, composition, and collections. Hibernate allows you to express queries in its own portable SQL extension (HQL), as well as in native SQL, or with an object-oriented Criteria and Example API.

This tutorial provides step by step instructions as related to Hibernate but for minor differences, could also be used with Kodo. (The Kodo Persistence API is based on the Apache open source project OpenJPA).

The tutorial describes how to

• Create a web application project
• Create a database connection to any industry-standard database
• Browse and analyze database artifacts, and review their properties using DbXplorer
• Review database diagram using DbXaminer
• Retrieve data from the database tables using DbXaminer
• Manage data in database tables using DbXaminer
• Generate O/R mappings using Hibernate ORM Generation wizard
• Use the HQL Editor
• View and manage Hibernate Persistent Entities using the Hibernate Entities Editor
• Define and manage Hibernate application configurations using Hibernate Configurations Editor
• Create server configurations and run the web application

This tutorial also explains the Workshop concepts and features

• Synchronized, split-pane source and visual (WYSIWYG) editor for Hibernate mappings and configuration files
• Code completion
• Real-time error checking
• Use of the Property Sheet to display and edit all the properties of Hibernate Persistent Entities
• Use of Smart Editor to easily and efficiently set standard properties of Hibernate Persistent Entities
• Support for many standard application servers

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