THE EXPERT’S VOICE IN JAVA TECHNOLOGY Contents at a Glance About the Authors xiii About the Technical Reviewer . xv Acknowledgments . xvii Introduction xix CHAPTER 1 An Introduction to Hibernate 3 1 CHAPTER 2 Integrating and Configuring Hibernate 11 CHAPTER 3 Building a Simple Application 27 CHAPTER 4 The Persistence Life Cycle . 63 CHAPTER 5 An Overview of Mapping . 79 CHAPTER 6 Mapping with Annotations . 93 CHAPTER 7 Creating Mappings with Hibernate XML Files 139 CHAPTER 8 Using the Session 179 CHAPTER 9 Searches and Queries 193 CHAPTER 10 Advanced Queries Using Criteria 213 CHAPTER 11 Filtering the Results of Searches 225 APPENDIX A More Advanced Features . 233 APPENDIX B Hibernate Tools . 265 APPENDIX C Hibernate and Spring . 299 APPENDIX D Upgrading from Hibernate 2 . 313 INDEX . 319 iii