Package org.hibernate.persister.entity

This package abstracts persistence mechanisms for entities, and defines the Hibernate runtime metamodel.

See: Description

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
AbstractEntityPersister.CacheEntryHelper	Consolidated these onto a single helper because the 2 pieces work in tandem.
AbstractEntityPersister.InclusionChecker
DiscriminatorMetadata	Provides the information needed to properly handle type discrimination in HQL queries, either by 'something.class' or 'type(something)' references.
EntityPersister	Implementors define mapping and persistence logic for a particular strategy of entity mapping.
Joinable	Anything that can be loaded by outer join - namely persisters for classes or collections.
Loadable	Implemented by a EntityPersister that may be loaded using Loader.
Lockable	Contract for things that can be locked via a LockingStrategy.
OuterJoinLoadable	A EntityPersister that may be loaded by outer join using the OuterJoinLoader hierarchy and may be an element of a one-to-many association.
PropertyMapping	Abstraction of all mappings that define properties: entities, collection elements.
Queryable	Extends the generic EntityPersister contract to add operations required by the Hibernate Query Language
SQLLoadable	A class persister that supports queries expressed in the platform native SQL dialect
UniqueKeyLoadable

Class Summary

Class	Description
AbstractEntityPersister	Basic functionality for persisting an entity via JDBC through either generated or custom SQL
AbstractPropertyMapping	Basic implementation of the PropertyMapping contract.
BasicEntityPropertyMapping
DiscriminatorType	TODO : javadoc
JoinedSubclassEntityPersister	An EntityPersister implementing the normalized "table-per-subclass" mapping strategy
NamedQueryLoader	Not really a Loader, just a wrapper around a named query.
Queryable.Declarer
SingleTableEntityPersister	The default implementation of the EntityPersister interface.
UnionSubclassEntityPersister	Implementation of the "table-per-concrete-class" or "roll-down" mapping strategy for an entity and its inheritence hierarchy.

Package org.hibernate.persister.entity Description

This package abstracts persistence mechanisms for entities, and defines the Hibernate runtime metamodel.

Strategies for persisting entities implement the EntityPersister interface. Optionally, they may implement certain additional interfaces that define contracts with various loaders. Concrete implementations in this package define the built-in inheritance mapping strategies.