This tutorial builds on the example presented in a previous tutorial. Here we will explore the difference between the Hibernate second-level cache and the standard query cache and how the two can be used in conjunction to reduce the number of database transactions in an application.

This tutorial presents an exploration of the Hibernate second-level cache. By the end, we will have the tools to integrate Ehcache into a web application and to expire its entries at fixed, regular intervals using the Quartz scheduler to run a Spring batch process.

This tutorial is an exploration of mapping Hibernate entities that do not correspond directly to database tables onto structures such as views or query results.

This article is an exploration of composition and inheritance relationships with Hibernate and Spring. The article begins with boilerplate project setup using Maven2 and presents individual examples of one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-many relationships, as well as one way to map inheritance to a database schema. JUnit tests emphasize the interesting features of these relationships. By the end of the tutorial, we will have a framework and the tools for building more complex domains from these simple models.