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.

This article explains three techniques for generating primary keys when using Hibernate and Oracle.