Hibernate 4

Hibernate 4 is the latest release of popular Hibernate framework.

Hibernate 4

Hibernate 4

Hibernate 4 is the latest version of Hibernate which was released in Jan, 2012. Hibernate 4 comes with many new features such as Multi-tenancy support. Hibernate is popular ORM tool in Java. It can be used with the JPA to persist, update, query and delete the persistence objects.

Here are the major features of Hibernate 4:

  • Multi-tenancy support
  • The introduction of the "Services" API
  • Better logging with i18n support and message codes. It is done via JBoss Logging instead of slf4j.
  • Preparation for OSGI support
  • In Hibernate 4 there are several other cleanups/removal of deprecated code

You can also migrate your Hibernate 3 code to Hibernate 4.

Brief features of Hibernate 4:

  • support for initial multi-tenancy
  • ServiceRegistry Introduction
  • SessionFactory session clean up
  • Improvement in Integration through org.hibernate.integrator.spi.Integrator and auto discovery
  •  Improvement in logging due to i18n support and message codes
  •  more clear separation between API
  • SPI and implementation classes
  •  deprecated functions
  • classes clean up

Where to learn Hibernate 4?

You can learn Hibernate 4 from our website. We have give many examples on Hibernate 4. All the examples are supported with the source code which can be downloaded from the same tutorial page. You will find download at the end of tutorial page.

Learn Hibernate 4 with the help of following tutorials:

We hope you will find all these tutorials on Hibernate 4 very useful.

Tutorials

  1. Why hibernate is used?
  2. Hibernate Native SQL Example
  3. Hibernate Update Query
  4. Hibernate Delete Query
  5. Hibernate Count Query
  6. Writing First Hibernate Code
  7. Running First Hibernate 3.0 Example
  8. Hibernate Book
  9. Understanding Hibernate O/R Mapping
  10. Using Hibernate to generate id incrementally
  11. Hibernate Query Language
  12. Preparing table for HQL Examples
  13. Writing ORM for Insurance table
  14. HQL from clause Example
  15. Hibernate Select Clause
  16. HQL Where Clause Example
  17. Hibernate Architecture
  18. HQL Group By Clause Example
  19. hibernateTemplate-Order Results
  20. Hibernate Criteria Query Example
  21. Hibernate How To
  22. Hibernate Quickly
  23. Hibernate 3.1.2 Released
  24. HQL Order By Example
  25. Hibernate 3.1.3 Released
  26. Hibernate 3.1.1 Released
  27. Introduction to Hibernate 3.0
  28. Complete Hibernate 3.0 and Hibernate 4 Tutorial
  29. Hibernate Avg() Function (Aggregate Functions)
  30. Hibernate Max() Function (Aggregate Functions)
  31. Hibernate Min() Function (Aggregate Functions)
  32. Hibernate Criteria Expression (eq)
  33. Hibernate Criteria Expression (lt)
  34. Hibernate Criteria Expression (le)
  35. Hibernate Criteria Expression (gt)
  36. Hibernate Criteria Expression (ge)
  37. Hibernate Criteria Expression (and)
  38. Hibernate Criteria Expression (or)
  39. Hibernate Projections (rowCount or countDistinct)
  40. Hibernate Projection Count