Beginning Hibernate: For Hibernate 5

© Joseph B. Ottinger, Jeff Linwood and Dave Minter 2016

Joseph B. Ottinger, Jeff Linwood and Dave Minter, Beginning Hibernate, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2319-2_4

4. The Persistence Life Cycle

Joseph B. Ottinger¹ , Jeff Linwood² and Dave Minter³

(1)Youngsville, North Carolina, USA

(2)Austin, Texas, USA

(3)London, UK

In this chapter, we discuss the life cycle of persistent objects in Hibernate. These persistent objects can be POJOs without any special marker interfaces or inheritance related to Hibernate. Part of Hibernate’s popularity comes from its ability to work with a normal object model.

We are also going to cover some of the methods of the Session interface that are used for creating, retrieving, updating, and deleting persistent objects from Hibernate. ...