Working with the table per class hierarchy strategy of inheritance
Java is an object-oriented programming language, and while working with the object-oriented paradigm, one thing comes to our mind: inheritance. We form a real-world scenario using IS A and HAS A relationships. Inheritance is supported by many languages, but relational databases are unable to understand the relationship of inheritance. Hibernate provides a way to map real-time relationships to the database.
Hibernate provides multiple strategies to achieve such a relationship for relational databases. There are three inheritance mapping strategies defined in hibernate:
- Table per class hierarchy
- Table per subclass
- Table per concrete class
Getting ready
In this recipe, we will take a look ...
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