Summary … Note that the Hibernate extension for cascade orphan deletion isn t available in this case. 6.5 Summary You re probably a little overwhelmed by all the new concepts we introduced in this chapter. You may have to read it a few times, and we encourage you to try the code (and watch the SQL log). Many of the strategies and techniques we ve shown in this chapter are key concepts of object/relational mapping. If you master collection mappings, and once you ve mapped your first parent/children entity association, you ll have the worst behind you. You ll already be able to build entire applications! Table 6.1 summarizes the differences between Hibernate and Java Persistence related to concepts discussed in this chapter. Table 6.1 Hibernate and JPA comparison chart for chapter 6 Hibernate Core Java Persistence and EJB 3.0 Hibernate provides mapping support for sets, lists, maps, bags, identifier bags, and arrays. All JDK collection interfaces are supported, and extension points for custom persistent collections are available. Standardized persistent sets, lists, maps, and bags are supported. Collections of value types and components are supported. Hibernate Annotations is required for collections of value types and embeddable objects. Parent/children entity relationships are supported, with transitive state cascading on associations per operation. You can map entity associations and enable transitive state cascading on associations per operation.
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