Package org.hibernate.persister.collection

<p> This package abstracts the persistence mechanism for collections.

See: Description

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
CollectionPersister	A strategy for persisting a collection role.
QueryableCollection	A collection role that may be queried or loaded by outer join.
SQLLoadableCollection

Class Summary

Class	Description
AbstractCollectionPersister	Base implementation of the <tt>QueryableCollection</tt> interface.
BasicCollectionPersister	Collection persister for collections of values and many-to-many associations.
CollectionPropertyMapping
CollectionPropertyNames	The names of all the collection properties.
CompositeElementPropertyMapping
ElementPropertyMapping
NamedQueryCollectionInitializer	A wrapper around a named query.
OneToManyPersister	Collection persister for one-to-many associations.

Package org.hibernate.persister.collection Description

<p> This package abstracts the persistence mechanism for collections. </p> <p> Concrete implementations of <tt>CollectionPersister</tt> define strategies for persistence of particular collection roles. Collection persisters may optionally implement <tt>QueryableCollection</tt> if they should be queryable using HQL or loaded using <tt>OuterJoinLoader</tt>. </p>