Package org.hibernate.persister.entity

<p> This package abstracts persistence mechanisms for entities, and defines the Hibernate runtime metamodel.

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Interface Summary

Interface	Description
AbstractEntityPersister.CacheEntryHelper	Consolidated these onto a single helper because the 2 pieces work in tandem.
AbstractEntityPersister.InclusionChecker
DiscriminatorMetadata	Provides the information needed to properly handle type discrimination in HQL queries, either by 'something.class' or 'type(something)' references.
EntityPersister	Contract describing mapping information and persistence logic for a particular strategy of entity mapping.
Joinable	Anything that can be loaded by outer join - namely persisters for classes or collections.
Loadable	Implemented by a <tt>EntityPersister</tt> that may be loaded using <tt>Loader</tt>.
Lockable	Contract for things that can be locked via a LockingStrategy.
MultiLoadOptions	Encapsulation of the options for performing a load by multiple identifiers.
OuterJoinLoadable	A <tt>EntityPersister</tt> that may be loaded by outer join using the <tt>OuterJoinLoader</tt> hierarchy and may be an element of a one-to-many association.
PropertyMapping	Contract for all things that know how to map a property to the needed bits of SQL.
Queryable	Extends the generic <tt>EntityPersister</tt> contract to add operations required by the Hibernate Query Language
SQLLoadable	A class persister that supports queries expressed in the platform native SQL dialect
UniqueKeyLoadable

Class Summary

Class	Description
AbstractEntityPersister	Basic functionality for persisting an entity via JDBC through either generated or custom SQL
AbstractPropertyMapping	Basic implementation of the PropertyMapping contract.
BasicEntityPropertyMapping
DiscriminatorType	TODO : javadoc
JoinedSubclassEntityPersister	An <tt>EntityPersister</tt> implementing the normalized "table-per-subclass" mapping strategy
NamedQueryLoader	Not really a Loader, just a wrapper around a named query.
Queryable.Declarer
SingleTableEntityPersister	The default implementation of the <tt>EntityPersister</tt> interface.
UnionSubclassEntityPersister	Implementation of the "table-per-concrete-class" or "roll-down" mapping strategy for an entity and its inheritence hierarchy.

Package org.hibernate.persister.entity Description

<p> This package abstracts persistence mechanisms for entities, and defines the Hibernate runtime metamodel. </p> <p> Strategies for persisting entities implement the <tt>EntityPersister</tt> interface. Optionally, they may implement certain additional interfaces that define contracts with various loaders. Concrete implementations in this package define the built-in inheritance mapping strategies. </p>