Hibernate JPA Training Course questions

[paul nisset]

Hi ,
I have a couple questions about the course.
How extensively does the course cover mapping relationships in terms of when to use one to many versus many to one relationships?
Does the course just cover the basics or does it go into issues like resolving the efficiency of sql calls that Hibernate generates ?

thanks,
Paul

[Richard Chesterwood]

Hi Paul,

Yes we explore both 1-Many, Many-1 and in particular the problems in choosing between uni-directional and bi-directional mappings (which I think addresses your question about whether to use 1-many or many-1). I believe bi-directional relationships are the most common cause of confusion in Hibernate/JPA so we devote plenty of time to it.

We talk a lot about performance and efficiency, the final third of the course is pretty deep, with material that basic courses wouldn't cover, such as Criteria API, Locking, Lazy Initialisation and Second Level Cache.

I hope that helps, good luck in the competition!

Richard.

[paul nisset]

Thanks Richard.
It sounds like a good course.