Hibernate 3 Features

Hibernate 3’s “Hibernate for the Enterprise” focus has built on the success of Hibernate 2 and extended it with enterprise class functionality includes following additional features

• Support for EJB 3.0 Annotations, Entity Manager, and Java Persistence API
• ORM improvements that support virtualized filtering for temporal, historical, regional, and permissioned data
• Single object to multi-table mapping, bulk update and delete by query, and the ability to override generated SQL with hand-written SQL
• JMX-enabled statistics reporting and monitoring through any JMX console
• XML binding that enables data to be represented as XML and Java objects interchangeably
• Event-driven design that enables custom event objects to be created and registered to handle auditing scenarios or cascaded behavior semantics