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In his book "Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture", Martin Fowler talks about persistence patterns which are commonly found in software development and particularly in relation to ORMs.
Is there a pattern that Hibernate adheres to most closely?
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The JPA, short for Java Persistence API, is part of the Java EE 5 specification and has been implemented by Hibernate, TopLink, EclipseLink, OpenJPA, and a number of other object-relational mapping (ORM) frameworks.
Hibernate is an open source object relational mapping (ORM) tool that provides a framework to map object-oriented domain models to relational databases for web applications. Object relational mapping is based on the containerization of objects and the abstraction that provides that capacity.
How hibernate uses proxy pattern: Hibernate uses proxy pattern to lazy load entities. For lazy loaded entity or collection, hibernate defers database hit till any property other than identifier (Property marked with @Id) is accessed. The proxy object which hibernate creates has only identifier value set.
Hibernate has a layered architecture which helps the user to operate without having to know the underlying APIs. Hibernate makes use of the database and configuration data to provide persistence services (and persistent objects) to the application.
Hibernate make use of several patterns:
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